Catit PIXI Smart Cat Water Fountain

Cats have a fairly direct relationship with drinking water: it should be fresh, accessible and preferably not sitting in the same sad bowl it occupied during last Tuesday’s administrative collapse. The Catit PIXI Smart Fountain tackles that domestic reality with a 2 L reservoir, circulating water and a little more supervision than a standard bowl can muster without acquiring Bluetooth and a project manager.

The clever bit is not merely that it has an app. The PIXI app can control the pump remotely, set timers and energy-saving mode, trigger UV-C clarification manually, share access and send status or maintenance alerts. That makes it a sensible option for people who do remember pet care, obviously, but also occasionally leave the house in a rush clutching a tote bag, one shoe and a profound sense of having forgotten something.

Catit has also avoided treating all cats as identical tiny executives with one beverage preference. The fountain can run as an arched stream with its spout, a bubbling top with stream, or a gently flowing pool in the stainless-steel bowl. We think that degree of choice is genuinely useful in a product category where the customer may refuse a perfectly reasonable arrangement for reasons known only to themselves and the moon.

This is a more involved proposition than topping up a ceramic dish. It needs 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, uses filters and has pump maintenance to keep track of. Yet the backlit level window, status lights and dishwasher-safe stainless-steel top give the admin a clear purpose: fewer opportunities for the water situation to become another invisible household job until it is suddenly very visible indeed.