Does anyone have a catflap in an internal door?

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We’re in the process of buying a house. First-time buyers. We want to put a catflap in the front door (no other suitable doors and a wall tunnel is way too drastic for a house that’s not our forever home).

There’s an internal door between the hallway and living room. We’ll want to keep this shut to reduce draughts so are assuming we need a flap in this too. (Will make good or replace whenever we move on.)

Does anyone have any tips? For example about what to get for an internal door, or anything we might not have thought of? Thank you!

We did in our last house (moved a month ago). It was really drafty and we ended up covering it with cardboard (rented house so that was the best we could do.

We have one on our door between the main house and the basement. It's a microchip one so we can control which cats can go into the basement (where the one to outside is). It only really useful as a microchipped one when one of the cats has to be isolated in the main house. Otherwise the cheapest magnetic sort would have done as there's no danger of external cats using it or it being blown open by the wind.

I did at one stage: between the kitchen and the utility, where the litter tray lived. Worked well.

We have one between the kitchen and utility (where the litter trays are) to save us having the door open all the time. DS who is fairly handy, cut the hole with a jigsaw.

I've just done this for the kitchen door to side hallway. It's made the kitchen far far warmer (side hallway leads to a garage annex that's not used much in the winter). I used a regular cat flap. I'll replace the door if I ever leave and have to, or knock £50 off the price of the house.

Oh I know you mentioned the front door being the only suitable door, but you can put cat flaps in french doors / patio doors - we have done this several times in rentals by just replacing the sealed unit.

Thanks folks! Feeling encouraged that this is an actual thing other people have done.

DCat will probably refuse to use it when we staff are around, though.

Our two did wonder what the hell we thought we were doing. I did it in stages though and first cut a hole and closed the door. Once they were used to that I put in the cat flap. They needed help to figure it out, but got there in the end. Amazing what a few cat treats will do for their abilities.

I should do this. I have a 15 panel glass door between the kitchen and the living room which is constantly being flung open by the cat. He can't be bothered to close it behind him and then has the audacity to sit on my partner's lap because he's warm. Hence my partner can't move because of the cat and it's dull, and cold me who has to get up to shut it.

Oh and when I get up to close the door the cat thinks he's going to get fed, not a chance fatty, jumps off the lap and rushes into the kitchen and the palaver gets repeated.

I've got one in the bedroom door, I like to shut it for privacy and to stop it banging in the wind (sleep with the window open) but it was driving me mad having to open it all the time or hear the cat meowing at it. Works great, I don't know why more people don't do it.