How do you use your burgler alarm with a cat?

[Dancergirl]

I need to get this sorted, dh is not happy.

We adopted our beautiful much loved cat from CP a couple of years ago, me and the dds all love her to bits, dh however is indifferent.

We haven't been able to use our burglar alarm in that time as I'm worried the cat will set it off. I have talked briefly to our alarm people and they said something about 'pet friendly' sensors, what are these?

Does your cat have unrestricted access to the whole house when you go out, or do you shut doors? She goes out a lot and we have her food bowls in the utility room where there is also a cat flap in the external door. BUT she won't use it and prefers the bathroom window instead!

We have sensors on doors/windows rather than infra red ones for this reason. Sorry not helpful!

At old house we shut the downstairs doors and omitted the hallway sensor when setting the alarm so cats had run of upstairs. That was when they were house cats though (cat killer dog next door).

I think you can get filters for infra red detectors that reduce their sensitivity so the cats won't set it off.

Oh, and we still shut doors (for the fire risk) but have cat flaps in internal doors to allow access to flap/tray/food in utility room. But leave bedroom doors open, natch.

I have pet sensors in the the hall, landing, kitchen and utility room, the other rooms, with ordinary sensors, are shut up when we go out/go to bed. My cats have never set them off.

The one cat I have left , got left in the living room this morning! I closed the door and set the alarm when I went out. That room does not have a pet sensor, just an ordinary one.

However she is an old lady, over 18 years old, and fairly light weight, so she didn't set it off, phew! Mind you her face was a picture when I got home after an hour.

I like this arrangement as I have the cat flap is in the utility back door, so basically the cat has the run of the house, but the alarm is on.