home depot rents out tall ladders and shit. your contractors are crap. I’m sorry
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Does anyone have a cat drinking fountain? If so, how often do you actually change or add to the water? I’m not sure where I would put it if I get one, but I know she would like it. She drinks from the bathroom faucet multiple times a day.
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I do! I add water maybe every three or four days (two cats). I clean it out once a week or so with soap and water and add new water then too. I’ve found it to be pretty low maintenance.
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I’ve got a drinkwell one with a center spigot and a bowl all the way around (originally had one with a spout down into a bowl but no matter what I did it splashed out onto the floor, but that may very well have been user error). I empty the water and scrub it out about once a week, and then change out the charcoal filter about once a month.
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Are they near the food dishes? I don’t have an outlet where her dishes are, so I would have to figure out a place for one.
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good idea. I should buy one. And a dry food dispenser. Robots…GO
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Right now I have the Catit Flower Fountain, which is entirely dishwasher safe and the big selling point for me. I add water via glass to the top maybe every three days or so? It has a pretty big “tank” at the bottom. The flower is removable if cats prefer bubble vs stream. When the water is not running low it’s pretty quiet to run.
I also had the ceramic Petsafe Pagoda fountain for a long time and my cats loved it, but I wasn’t a huge fan of how heavy it could be and it made cleaning tricky, but it was pretty straightforward to put together/take apart. The glaze finish wore off from the water streams pretty quickly creating rough spots. This fountain was also much louder than the Catit one but it was a pleasant enough sort of white noise water trickle.
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Mine is in my bathroom, not where their food is. My cats actually won’t drink water if I put it close to their food 
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Recommendations please:
Does anyone have a solar powered battery charger they like?
Also looking for just a regular “spare” battery charger (the kind you plug in and charge and then you can charge anything else into it)…
This won’t help me tomorrow, but would be good to have in the future… 
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I haven’t looked into any of the newer options, so I’m sure there are some that are more efficient, but I have a 7 year old Goal Zero solar panel and battery pack I’ve used for camping and long bike rides that still works great. It works best to charge the battery pack but I’ve also used it direct to my phone which works just dandy in sunny weather.
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Would a credit card with a limit of 10K that I never even activated and was subsequently closed a few months later for “risk” reasons be enough to ding my credit score 80+ points?
(I don’t particularly care about the score. Just trying to do my homework and make sure there’s not something else going on)
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I wouldn’t think so.
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Poop. This means I must do more digging.
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Follow up question: where do I go to get an actual credit report and not a scam?
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So, annualcreditreport is legit. But here’s the FTC’s website on all of that
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For something quick and easy, I use Chase since I have credit cards and thus an account with them:
https://www.chase.com/personal/credit-cards/chase-credit-journey
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Credit report? The one Brute linked. Credit score? I opt for checking my credit card free score options.
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Possibly? It would depend on your total credit limit. If that’s was a substantial % of your accessible credit, I would think yes.
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Credit report had no obvious issues listed. So possibly this was the big ding. 
I’ll see if the score goes up in the next few months.
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Could have been a combination of the card being closed and you happening to have a higher balance on the day the score got pulled. I know my score fluctuates about 5-10 pts just whether I’m at 0 to 3% of credit used when they pull my score.
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