Oh my! Knowing my luck I would have tried and got horribly stuck half way! Unable to call for help and unable to let the dog in or out!
Ok I expect to have a nightmare tonight! I thought this such a great idea .. maybe if I stick to Jack Russels… They have good fences here so not expecting a fox but they have so many kites the home made bird house is always vacant.
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No, no. That is when you bribe some neighbourhood kid to crawl through the flap!
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This smacks of chimney sweeps in Dickens’ time! I could be had up for child abuse… but thinking of the locksmith alternative .. I think I’d come to a lucrative deal with Junior! Maybe I should start bringing along my grandchildren … they love a challenge! It’s in the genes!
My friend installed a catflap that would allow only her cat to enter (by chip) while any could go out.
One day shortly after she came home to her cat and also a really grumpy - and unfamiliar - Mr. Cat hiding under the couch. They couldn’t understand it at first, and figured maybe he had followed her in, but why didn’t he leave, as it seemed he didn’t like it there?
When they investigated further what had happened, they found that they had installed the catflap the wrong way. So stray cats could come in, but not leave. That is a p*ssytrap right there. 
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We have that sort of microchip activated catflap at home for our kitty - installed correctly!
It also has a timer function, so kitty has a 6:00pm to 6:00am curfew.
She has become very cunning and wilful, dashing outside just before 6:00pm. The catflap will allow her in at any time, even after 6:00, just not out again.
It also stops wallabies, wombats, Tas devils, snakes, echidnas, quolls and stray cats or dogs from getting in.
Only problem is when the batteries go flat.
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For a couple of sits, I have actually built catflap panels for sliding doors.
The first one was because the HO wanted me to either leave the sliding door open for the cats, or get up at 3:00am to let the cats out, wait for them to come back in, then close the door again - in winter!
Uh huh, nope, not reasonable.
So I built one that fitted i to the sliding door space, and could be removed easily in order to lock the door.
The second one I built was for a cat that incessantly wanted to go out, then in, then out, then in … you get the picture. They were cheap to build, even cheaper than a ready-built one from Bunnings.
(Screenshots edited to respect privacy as per the posting guidelines)
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Is this a reference to The Full Monty?
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Thank you so much for sharing your labour saving work! These are brilliant! What a clever cat that worked out when the draw bridge closed at the castle and worked his way around the problem. Sounds like Mr Richard Whittington’s cat ! ( wouldn’t let me write the common shortened version of Richard!)
Well hats off to him for sure!
You’ve turned the tables on being CatStaff!!
No it wasn’t @PVGemini but I understand why you asked!
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