Cat Mate Lockable Cat Flap with Door Liner, White

Easy installation and easy to use. It will serve its purpose without problems.

My 2 cats are starting to get use to it...scared them to death at first. My bedroom door go out to a screen porch an they love going back an forth, it almost drove me crazy. Now they come an go at will an don't bother me to let them in an out. They still have not gotten the hang of opening the flap themselves but we are doing it by stages. I taped the swing door open so they could 1st get use to going in an out on their own. We've only had it in a couple weeks. Next we will teach them how to open the flap themselves. But so fare its GREAT! I'm happy an the girls are happy!! One is 9 yrs an the other 9 month an both are enjoying it. Worth the price for sure. UPDATE:7/22/2014 Cats refuse to use the flap and we wonder if it is because the flap is tinted? I called Petmate up and they said they don't make a clear flap replacement and the rep couldn't have cared less(typical customer service!). I use duct tape to hold the flap up and we use a small pillow propped up against the opening to keep out the Texas heat.The cats have learned to move it aside when they want out or in. We just have to put the pillow back up all the time. I guess I'll try another brand with a clear flap and see how it works! Has anybody else had this problem? Thanks-this update posted by Bill. UPDATE:7/24/2014 I wrote an email to Ani Mate and received a response and YES, they do carry a clear replacement flap and the person I spoke to originally was wrong. I emailed Amazon receipt and because it still under warranty, they're shipping the flap free of charge. Thank you Petmate for correcting the problem. We'll see if my cats use the new flap. I'll update this review in awhile.Thanks, Bill. UPDATE:1/12/2015 Cats are using the clear flap!Took out the magnet and locking mechanism so the older cat could get in and out easier.Still use a pillow at nite to keep out heat and cold. Bill.

The door is fairly easy to install and some care will give a perfect result. An outside door needs to seal well but this isn't really necessary for an indoor cat door. This door is advertised as indoor/outdoor, but the heavy door swing and the strong magnet closure make it best as an outside door, unless your cat is already knows how to open such a door with a hard head butt. My cat didn't.Fortunately the door swing can be inserted and removed by pusing a top edge of the swing into the hinge and pulling forward on the other. I removed the door and cut out the magnet latch. Slowly I'm getting him accustomed to pushing though by gradually lowering a napkiin hanging over the opening. Hope to have him pushing through the magnetless door in in couple weeks.

I rate this 4 ⭐️ because it is a bit small. I hope my young cats don’t grow too much more. Also it only has 2 locking options( locked or not). This was kind of my mistake. I got mixed up in details from other doors. I choose this one because I knew I needed an extender and knew this would be compatible and forgot to check for a 4 option door.All in all I’m pretty happy with the product. It seems well built and the install went as well as could be expected. Thank you to the others who left helpful tips on what to expect. Our door needed to give access to the outside and could only go through a wall. The tunnel distance was about 5.25”. 2 extenders were necessary which is what I had anticipated reading other reviews. 👍.I did not use the template. For the outside wall I traced the inside of the cat door. After cutting, I had to shave off a few mm to get the insert to fit. It got a bit messy. So for the inside I traced the outside of an extender. (After measuring very carefully It went much better. For the thickness of our wall 2 extenders were too long so I had to trim an extender a bit to get a snug fit but it was simple to do with some tin snips.I’ve taped the door open until the cats get used to their new tunnel. No hesitation from them so far. Finally I can close and lock our patio doors again😀.

This was shipped in no time and packaged perfectly.We put this into an interior steel door between the house and the garage. Cutting through the steel with a jigsaw was the hardest part of the job, since it had to be cut individually from both sides of the door (door was too thick to cut through entire door in one cut). I think this could be a 20 minute job, but our challenges took it to a 2-hour job. No fault of the product of course.Once the hole was made, it was easy enough to fit the door from the 2 sides. We have an old, fat cat, and she has no problems going through this door. We got this door as it looked like the weather-sealing was the most advanced, and so far it seems to be working well.I do think the instructions that came with the door were poor. With so many variables for door or walls and thicknesses of both, they should've supplied more than picture-only instructions. There were arrows pointing everywhere trying to establish some kind of flow chart for these variables, but sometimes they were incorrect or dubious, and we ended up installing it more based on common sense than following instructions. That's fine if you have some handyman know-how, but I wouldn't want my mother having to install this by herself. Since you have to cut a hole in a wall or door, and possibly cut the actual product too depending on the width needed, they've just left too much up to an interpretation of diagrams and arrows.

Good but our cats didn't like the swinging door. We had to remove it, so it's a trimmed hole now.