Cat flaps

[Dancergirl]

Well our adopted cat is now settled in and going in and out with no problems. She uses the small bathroom window for access which we generally leave open. But I think we now need a catflap.

I was looking at this one:

www.sureflap.co.uk/

that only lets your cat in. It's expensive though. Has anyone got one of these and is it worth the money?

I have one and it's fantastic - we had problems with next door's cats coming into our house so decided it was worth the money to keep them out. The feckers were eating our cat's food and a couple of times one of them got stuck in our house because the catflap was on inwards lock (to keep our cat in at night once he'd come home) - it actually destroyed the old catflap by ramming it to get out in a panic.

We talked about this on The Litter Tray a little while ago here's a link. We have the Sureflap and it's very good, worth the money (note, though, if your door has a double-glazed panel in it, it will be far cheaper to replace it with an opaque material with a hole in than to have a double-glazed panel made with a cat flap in it, which is what I did - because I didn't want to lose the natural light).

Our Sureflap was worth it - don't think we're going through less food now, but no one's pissing in the house!

It's a bit on the small side though. Our cats are about 5kg apiece, they struggle a bit, although that's mainly cos it's a tunnel setup, through a wall, but I do imagine a really big bruiser of a cat might have problems.