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

1st one didn't work. Called the company and they were awesome and replaced it immediately. Kitties are using it and it works great.

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).

Cat flap works great. Took about a week for the cat to figure it out. Pushing him through the flap to program it for his microchip put him off the cat door for a bit. But hunger and his indoor food dish won out in the end. My only complaint is that if the cat doesn’t come in fast enough or drags his back end through slowly, the flap doesn’t lock behind him. So far it hasn’t caused any issues, thankfully the neighborhood critters haven’t noticed it.

We have two Bengal tom-cats and if you know them, you know that they are much more independent, stubborn, and defensive than a standard pussy cat. The new electronic flap door is to be installed between inside and outside - that is we have to cut a hole between these two worlds to fit the new flap door into that hole. Therefore we needed to make sure of two things: a. that it operates as described and b., that our cats accept the door as well as their standard cat door (not chip-operated) that we have already installed between two indoor rooms. To avoid expensive mistakes we clamp-installed the new door in a sliding door to our deck, which is, so far, their standard door (operated manually by us many, many times by day and by night). The opening gap above was closed with a taped-in piece of plywood. The new flap-door was activated as per printed instructions accepted by them both cats. They did not hesitate to potentially use this door and - after activation - used it to get in or out but not reliably in both directions. The opposite direction was not allowed by the door (whilst correctly set for "in and out") after they went through once. This may be an activation mistake or something else not under our control. Whatever it is, we do not dare cutting a hole in a wall or door for a cat door that does not work reliably. The proposed alternative option to operating the flap door with a collar switch to be applied on in/outdoor cats, which are already chipped with the veterinarian standard US chip does not make sense to us. Actually, we think a collar on an active outdoor cat is dangerous because they could strangle themselves when getting stuck in a fence or similar. We observed the following while activating: Once the cat had their head deep enough in the tunnel, the red light switched to blinking (read the chip). As per instruction, we pressed the command button but there was no indication of success (as the blinking turned off or switching back to a steady red). The instructions don't mention any such feedback of success either, which seems odd. The blinking kept going for an hour and then the system shut off. Conclusion: We determined that the door is not reliable and it will therefore be sent back.

Honestly really good. There’s quite a bit of mixed reviews but I have had no problems so far. We bought this for our bedroom door. We have a cat and there are 2 other pets in the house. The goal was to make it so that our cat could get in and out of our bedroom so she can get to food without having our door open all the time. Originally we had a regular doggy door on, but the older cat in the house figured out he could get in and ate all our cat’s food and puked all over the room. So the new goal was to keep the other pets out too. Our cat is microchipped, so setting up the door lock was pretty easy. We just had to hold her on the doorway until it registered. About a minute. The door has a time delay since it has to unlock, but after a few days, she got the hang of it. It is a little loud when unlocking, but we don’t mind because we can tell when she comes in. After a while, we stopped noticing the noise. We are using rechargeable batteries to power the door. It’s been about 2 months and they haven’t needed to be charged yet. (Update: it’s now been about 3 months since installation and we just got the red light. Switched for some normal batteries since we didn’t have enough rechargeable to replace. No problems so far.) It is a little small, so if you have a bigger cat or dog, they might struggle. Awesome purchase! Highly recommend

Item worked just fine for our 6 cats for over two years. We put fresh batteries in before leaving on a trip, and it was working fine. Then we notice from a kitty camera that they were locked out the 5 days we were away. Thankfully we had extra food outside, but really annoyed that it just stopped working. We replaced the batteries again once got home but it hasn’t changed. So now it is simply an overly complicated flap that I have had to tape down the latch so they can come and go, and it no longer works properly.

I can let only certain cats in (with the tag) and I can let everyone out, but I can't keep one cat in (who has recent surgery) while allowing all the others to come in and out. Also, I'm certain my Jackie will break the door to get in if there is only that little small plastic thing keeping the door shut (he has already broken the other door that I am replacing). I'd like to keep him out since he is marking everything (neighbor cat trespassing has everyone upset). I am getting more tags for the others so I don't have the door on yet. I may update after I see how it all works out.

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)

Easy to set up and program to work with my chipped fur babies. Only took a couple of hours for the girls to learn to use it!

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.

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 closer 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!

Expected better Makes a loud click when it unlocks Slow to unlock Needs stronger detection, cat head has to be right up inside it, would be better if it could sense from a foot or two away rather than a few inches away Screws that hold it in are very slim with a very weak thread, a little force from a human or larger animal would dislodge it from the door Cat has to hold her head to it, wait for it to sense and read her microchip, tolerate the "click" then she must push through quickly ****Edit: there is a training mode that can be activated it allows the door to be unlocked in both directions always, the scan detection lock/unlock is disabled and there is no "click" Adding an additional star to review,