chip reading cat flaps

[k8bailey]

Has anyone got a cat falp which reads microchips? Are they any good?

One of the neighbourhood cats is coming into our house and marking its terriritory. We have a standard cat flap and 2 cats of our own. We need to get this sorted!

[NOX]

Please forgive me for laughing, I thought I had weird problems. I don't know anyone whose got a chip reading catflap sorry but your post has really amused me to no end, and I can imagine how annoying it is.

[Chaffinch]

I did have one (well dog flap, I have two JRT's), but it only lasted a couple of months. I cant remember the make but it was quite expensive, so little help to you. Mind you dogs do go in and out at speed where as cats are more sedate!

[wolf63]

I have heard quite a few good things about this one

http://www.microchipcatflaps.co.uk/

But if the cat next door is a big bruiser of a boy cat he 'may' be able to force his way through - but I have only heard of this happening once.

It must be freaking your cats out - they should stand up to him! ;-)

[tiggerblue10]

I have one and its brilliant. Its the Petporte Smart Flap and I've had it over a year now. Pretty costly but it has kept the other cats out and of course the foul marking spray.

[boxtops]

I'm thinking of getting one next time I need to replace mine (my cats are big, and in panic they can end up with the frame as a girdle, halfway up the garden). I've got a leaflet here for Sureflap (www.sureflap.co.uk), you programme the door to your own cat's chip, or rather it does it itself when it sticks its head in the space.

If you do go for it. look on eBay or Amazon first - don't pay full shop price. I bought a Furminator on eBay for £6.99 recently, in a catalogue they were asking £31 for exactly the same thing!

[boxtops]

here's one, others are up to £78 for the same thing. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk...s&hash=item2c5c553b0b

[ladybirder]

I got one to stop a big bully of a cat that used to come into my home, sometimes while I was there, and spray everywhere. It was brilliant and as well as stopping any other cat entering you could set it so that if my two weren't in when I went to bed, once they came in they couldn't go out again. It is safer for the cat to be kept in at night and safer for the fledglings early in the morning in spring as that is when cats are most likely to catch them. So I would say yes they are worth the money and are very effective.

[wolf63]

As "Pete the Vet" from FB once said - cats can be terrible bullies. An understatement!

[craft1948]

I had one of these at my last house, and it so frustrated next doors cat that it used to sit for hours crying and scartching at the door. I had to replace the door before I could sell the house.

[wolf63]

craft - ;-)

[k8bailey]

oooh so many replies....thanks everyone! Yes the other cat is quite big and we've tried scaring it off with pints of water, shoes etc but it keeps coming back :( Our 2 will just sit there and let the other one in! It's even sprayed on my daughter's cot while she was in it...obviously all door are kept shut now, but I miss seeing my own cats sleeping at the end of the bed.

Thanks Box and Wolf for the links, I will do a little window shopping now!

[Dee Sa]

we used to have one and it was great, only our cat could get in.Then we got a puppy and got stuck in it ! so we had to change for a dogflap.