KristenKish
New Member
So I have cats that love drinking out of the faucet. They also have water fountains but they get disgusting pretty quickly with it being the same water pumped over and over. I have come up with a proof of concept that uses an old water fountain. I have a motion detector plugged into a water pump that feeds it through a metal pipe that looks like a faucet. The water is coming from a big jug with a little hose in it and it just drains into the bottom of the fountain. Now you seen the issue is I don't want to constantly be filling up and emptying the water. Ideally i would like there to be a second faucet that's motion activated next to my current kitchen faucet. There's already a hole in the sink for a sprayer that I don't have installed. There is a commercially available device for cats that does this, but it's all plastic and costs $120! Is there a cheaper, better looking way to do this? I don't think the regular faucets that are advertised as motion activated would be triggered by my cats. I would need a separate sensor that I could mount in their path. Also, commercially available motion activated faucets are not cheap. Obviously my little contraption is just a temporary project and none of it has to be used in the final iteration, but the separate sensor I think is key for the cats to actually use it. They wont wave their paws in front of the faucet to turn it on haha it just has to be in their walking path.
