lol I am actually very impressed with this thing, as a lot of people who have similer fountains have said that when the water runs low it get VERY loud, but this thing is just as silent as advertised when the water ran so low it was almost completly dry it did not make a peep pluse its got the muti-surface drinking, my dogs ove this, like the bowl itself is not flat it has differnt leveled humps inside and the wated pours down over the enitie outside of the dome, so they can drink from the bowl or from anywhere around the dome, Happy and Misty like drinking it right off the dome lol and because of the bumps the water is never left on a flat surface keeping it both cleaner and cooler.