Product Review - Classic drinking bottle
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Review 1 of 3
Place Purchased: Pets at home
Price: £1.19
Score: 9/10
Pros:
I’ve been using a Classic Hamster bottle for 2 months and it’s always worked perfectly: it’s never leaked or gotten blocked.
The bottle is transparent, which I find particularly helpful as this provides a very convenient way to check the bottle is working: I watch my mice drinking from their bottle at least once a day, and if I can see air bubbles appearing at the bottom of the bottle and rising to the top, that means water is successfully coming out of the spout. It would be very difficult, if not impossible, to see these air bubbles if the bottle wasn’t completely transparent.
Finally, the choice of 3 colours in the Colortone range means you can choose a bottle to match (or at least complement) whatever cage colour scheme you might have.
Cons:
All the cons of this water bottle apply to most other water bottles too: the wire that holds it to the cage can be a bit fiddly to attach; the bottle drips a bit as it’s being fitted due to it being shaken around; the metal ball bearing and metal spout make some noise when the bottle is being drunk from; and the spout is too large to fit between cage bars narrower than 8.5mm. And as with all water bottles, you may just be unlucky and get a bottle that leaks or gets blocked.
Overall:
I would recommend this bottle and buy it again. It’s inexpensive, it’s worked perfectly for me, and it’s the only bottle I know of that comes in a selection of colours. I’ve only marked it down 1 point because it hasn’t got a less fiddly way to attach to the cage.
Reviewer: Cub
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Review 2 of 3
Place Purchased: Pet shop
Price: -
Score: 8/10
Personally I prefer open dishes but when I have used a bottle to provide extra water I found this make to be better than some of the more expensive ones. Used properly it is easy to attach and fairly drip-less.
Reviewer: Tagalong
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Review 3 of 3
Place Purchased: Notcutts
Price: £1
Score: 10/10
The best thing you can get for “watering” your mice! They are cheap and last ages in two respects: they stay together for a long long time and the water in them lasts ages providing you get one big enough! I have never once had a problem with one although I have heard of the little ball bearing getting stuck. You can get a “clip on” one for cages or a “sucker” one for tanks, and both are the same great quality!
Reviewer: AdorableMouse
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