Okay it's a pan that holds water. Who wants to spend 25 bucks on a pan that holds water ? Well ME I do✋️ Here's why, Hazel here has a water drinking disability. She fills the mouth up full and let's it sloooowly flow out into a very impressive kitchen lake puddle to which she finds it very comfortable to lay in most times or finds it entertaining when the hoomans do the splits in it. We are old the splits don't work out for us anymore. When Hazel is excited Hazel likes to drag, dig and watch the bubbles from the the gravity water deal we had. I came home one day to find the entire 3 gallon water feeder on her dog bed and water all over. She really had it out for that thing. So..It was time. I scoured amazon. I looked at those expensive ones with the deals inside to "calm" aggressive drinkers and 50 bucks and up, mixed reviews. I priced the fountain type even more expensive not great reviews. When your in the situation we're in it's literally trial and error and who has money to spend wasting on trial and errors. I decided to spend 25 bucks on a pan. It's pricey to me I didn't check walmart,sams or resturant shops, kinda wish I had this is basically a food service pan. Sometimes it's good to just splurge on convenience, and 25 is better than 50. I figured if it don't serve the purpose I intended I could still use it for something else. In oppose to a expensive drinking system that don't work it would end up a donated waste. I got a small chenille very absorbent rug, also amazon for like 14 bucks. So 40 bucks I have a 3 gallon fairly deep and good width water pan and rug. It has cleared up almost all issues. I no longer have to trash my good towels or keep a mop close by. I keep a good 3 inches from the top so it's not flooding out the sides when she guzzles. So it does have to be changed and filled every two days. The gravity I couldnt fill at all so now I can help hubs with the dog water chores. He LOVES that. The dogs get fresher water more often. The interest in grabbing, scratching, terrorizing the water bowl has stopped completely. The rug picks up what flows out and so far it's never been drenched. It dries quickly aswell. It's been down for a month and I haven't even washed it yet. My floors are no longer wet and trashed and dangerous. Every now and then with excitement there will be some water that passes the rug but nothing like before. I'm happy with this system. It looks fairly okay and neat. Redoing the house so I will move this into the Landry room where it's out of sight but in the meantime I don't mind looking at it. The problems are solved. Happy with the purchases.