Cat Nets & Flaps

SureFlap Microchip CAT Flap learns your cats existing microchip.

Advantages: Microchip id code stored even if batteries are removed.
Disadvantages: Wee bit expensive.

...magnetic operating cat flap. The Sureflap is the only catflap that allows only your cat to get in.. It also has a four way manual lock so you can keep your cat in if you need to take it to the vet ect and you don't want it runnung out before you can get it in the carrier . In our opinion this is a great idea. We'd recommend it highly. The only downside is that it is quite expensive. We paid £79.00 but we feel it's money well spent. We bought ...

ThingsUneed2know-IcanShare 19.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of SureFlap Microchip Cat Flap

Hopeless against determined cats

Advantages: None over cheaper alternatives
Disadvantages: Weak lock, easy to break down

This is our second cat flap and thought it might solve the problem of a neighbourhood cat breaking and entering our house to eat our cat's food and terrorise her. We couldn't be more wrong. While the infra red collar might seem a good idea, the weakness in this product is the ineffective red lock on the cat flap. Because it is set to one side, only a bit of force is required to push it open. There should be another lock on the other side of the ...

Polo21 25.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Staywell 500 Infra-Red Cat Flap

Staywell 500; stay well away

Advantages: When it's working it is a nice system
Disadvantages: Akward to operate, poorly designed and very unreliable

We had to buy this because our new door is incompatible with magnetic catflaps. Should have bought a different door! The design is poor and the instrument is unreliable. My third flap has just expired and I have no idea what to do next. In any case several of the neighbourhood cats can open the flap by brute force. it isn't much of a deterent. Apparantly this review need to be at least 120 words. Seems a bit daft to me as I have said all I need to ...

Shandrew 23.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Staywell 500 Infra-Red Cat Flap

Staywell 500 infrared cat flap

Advantages: You might be able to one day recycle the plastic
Disadvantages: It does not work

...and forked out for a Staywell 500 infrared cat flap (with blue collar tags). My cats got used to it no problem and the infra red mechanism works ok letting the the cats in and out as desired. BUT .... the intruder cat is somehow still gaining access, somtimes i could hear it coming in when both my cats were with me in the lounge. So i decided to lay in wait to observe how the stray was getting in .... he simply pushes the flap strongly on one side ...
...their product. I did contact Staywell about this problem but they didn't seem to care and told me just to put something over the clear part of the plastic so stray cats can't see through and would be less likely to enter, which is just about the worst piece of customer care i've ever come across, anyway, i did that, useless, and to this day the stray has been pestering me with his spraying and unrinating, food stealing and bringing fleas into my ...

Ally_Dub 08.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Staywell 500 Infra-Red Cat Flap

A poorly designed product that has spent more time in manual mode

Advantages: To be honest I can't think of one
Disadvantages: Poor design will cost the owner in replacement parts and keys.

...weeks use. I wrote to staywell and the responce I had was the keys and water resistant and not water proof so won't survive a dip in the water bowl. They wouldn't replace the key under warranty and suggested using silicone to seal it. They have identified a problem with the keys but haven't incorporated a seal into the design nor have they suggested sealing it with silicone in the instructions. So the cat flap is back on manual mode and I'm chasing ...

kazoo_u 10.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Staywell 500 Infra-Red Cat Flap