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A microchip cat flap vs magnetic cat flap decision sounds trivial until you’re standing in the pet aisle with a cat carrier under one arm and a screwdriver in the other, trying to work out which little plastic door is actually worth your money. In short: a microchip cat flap reads the identification chip already … Read more
Warm evenings are lovely right up until the moment you open the back door and a squadron of flies follows your cat in behind them. A screen door cat flap solves that exact headache: it is a small, self-closing flap fitted either into an existing fly screen or built into a magnetic mesh curtain, letting … Read more
There’s a specific kind of dread that comes with realising the neighbourhood tomcat has been letting himself into your kitchen through your cat’s own front door, or that your cat wandered off at 2am and you’ve no way of keeping her in until you’re awake to check on her. A lockable cat flap solves both … Read more
You know the scene: a broad-chested, fifteen-pound tabby wedges himself halfway through a standard cat flap, gets stuck at the shoulders, and glares at you like it’s somehow your fault. It usually is, to be fair — most cat flaps sold on the high street were designed around an average five-kilogram cat, and a genuinely … Read more
If you’ve ever stood at your back door at 6am, cold tea in hand, physically operating a manual flap for three different cats with three different opinions about the weather, you already know why a cat flap for multiple cats isn’t a luxury — it’s basic household infrastructure. A single dumb flap that lets anything … Read more
There’s a particular kind of madness that sets in when you live in a flat with no back door, just a lovely big window and a cat who has decided, with total conviction, that the great outdoors is her birthright. If you’ve ever propped a window open on a warm evening “just for five minutes” … Read more
Sliding patio doors are brilliant right up until your cat decides 2am is the perfect time to demand access to the garden. Anyone who has stood, bleary-eyed, wedging a stiff aluminium door open six inches “just in case” knows the problem a cat flap for sliding glass doors is trying to solve. It sounds like … Read more
There’s a very specific kind of 2am wake-up call that only cat owners know: the thud-thud-thud of a paw against glass, followed by a yowl that says, quite clearly, “I have decided the outdoors is over, let me in.” A door mounted cat flap solves this before it starts. Instead of a hole cut into … Read more
Right, let’s be honest with each other for a second: nobody actually wants to spend their Saturday morning hunched over a door with a jigsaw, wondering whether they’ve measured the cut-out correctly. But that’s the trade-off, isn’t it? Either you keep getting up at 6am to let the cat out, or you install a flap … Read more
Somewhere around 2am, a cat that isn’t yours is going to try your ordinary flap door, and if it’s just a swinging plastic panel or a magnetic one, it’s going to win. That’s the entire reason the microchip cat flap exists. Rather than reacting to a magnet on a collar (which falls off, which gets … Read more