This is an amazing addition to my life! I have two cats and they each will only drink water from their own bowls, and it must be changed multiple times a day. I wasn't sure how they would like it, or if they'd even share...but this little miracle water fountain just adopted two cats! My cats initially stared at it, however, they quickly went for it when I was out of sight. I set the water flow to a medium setting and they're both very comfortable with it. It isn't super loud and it takes up about the same amount of space a normal watering bowl would. I love that you can change out the filters and it is easy to clean. Set up was quick and the directions were very clear on how to get it going. I no longer have two watering bowls and instead just one!