Moggie in a flap!..

[Brian Gaff]

You will probably find the first one was not immune to bad tempered moggy spray.

Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Maybe you need a manx cat to avoid the tail issue.

Brian

[ARW]

Which is the smartest cat?

I have two cats. One sits at the food dish and crys when it is hungry and the other one sits and crys at the cupboard the cat food tins are kept in when it is hungry.

Adam

Brian Gaff wrote:

[Bob Eager]

That'sd what we had. The catches (Pet Mate use red and green catches) are easily replaceable.

We got the electronic one as we wanted to let one cat out - but not the other.

[Gazz]

You could always make your own cat facial recognition cat flap...

site is old.. i read about first it back in 2007 or so, and i am getting some photo's and 'next' icons missing, but can still navigate the site to see how they did it.... i keep saying i'll make something similar, as one of our cats is a bugger for bringing mice in to play with at about 3am.

[Mathew Newton]

James Winsoar.

Yes. There was also going to be a PC interface to enabling monitoring of who was in/out, and presumably control it also but I suspect all those plans went astray once they were bought out.

Mathew

[Bob Eager]

That's it!

I tried to get hold of a release date just after the buyout. Anyway, the Pet Mate one worked well, so no matter.

We did lose one tag (but we lost the cat and collar too). She was missing for eight weeks, having gone out at 4.20 a.m. one morning (as the flap told us). Lost collar soon after, was taken in, her chip didn't scan, kept for a while, vaccinated, and eventually taken in for spaying. This time the chip scanned (I suspect because she kept still under the anaesthetic) and we got her back the same day.

[The Other Mike]

The one that posts the CCTV videos to Youtube...

[usenet2012]

In message , tony sayer writes

Had a Petporte one which lasted just over a year before dying. Had lots of clever options like becoming in-only at dusk and usefully ran from a wallwart but seemed cheaply made with the circuit board & workings unprotected under the cover.

Now have a Sure Flap which has just the basic options, only runs on batteries but which is much more solid.

Chip programming is easy on both and recognition is reliable though both say you should clean around the tunnel area regularly.

Our cats both got used to the click really quickly. In terms of draught-proofing since the flap is locked unless a cat is passing through the flap is held closed and minimises draughts.

[John Burnham]

Or you could try to produce the chromatically selective cat flap (and

1000 Megaton Earth-Orbital peace-keeping bomb) that Arthur Pedrick patented: J

[Dave Liquorice]

Looking at the pictures of the SureFlap is that a brush strip around the door edge?

[usenet2012]

Yes. The first version didn't have that & did leak air. I bought direct from them to ensure I got the updated version.

[tony sayer]

In article , tony sayer scribeth thus

Thanks to all who replied. Looks like we'll investigate the Sureflap a bit further..

Cheers...

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

[Alex Selby]

We have a Sureflap, and we're happy with it: it opens when it should and not when it shouldn't, and it feels robust. It's in a cool area already (an outhouse/back conservatory) so I'm not sure about the draughtiness, but it looks about as snugly fitting as you could reasonably expect, given that it has got to be openable by a cat.

Just one thing: it's not enormously big. Probably OK for all small to medium size cats, but if you have a particularly large cat then obviously check he/she will go through it first.