Currently got a very draghty staywell cat flap in the front door.
Leaks wind in like nobody's business..
Currently get over this by putting a tea towel over the flap, but the cat knocks it off every time she goes through.
Any recommendations on a decent cat flap or a way of blocking it off that will still allow the cat access..
duck tape the tea towel to above the flap so it stays in place? Luckily ours in on back door and we have internal porch but you can still feel it if the internal door is open
Feed the cat till it gets wedged, it will act as a draught excluder
our back door leads into the living room and our cat flap is as draughty as hell. No advice how to reduce the draft sorry.
My cat just seems to hibernate for the winter.
Goes out for 10 mins a day for a stretch and take care of a bit of 'business', then back inside and goes to sleep until the next day.
I can be a bit jealous when I'm defrosting the car of a morning and watch him saunter off upstairs to crash on my bed for the day 
Perhaps you just need a new cat flap, unless they actually get blown open by the wind,, they are ususally OK
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Originally posted by interestedparty
Perhaps you just need a new cat flap, unless they actually get blown open by the wind,, they are ususally OK
Not low cost but saw some remote control last time I was in pets at home last time they are the ones that have a transponder on the pets collar and
the thing open when your pet approaches, quite neat but thought they were quite dear.
Cheers
Rich
I put a cat flap on the shed door, put cat out at night and straight into shed on her blanket. Beats a cat flap on the front door any day. Maybe the cat flap you are using is just crap and you should try a different company? Seen the ones at pets at home they do look the bees, but are a bit on the pricey side.
Can you craft a box around the catflap and fit another catflap as a secondary door. Unless two flatcaps let in twice as much breeze???
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Originally posted by RichardK
Not low cost but saw some remote control last time I was in pets at home last time they are the ones that have a transponder on the pets collar and the thing open when your pet approaches, quite neat but thought they were quite dear.
Cheers
Rich
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Originally posted by marcjagman
I put a cat flap on the shed door, put cat out at night and straight into shed on her blanket. Beats a cat flap on the front door any day. Maybe the cat flap you are using is just crap and you should try a different company? Seen the ones at pets at home they do look the bees, but are a bit on the pricey side.
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Originally posted by marcjagman
I put a cat flap on the shed door, put cat out at night and straight into shed on her blanket. Beats a cat flap on the front door any day. Maybe the cat flap you are using is just crap and you should try a different company? Seen the ones at pets at home they do look the bees, but are a bit on the pricey side.
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Originally posted by owelly
Can you craft a box around the catflap and fit another catflap as a secondary door. Unless two flatcaps let in twice as much breeze???
How about a heavy bath towel? We have the same problem. Wind sometimes blows it open but I think half the problem is also the letterbox....
What about one of those fan heater things like they have over the doors in shops? 
We had a magnetic doggy flap which held it closed (Yorkie so like a large cat) and that was pretty good at stopping draughts. Pets at Home stock them I think.
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Originally posted by RichardK
Not low cost but saw some remote control last time I was in pets at home last time they are the ones that have a transponder on the pets collar and the thing open when your pet approaches, quite neat but thought they were quite dear.
Cheers
Rich
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Originally posted by SteveWalker
The best I've seen was a video of a homemade one - the cat had to pass through a short tunnel before reaching the flap. One side of the tunnel was illuminated and the other was translucent, allowing a camera to feed a sillouette to a computer. The computer used image recognition software to determine whether the cat was carrying anything in its mouth or not before allowing it in ... very clever!
SteveW
[Edited on 27/11/10 by SteveWalker]
