Using Cat Flaps

By Gail Rich

If you decide to have a house cat you may want to consider investing in one or two cat flaps depending on the size of your house. Cat flaps take away the need to get up and down to let your cat in, and make for a more peaceful life, and a happier cat that enjoys his freedom.

However, they are complicated enough to install that you want a professional do the job for you in order to ensure that the cat flap will be well installed and that it won't let water in when it rains.

Attention to Thieves

It's important to make sure that installing a cat door doesn't make it easier for burglars to break into your house by uninstalling them or by any other method. That why a lot of people prefer to place cat doors in the lowest part of their doors, which also lets the car get in the house by walking through it, instead of having to jump or climb.

Although of course, nobody expects a burglar to shrink to the size of a cat and use the door to get in, if cat doors were a bit higher, they could try to use them to reach in and go for the handle.

Not Your Cat

Pay attention; although burglars and thieves can't go inside your house using cat doors, other cats in the neighborhood will have no problem whatsoever, and you might not want that. However, you can solve this problem by getting one of the modern cat doors which includes a locking system that can identify your cat's collar, allowing only it to come in.

Normally working on a magnet, this means that the cat flap remains locked shut if approached by another cat, but when your cat comes near, the magnet on the collar releases the cat flap lock and he is allowed to pass through - 29957

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