PetSafe, Microchip Activated Cat Flap, Exclusive Entry, Easy Install, 4 Way Manual Locking, Energy Efficient, Draught Excluder, Convenient - White

My 13 year old cat as always had the leisure of swanning in and out as she pleases however this involved the door being open at all times. We installed a large dog flap for our puppy and the cat would use that stealthily avoiding the bouncy XL puppy... 3 years later and having to say goodnight to our beloved puppy we were faced with a larger hole in the backdoor than required and found neighbouring cats were frequenting our home and often acting like they owned the place.Cue the microchip flap!!!What a god send! No more having to shoo the neighbours cats out and our old girl can come and go as she pleases again.Now for the down side, whilst the cat was confident in using a much larger flap previously. She wasn't as keen with this one. When it reads the microchip it makes a loud click which put her off using it. We tried everything, treats, food, even cheese (which is her favourite thing in the whole world) she just would not enter through it once it clicked. I even held it open in both directions for her, to which we achieved she would leave the house through it but still would not come back in because of the click, often choosing to sit outside the door calling to come in.It's been about 6 weeks now and she's finally grasped it, pretty much giving her no choice as we went on away for a few days, leaving a friend to take care of her food needs whilst we were away.24 hours after our return she has decided she can do it without someone having to hold the door or push her through from the outside (because that was starting to get tedious).Now I can settle knowing that she can take herself out to toilet and return without my help.My old lady is approx same size as a young adult cat, so not sure if this size would suit larger adults. However the door is secure and easy to use. It fits very well and is pretty sturdy for being plastic. The door closes securely although you can hear it in use from the next room, the wind doesn't blow it open and no heat is lost from the home in the colder months.It has 4 locking functions, in, out, in/out and locked. Easy to program to the cat's microchip (easier to do before fitting to door and may require a helping hand if your cat is extra anxious).Best thing I ever bought, besides our beautiful old girl.

I've had this in place now for 1 year and it works brilliantly. Installing this was fairly simple with the templates included for cutting out hole. I'm fairly competent at these sort of things but found it much easier than other simple non microchip cat flaps. It's a robust, strong built cat flap and looks good when in place.Setting up the Microschip recogition was super simple and definitely do this before you install it as so much easier to handle your cat together with this when you can move both.So far I've not changed the batteries (1 year in).Overall excellent product.

We have 2 young cats, this was working well for one of them but not the other. Had to have one of the cats re chipped for it to work. Old chip possibly too far back to activate the reader. Once this was done, working well for both cats. It does make a noise when they come back in but they have got used to it.

I've used the Petsafe catflap for over 5 years. I moved house and put a new one in last November (4 months ago). They are very reliable and can be installed by any competant handyman but you do have to cut the large holes to fit it. Once fitted you have to then program the flap to allow access to just the chip that is in your cat. That can be tricky because you have to put it in program mode and then get your cat to go through it. Definitely do this BEFORE fitting the catflap because cats don't like being forced to go through! It uses 4 AA batteries and they last me about 5 months but I have 2 cats, maybe they last longer if you only have 1 cat. At £48 I think its a bargain and would definitely recommend it.

Overall a good pet door for any material door except those that contain metal, our door has aluminium on either side which means it doesn't realease the lock after detecting our cats microchip.Purchased this to replace our existing pet door because we had a stray cat visiting during the night. It was easy to programme and read our cats chip and worked perfectly well releaseing the locking mechanism before installing but after being put in place using the recommended adaptor for metal doors the lock no longer releases. It's extremely sensitive to the metal, we've had to stick the plastic locks in the unlocked position to enable our cat to come in from outside and because the surrounding adepter plate is bigger than our old pet door we're not able to replace with our old one. Very disappointed.

Bought this as a Warehouse RE-SALE PRODUCT. It arrived in a sturdy box replacing the original packaging. The contents were unopened and therefore complete and totally without any damage or scratches. I thought that it was not working as I tried to get it to register the microchip in my cats neck before getting it fitted to a more suitable replacement panel in my door and it would not register. There were 2 possible reasons, either the appliance was damaged or there was an issue with the microchip implant in my cat. I took the cat to the vet to scan for the microchip. The chip had actually migrated from the neck between his shoulders and was down the flank of his left side. The vet had to carefully scan to detect it so she agreed that we could have a second chip placed in these circumstances. I had the vet register the chip to the flap before implanting it to avoid further distress to the cat and it registered and she then double checked by testing with the actual cat. All worked extremely well so we are now having our double glazed panel replaced with a Rosewood grained panel to match the door and having the flap fitted in it. It is therefore important to check if the problem is actually to do with the chip and its location, as opposed to the flap being at fault. I am delighted to have been able to purchase this via Amazon re-sale.NOTE ALSO THAT YOU CAN CROSS-CHECK THE UNIQUE CODE FOR YOUR CATS MICROCHIP ON THIS CAT FLAP WEBSITE LINK AND IT WILL CONFIRM IF YOUR CHIP IS COMPATIBLE.