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| 2.25 inches | | Product Width:
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| 11.25 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.1 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 7 reviews |
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4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 don't buy, agree, drips!Jan 09, 2010
By Neil in Oakland
"Oakland Dad"
Wish i'd read the other review first (my bad!). completely correct; product doesn't hold it's water at all, drips continually so that within a few hours a) the hutch is drenched and b) the rabbit's out of water. horrible! amazon shouldn't offer this product at all!
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Don't buyOct 22, 2009
By K. Yi
This product has 2 flaws. 1. It does not attach easily to a wire crate, even with the spring attachment hanger. 2. It is not drip resistant. It drips from the very first fill. I thought it had stopped, but when I got home at the end of the day, the entire bottle had leaked out into the cage.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Save your pet !!Nov 04, 2010
By Dru
We did not buy these from Amazon, BUT we tried two of these for our pet chinchillas. Not good at all.
They either drip incessantly or prevent any water flow - sounds strange, but it's true of both bottles we had.
If you have one of these for your pet please check levels daily - it's pretty obvious if it drips, but not so if the poor little critters are getting no water.
Based on our experience look for a different bottle.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Don't Buy It DripsMay 05, 2010
By Please Recycle
"Green Girl"
Drips continually until out of water. Not just an occasional drip but empty within 2-3 hours. Have attached it to the cage in many different ways and removed the little duck that floated inside, still doesn't help .. still drip drip drip.... When I read the other reviews I ordered anyway thinking "I've never had that problem before these people must be doing something wrong." Nope... it drips it drips it drips... I really have no idea how a company can put something so faulty on the market but *they did* stop dripping!
 Works okay but could easily be made a little betterOct 13, 2011
By David Morris
Bought this to replace the small 8oz bottle we got with our rabbit cage. The larger size is a great improvement, and we love the spring retention band with the clips compared to the simple piece of stiff hooked wire on the old bottle.
But there are a couple of annoying shortcomings:
* Don't like the angle on the "spout." It's too wide or obtuse. If you hold the bottle flat against the outside of the cage, the end of the spout doesn't really reach inside the cage -- it's almost even with the side of the bottle! You have to insert the spout first and lever the bottle's top end which collapses the plastic a bit near the spout (see next complaint), so the bottle doesn't actually sit flat against the cage -- the top end angles away. This could be remedied with a slightly tighter bend in the spout, maybe 5 degrees more? I thought about heating it up and trying to do this myself, but would be afraid the metal would collapse at the bend, or the heat would distort the circumference and cause a leak around the ball or around the cap.
* Plastic is very soft, causing it to collapse near the cap end where the cage bars compress it when the spring retainer pulls it tight. Again I think this is caused by the angle of the spout, which hits the cage bar underneath and applies pressure to this point when the retainer is attached. My concern is this crease in the plastic will eventually break through and leak.
* Minor gripe with the little yellow floating duck that's supposed to serve as a water level indicator. It has a disk on the bottom presumably as a ballast to make it float upright, but it's not heavy enough. So ours looks like a dead duck, always floating on its side. Not really a problem, since the actual water line is more visible to me than the duck, but my wife thought it was a cute addition until it wouldn't float upright. You can remove the duck if you don't want it.
As for those complaining of leakage, all such bottles like this I've seen will leak at first. You have to "prime" it after filling to get the vacuum to seal. After filling, hold it over the sink while you tap the ball several times. This releases some water and you'll see air bubbles rise in the bottle. After several taps it should seal and stop leaking. Problem is, again, due to the soft plastic and the angle of the spout, it's impossible to install on the cage without squeezing it, which inevitably causes some initial leakage into the cage. Have a napkin handy to catch the water while you re-prime. Once installed and primed, ours has never leaked.
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