Kitten and cat flap

[Libbylongtree]

A few months on from losing my beloved boy, I’m ready to become a kitten slave again.

We have a three year old cat who has use of the cat flaps all the time although at this time of year she’s indoors most of the time and every night.

Due to the house layout it wouldn’t be possible to block access for new cat but it doesn’t seem right to lock the cat flap entirely as existing cat is used to being in and out all day.

We are at work for a few hours during the day so is a crate for new cat the answer? I can’t quite get my head round locking it up! Any ideas gratefully received. Thanks

We have one that is activated by microchip so you could programme it to recognise your older cat and allow her to come and go (and you can lock it as well if you want her shut in at any point). It wouldn't let the kitten out til you added its microchip on. Ill ask DO where he got it from but it's battery operated and easy to work so could be a good solution as long as kitten doesn't shoot out with older cat.

Can you afford one of these?

microchip cat flap connect

Blimey, they’re pricey but brilliant idea, never occurred to me. Thanks very much

Ours deffo wasn't that expensive or high tech! It was £60 on amazon apparently. It does eat batteries though, that's the only downside to it really, that and to have to shut it manually if you want to rather than remotely programming it like the snazzy one. It lets you know when it's going flat as it clicks incessantly...

Stupid question - how do you program the flap to recognise the chip?

With ours you had to hold a button down then present the cat to the flap 😂 bit fiddly! I forget exactly but the instructions made it achievable. The hardest bit was manoeuvring cat so their neck was in range of the chip reader but it was only like trying to post them through the flap.

There's a button on the flap that you press and then post your cat through it to register it

If it's like our microchip cat feeder, the instructions come with it but it was really easy. We just had to put cat next to the feeder, the feeder recognised cat and programmed itself.

We also have the cheaper microchip flap so you can't control who goes in or out. I like the look of the other one though

There is video on the sureflap website for the connect that shows you how to programme your cat🤣🤣.

We have a Sure microchip flap too and you don't have to "post" your cat through, you just set it on the right mode to programme in a new chip and leave it on a manual mode and it will register the first time the cat goes through.

Do you have a room you can use as the kitten's room initially to be able to introduce them slowly and keep kitten somewhere safe until the two get along?