Cat Mate Microchip Activated Cat Flap (360) - ISO and AVID Compatible, Door for Entry Control of up to 30 Cats or Small Dogs, for Single/Multiple Glazing, UPVC, Walls and Wood, White

for anyone looking to create "food pods" or similar for cats with different dietary needs, IT WORKS! i was able to cut it down, following the instructions, to fit both a very thin door and another unit fits a pretty standard size door -- i did not need an adapter. speaking of size, my diabetic furbaby is a Big Boi but is able to squeeze through, though he is very very food motivated and is willing to put in the effort. the others are fairly normal size cats and fit very comfortably. note that this unit does not come with any collar tags, so if your cat isn't already microchipped you will need to get one of the Cat Mate ID Disks per door like me -- they are not small, but don't seem to get in the way too much and work just fine. can confirm for anyone that this unit will read 125 kHz rfid codes, and the ID Disks use 125 kHz as well 👀 chip-training is fairly straightforward, and you are rewarded with a not-loud but not-quiet ka-chunk when the mechanism successfully unlocks. my cats seemed confused by the noise at first, but now are not bothered and even seem to use it to confirm when they can push their lil faces into the door. the sticky-outie tunnel part must face OUT of whatever you are controlling entry for, so in my case i have it sticking out of the food pods, and the control dial is inside the pod. the controls aren't super intuitive, but just leave it on "unlocked" to bar entry for nonchipped cats and allow any/all cats out. i literally had to sit there with a collar and mess with it until i figured this out, as the instructions aren't super helpful. it needs many batteries. it will use rechargeable ones, but apparently the low-battery alert light only works with the nonrechargeable ones due to the difference in voltage -- this remains to be seen, but i assume it will work as advertised and will update if otherwise. i also am using a camera inside the food-pod to monitor eating, so i figure i'll see the light that way since it isn't visible from outside the unit in my configuration. the unit is white -- pictures make it look gray or something, but it looks nice and white in person 👍 the door is also significantly tinted, which i think prevents distractions to whomever is eating but i suppose it could be a pro or con depending on your use case. overall super pleased with the price ($79.99+tax) and functionality (allowing me to separate food stations inside my house).

There was a gray cat who roamed the neighborhood for several years. He had a family but they never let him indoors - no matter the temp or weather conditions. The summer of 2022 he kind of adopted us - started hanging out at our front door, then sleeping at our front windows. We had two indoor cats so couldn’t just bring a strange, non-vetted cat indoors. Long story short is that he eventually did end up at the vet and able to come in our home. That said he will never be fully indoors - he won’t go to the bathroom in a litter box unless the weather outside is EXTREMELY bad. Fortunately our schedules are such that we can let him in and out multiple times a day. Our concern has always been being away though. I had this fear of leaving for any length of time, that door not opening for him and him feeling abandoned again as his last family did to him. We then read about this door, immediately ordered it and took Jack to get chipped. It took about two days to get him to use it for the first time with our assistance and a few more days for him to intermittently start using it on his own. At first it was almost as if he didn’t understand that it was ok for him to come in and out at his own will - I think he thought he needed our permission to enter the house. We went to Florida from 11/8-11/18 and set up Cameras so we could call him to his door if needed. About two days before we had to leave the door thing fully clicked with him and he finally understood he was home and free to come and go as he pleased. The whole trip we would get so much joy every time we got a camera notification and saw him coming or going. It’s funny because now that he knows he can come and go at will he actually stays inside much more. Now He leaves sometimes for an hour at most but more often than not it’s only for like 10-15 minutes to go to the bathroom. It is a one way door so we have it set so the chip is required to exit that way our other cats can’t get out. He exits into the garage and has another cat door to the outside. To come back in you don’t need a chip but because it’s in the garage I’m not worried about another animal finding their way in. Anyway this door has changed a cats life for the better and made him understand he’s truly home. We can’t thank you enough for making this affordable door.

Lo bueno es que está bien hecha, de material de primera calidad y el detector de RFID parece funcionar bien. Lo malo es que es algo pequeña incluso para gatos medianos y el control de la puerta no tiene la opción de habilitar la libre entrada sin chip RFID, toda entrada es forzosamente con chip (la salida si es libre, sin chip)

I love this cat door. After reading comments about how the door doesn’t work properly at times w the internal microchip we ended up just ordering the proper collar attachment from closet pets to ensure proper performance, yes it makes a sound when it opens but it lets my cat know. So it cost us a total of $120 ish for everything and we didn’t need to spend more on a higher end one. Our cat has had no issues using this at all. We had issues w the neighbours cat welcoming themselves in and eating our cats food with the basic cat door…So this has all but prevented that from happening. Very pleased!

Compré estos para hacer cápsulas de comida para mis dos gatas. Fueron fáciles de programar y funcionaron muy bien durante aproximadamente una semana. Ahora, una de ellas no registra el chip a menos que Prosecco esté en la posición EXACTA en la que quiere que esté. Está frustrada por no poder entrar fácilmente y viene a buscarme para que pueda ayudarla. No puedo saber si el lado de Amaretto tiene problemas porque está loca y ataca la puerta para entrar. También compré comederos automáticos de comida húmeda refrigerada más los gabinetes y construí todo, así que estoy bastante invertido (tiempo y dinero) en que esto funcione. Estoy esperando un reemplazo y el precio subió desde que compré hace un par de semanas, así que eso también es muy frustrante.

Pretty good! I've used multiple of these for about 1.5 years now and can say that they're a actually pretty decent. I have had some (but minimal issues) with the door malfunctioning and not letting the kitties in, but I think that was due to low battery. Setting it up is usually fairly easy although I have had some times where it hasn't registered and I need to reset the whole thing a start over. What I can absolutely voucher for is that it will NOT open for any kitty or animal that doesn't have a microchip registered to it. This is a huge selling point for me. We've had our cats feeding areas seperated via this cat door as my one cat will bully and eat all the other cats food. If he could have found a way in he would have, but he has never once been able to crack it open. Is it perfect? No not really, but I think that for the price and for it's 95% success rate with letting the cats in and out I'd say it's worth it. I would buy this again knowing that sometimes it can be a bit finicky.

Nous l'utilisons pour nos 3 chats et elle fonctionne tres bien. Cependant nous avons du retourner la premiere que nous avions commander car elle était defectueuse. Les batteries sont a changer environ au 2 mois pour 3 chat qui entre et sorte frequement de la piece. Fonctionne avec les micro puce sous cutané