Just wondering if anyone can offer any advice.... We have a Sureflap pet flap with a curfew setting that is supposed to keep our cat Bobby in overnight. But Bobby can open the locked cat flap, and it’s really noisy as he smashes his way out.
The only way to keep him in is to barricade the cat flap, which then needs taking down to let him out in the early morning, totally defeating the point of a curfew cat flap. Even then he worries away at the barricade (various pieces of furniture and weights), and wails.
As it’s the dead of winter in the UK, we’ve just left the flap open recently and are getting way more sleep.
I’m not particularly happy with him being out at night but we live on a traffic free estate and he doesn’t ever go more than 25 metres. He just enjoys going out and coming in constantly.
In the spring, the estate gets beset by magpies who obsess over Bobby and wake the neighbourhood up at first light with their horrible cawing. Although he mainly just watches, he’s also been known to catch them, along with other baby birds. We don’t really wan‘t him out between 4am and 6am.
We don’t really have anywhere to lock him in overnight where he can’t disturb us. Our house is upside down, the kitchen is upstairs where it’s all open plan.
What would you do in this situation? Is there a way to jam a cat flap?