One major problem that many pet owners with pet doors installed face is that of unwanted furry intruders in their homes. Ordinary cat flaps are open and any number of wild animals like raccoons and rats can also enter your house through them just like your own pets. Needless to say, having these unwanted furry guests in your kitchen or in your hallway can be quite a nightmare, to put it mildly. Intruding stray cats is also a problem arising from having an open cat flap in your house. Not only will these uninvited guests will steal your cat’s food, they also like to mark their territory by freely urinating around the place. Also, they are also likely to terrorize or injure your cat. In this case getting a better cat flap, like an infrared cat flap is a good idea.

Ordinary cat flaps are simply not cut out to control who they let in. They don’t have the capability to keep out intruders and protect your cat. So there must be a better way to deal with this problem: The infrared cat flap. This modern cat flap involves an infrared sensor, which acts like a password protected entrance, and only lets your cat pass through, after reading the infrared signal from your cat’s ‘key’.

Manufacturers provide the key with the package, some even give a spare, in case your cat loses one, or you want to allow access to more than one cat. If your cat loses both the keys, you can always buy the spare ones that the manufacturer offers. Getting your cat to wear this key and ensuring that it point away from its body, in the front is necessary for the functioning of the infrared mechanism.

The infrared cat flaps are based on an infrared identification system – infrared is like a wireless connection – There is an infrared signal detector in the cat flap and there is a ‘key’ that your cat has to wear with its collar. The flap will remain locked at all times and will unlock only when the cat, with the infrared key in her collar, wants to go out, or come in.

The infrared cat flap is a modern device that offers you more control over the movement of your cat, protects your cat, and your house from intruding stray cats, and provides an efficient tool to manage your cat’s outdoors. While being a little expensive than ordinary cat flaps, infrared cat flaps provide excellent value for money in that they give you peace of mind and your cat its freedom.