Laundry care appliance having an outer tub for receiving washing liquid, wherein the outer tub has a discharge opening and an inlet element, a pump apparatus for pumping the washing liquid, a discharge pipe which fluidically connects the discharge opening to the pump apparatus, a drain pipe, which fluidically connects the pump apparatus to an outer region of the laundry care appliance, wherein the pump apparatus has a first pump, which is embodied to drain washing liquid from the outer tub through the discharge opening, through the drain pipe and through the discharge pipe out of the laundry care appliance, and a controller for controlling the pump apparatus, wherein the controller is embodied to activate the first pump of the pump apparatus for pumping the washing liquid, in order to pump washing liquid up to a liquid level in the drain pipe, wherein the laundry care appliance is embodied with a recirculation pipe, which fluidically connects the pump apparatus to the inlet element, wherein the pump apparatus has a second pump which is embodied to pump washing liquid from the outer tub through the discharge opening and through the discharge pipe into the recirculation pipe and to supply the washing liquid from the recirculation pipe and through the inlet element again to the outer tub, wherein the controller is embodied, in a first time segment, to activate one of the pumps (125-1, 125-2) of the pump apparatus to pump the washing liquid, in order to pump washing liquid up to the liquid level in the drain pump or up to a liquid level in the recirculation pipe, and wherein the controller is embodied, in a second time segment which follows the first time segment, to activate the other of the pumps (125-1, 125-2) of the pump apparatus to pump the washing liquid, in order to pump the washing liquid out of the respective drain pipe or recirculation pipe and to pump the pumped washing liquid up to a liquid level (135-1, 135-2) in the respective other drain pipe or recirculation pipe, wherein the controller is embodied, in the second time segment which follows the first time segment, to deactivate the one of the pumps (125-1, 125-2) of the pump apparatus, characterised in that the controller is embodied, after terminating the second time segment, to repeat the first time segment and the second time segment which follows the first time segment, in order to pump the washing liquid through the pumps (125-1, 125-2) of the pump apparatus alternately to and fro between the liquid level in the drain pipe and the liquid level in the recirculation pipe, wherein the controller is embodied in particular to periodically repeat the first and second time segment (143-1, 143-2) in order to pump the washing liquid to and fro periodically alternately between the liquid level in the drain pipe and the liquid level in the recirculation pipe by pumping (125-1, 125-2) the pump apparatus. the controller is embodied, in a first time segment, to activate one of the pumps (125-1, 125-2) of the pump apparatus to pump the washing liquid, in order to pump washing liquid up to the liquid level in the drain pump or up to a liquid level in the recirculation pipe, and wherein the controller is embodied, in a second time segment which follows the first time segment, to activate the other of the pumps (125-1, 125-2) of the pump apparatus to pump the washing liquid, in order to pump the washing liquid out of the respective drain pipe or recirculation pipe and to pump the pumped washing liquid up to a liquid level (135-1, 135-2) in the respective other drain pipe or recirculation pipe, wherein the controller is embodied, in the second time segment which follows the first time segment, to deactivate the one of the pumps (125-1, 125-2) of the pump apparatus, characterised in that the controller is embodied, after terminating the second time segment, to repeat the first time segment and the second time segment which follows the first time segment, in order to pump the washing liquid through the pumps (125-1, 125-2) of the pump apparatus alternately to and fro between the liquid level in the drain pipe and the liquid level in the recirculation pipe, wherein the controller is embodied in particular to periodically repeat the first and second time segment (143-1, 143-2) in order to pump the washing liquid to and fro periodically alternately between the liquid level in the drain pipe and the liquid level in the recirculation pipe by pumping (125-1, 125-2) the pump apparatus.