We went through a recent transition with water dishes, but I haven't gone down the road of the "fountains".....the first water dish for Ritz was one of those plastic/ceramic looking things...actually food and water dish were exactly the same size and shape. Food dish, fine. Water dish, however was subject daily to a ritual we will still never understand.

These bowls had a slight lip around the rim - one that Ritz would latch onto with her teeth, then proceed to flip the whole bowl over onto the floor and paw around in the subsequent puddle...and I think even manage to drink some of it.

We nailed the bowl to a piece of wood big enough that she had to step on it to get a drink...problem solved (once I posted a picture of this ingenious contraption).

I decided, however, that it looked too "early duct tape" for our remaining decor, so the other day I upgraded the food bowls to larger, smooth-sided models.....seem to be a hit so far.

I am afraid to try the fountain thing - Ritz likes to "baste" her toy mice in water, then pick them out and dunk them into the food bowl, but sometimes they remain "floaters"....she also likes to drop bits of kibble in the water, but I think this is accidental. Not sure how this would work with a running fountain, and I'm thinking if her water moved she might treat it like one of her toys(not a pretty thought)

She also has a midnight habit of flinging her LARGE stuffed mouse around (picks up in her teeth then flings it up in the air, where it lands....welll, as Murphy's law dictates, is often in the middle of the water dish). I'm thinking this would be equivalent to flushing a whole roll of toilet paper.....more mess.

She takes each bite of kibble and occasionally does what we call "picnicking" - takes one kibble in the mouth, carries it to another part of the kitchen, with her back to us, and eats it, then repeats, always taking the pieces to different spots. I think sometimes on the way to her picnic spot, she drops the piece in the water..

T&P's mom, Ritz also "paws" at the water first before actually drinking. Dip, lick, dip lick...then lap.

The water glasses made me chuckle because it reminded me of the glass of iced tea incident this past summer. We had a glass of tea that was set down to retrieve other plate of food, and came back to find Ritz sitting with one paw around the glass and the other leg completely buried into the glass, like she was either trying to stir it or catch one of the cubes....still don't know what that was about, but what a mess!