Do you have to have a cat flap if you have a cat?

[Kennyp]

We only have a glass patio door fir the back door so if we were out all day he/she couldnt get out. Is it possible ti have a cat without a flap? Potentially getting a cat but need to find out stuff first. Thanks.

I have a cat and no flap, but I can leave the bathroom window open all day for her.

This is fine in summer, but can bloody freeze the house out the other eleven and a half months.

By the way, there's a cat topic here, you might get more responses.

LOL

If you don't have a cat flap they just train you to let them in and out.

you can have new glass put in to include a cat flap - it does make life easier tbh.

although they still train you to open the door for them

Does anyone know of suppliers who do the pane of glass with a cat flap in it please?

I've never had a cat flap in any house I've lived in until this one. I've always had a cat. They seem to manage fine. Usually they stand at the door and shout until you let them in or out.

I have been told both that its not possible to have a cat flap in a glass door and that its possible but expensive. Obviously told by different people!

I have 2 cat flaps (nasty tom cat picks on our dc - darling cat - so we have a 2 door system so she can always escape him). Both times we had the glass panel replaced with a plastic panel that they can easily cut the hole into.

We could manage with no cat flaps, but I would feel guilty. Our cat was a treasured princess house cat in her last home - before being abandoned when a baby came along. She now lives the life of an average moggy, which I do feel a little guilty about. It was a harsh step down for her in some ways, but she is now loved rather more securely! She is however a bit of a sop, and not really an outdoorsy-I-can-take-care-of-myself sort. Just get yourself a "harder" cat than I did, and you should be able to manage without the flaps!

As far as I'm aware all the double glazing firms large and small can do this.

Dont' do what the PILS did though - they had a glass french door with a hole in for about a year, their pedigrees were damn confused once they actually got around to putting a flap in

2 cats no flap, they laze around whilst DH is at work and go out for the afternoon and early evening but home and inside before supper.