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Hey there! We were asked by the nice people at Mr. Chewy.com to try out their website and let them and the world know what we think. How cool is that? www.mrchewy.com is an online pet food retailer offering more than 70 brands of pet food, treats and supplies. Since food was involved, we encouraged mom to agree. She went online and found one of the foods we eat, Wellness Grain Free Chicken. Mom ordered and we waited.

We ended up waiting quite awhile. Mom put in our order on a Sunday and we promptly got an email confirmation of our order and letting us know it shipped. We were provided a tracking number. When mom checked out the tracking it said the package would arrive on Friday, but it did not arrive until Saturday.

The cans were in purrfect condition.

Yup, that's our stuff! Mom was particularly pleased to see such a good selection of high quality foods.

We of course loved the box.

Here's our opinion:

1. Delivery for us was slow. We think this is because the shipment came from Pennsylvania and we live in Oregon, so the food was traveling a long way. Not a big surprise that it took more time than our east coast furriends have experienced.

2. Price- for the Wellness canned food, the prices were VERY comparable to our local well priced store. We typically also buy the large cans of Tiki cat but since Mr. Chewy didn't have it (only the small cans) we couldn't compare the price on that.

3. Selection- We all thought that there was lots of wonderful foods to choose from, all the good brands that we would want. Our only issue was that mom will only buy us the large cans of everything. They had the large cans of Wellness Cat food, but did not have the large cans of Tiki. We meowed this to their representative and we will purr that it gets added to the website soon.

4. Convenience- When mom ordered our food, she was getting over being sick. She was thinking how awesome it was that she could get food delivered when she wasn't feeling well enough to go shopping. In addition, if you live in an area where you are not close to a store that stocks your favorite brands of food, getting it shipped to you is a good thing, especially since shipping is free for orders over $49.   With 9 of us kitties and a woofie, it's easy to spend over $49.

5.  Referral program-  This is awesome.  They have a referral program and our referral code is:

If you use this code when checking out, you'll get 10% off of your order (first time customers, one per household).  But that's not all!  For every new furriend that orders Mr. Chewy will donate $10 to a partner animal supporting charity. 

What's this?

Mom, is this the drinking fountain that was sent to us from Thirsty Cat Fountains?

It is!  This is cool! 

Keith, the nice man at Thirsty Cat Fountains, asked us if we'd like to try out one of his handmade drinking fountains.  We said YES!

  Before I was born, mom had tried the plastic drinking fountains that are available in the pet stores and mom said our kitties didn't like them at all.  Mom thinks the plastic fountains are quite unattractive and they got clogged up with cat hair too easily.  We were very interested in checking out a fountain that is beautiful and won't clog up.

When it arrived, mom filled it up with water and plugged it in.   She thought it was awesome that there are seashells that cover up the cords and stuff.  At first we were all super afraid of it.  I mean, mom took away our regular water bowl and replaced it with this beauty that bubbles.  It took a week for me to approach it. 

My brother Figaro dived right in.  As far as he was concerned it was love at first sight...um, drink.  Of course Figaro will jump in the sink and stands out in the pouring rain.  He likes water.

Mom loves the sound of it since it's a gentle bubbling sound.  The other thing mom loves is that it is handmade right here in the US of A.  Mom prefers to buy products locally...she likes to think she is a locavore and wants to support local or homegrown business whenever possible.  In addition, this fountain is beautiful handmade ceramic and not plastic like other popular cat fountains. 

We do drink out of it now, even though it took a couple of weeks for most of us.  The water level goes down WAY faster than our regular bowl.

We suggest giving any new food bowl, water bowl or fountain time for the family to adjust.  We were initially afraid of the fountain (except for Figaro).  Mom tried move it to various locations around the house to see what would work best.  We finally decided that it worked best where our old water bowl was.

Thank you Keith for letting us try it out.  Please go visit his Etsy site where you'll find lots of beautiful handmade ceramic fountains and food bowls.