Pet safe burglar alarm

[QueenOfIce]

Can anyone rate their animal friendly burglar alarm? So many to choose from. We have cats so need a system that doesn't kick off the alarm.

Ours is fine with our dog but we contain him to one room at night which isn't alarmed. A door contact system for just the exit doors is an option but less secure. Can you shut the cats into just one room?

No we can't shut them in they're free roaming, I'm more interested in those who have a system that has a pet friendly pir and how good theirs is. We will also have contact alarms though.

I think the smart alarms like Arlo etc have pet settings.

No idea what it was but my mother had a pet-friendly sensor in the garage where my rabbit free-roamed. She never managed to set it off. She did, however, manage to break the whole system by chewing an innocuous-looking wire than ran up the side of the room. Took the engineer two hours to figure that out!

As far as I know the sensor somehow took mass into account. I'm sure whatever is available today would be even more reliable.

I've just started setting my burglar alarm and presumably the PIR are set low enough for human movement to be detected but not high enough that the cat jumping on a chair sets it off. The system was put in when the house was built about 25 years ago so I'm sure there are much more sophisticated PIR sensors around now!

Looking at a Yale system with pet pir and contact alarms, so many to choose from!

Mine was put in years ago. The cat has free range and has never set off the sensors. They seem to be set too high to catch him as he jumps on the furniture.