I reluctantly purchased this doggie door after reading all the terrible reviews, as a last resort. We are a family of cat lovers who inherited a dog when a family member passed away and are learning to live with him. He had a doggie door his entire life before us but when we took him in we chose to try to train him to ask to go outside so our cats didn't get out. We spend 2 years trying to train him and all we ended up with is a wall in our hallway that needed sheetrock replaced because he peed on it repeatedly and LOTS of frustrations. We decided to try a regular doggie door and see how our cats did going out because we couldn't find any electronic doggie door with even semi-good reviews. The cats loved going out but one started roaming too much and another one loved to hunt and brought us lots of half dead animals (lizards, mice, moles and SNAKES). We also had 2 stray cats decide to wander in our house in the middle of the night. Waking up to a strange animal in your house is no fun. I include these things for anyone considering a traditional doggie door who has never had one.On to the Petsafe electronic door. We ended up having our handyman install the door so I can't really comment on installation. We were installing in a metal door and didn't have the tools to cut through the door so I didn't even try. I had read a comment on here about making sure the door was level and passed that along to him. He said he put it in and was having a bit of trouble getting it working right so he loosened the screws and re-leveled to get it working. This makes me think being level is quite important, as would make sense for a swinging door.We have had this door for a week now and it is working great for us. It makes a pretty loud click when it unlocks. This scared the dog a bit in the beginning but he is used to it now. He has to be in the range for about 15 seconds for the door to unlock. The range can be adjusted so maybe it would open quicker if I adjusted it but I like it taking him standing in range for a bit for it to unlock so it doesn't unlock every time he walks by. In the beginning he would try to get out the door before it was unlocked but has now learned to wait for the click to know it is unlocked. To teach him to go out the door I held the door open and showed him it was just like his old doggie door. When I tried to get him to go out on his own he didn't seem to understand that he could open it by himself as this door seals tightly unike a flap door. I gave him a little nudge from behind a couple of times to push his nose into the door and he quickly realized he could open it this way. Next, I stood outside the door and gave him treats when he came out, then moved back inside and did the same. It took about 5 days for him to get really comfortable with the door but now he uses it just fine.We have not had any issues with the door not opening when it is supposed to. It has not gotten stuck once. It closes quickly behind him and locks in about 15 seconds. So far our cats have not tried to go out behind him, but I do realize this is a very real possibility. The door is pretty loud when it locks/unlocks and swings so thus far the cats have only investigated from a distance. So far we love the door and it has saved my sanity (I couldn't take another half dead animal coming in my house, my kitties roaming off and getting injured, or another midnight visit from a strange animal) but, I am still a bit skeptical. With so many bad reviews I am just waiting for this thing to break any day. I will update this review if my opinion changes from my current 5 star rating.****Update August 6, 2012****At this point I would give this product more than 5 stars if I could! We have not had a single problem with it, I'm not sure if this is luck on our part, but I'm not questioning it :-). It has never gotten stuck or locked our dog out or in. I had to change the battery in the collar today. A red light came on on the collar unit to notify me it was dead, I replaced it and it worked just the same again.One of our cats has learned to go out of the door, in fact he has trained the dog to let him out when he wants out (it took him about a month to figure it out). He will meow at the door like something important is going on until the dog comes to check it out. The dog then stands there confused trying to figure out what the cat is yelling about and unlocks the door for him. As soon as the cat hears the click he is out the door! Whoever said dogs are smarter than cats hasn't lived with both ;-). This really hasn't been an issue because he always comes back quickly and hasn't yet trained the dog to let him in so I have to let him back in (the doggy door is in the garage so I know he always has a safe, cooler place to go) preventing him from bringing any of his half dead prey in the house with him. Our other 2 cats still have no interest in going near this door even though they used to go out the regular doggy door all the time. I think the noise of it still scares them, they are both more timid than the fearless hunter who has it all figured out.If you are like me and questioning this door because of the terrible reviews, I think it is definitely worth a try, just make sure you are precise in installing the door.

We purchased this in April 2016 so We have had it for a little over a month. We have not run into any problems at all with it. We took the door off the hinges and laid it down on a couple sawhorses to cut the hole for installing the dog door. After we installed it we decided to leave it unlocked for a few days so our lab would get used to it. We did have a different door prior to this one which was not locking that is why we decided to leave it unlocked for a little while. It took a little getting used to for our lab because she would run into the door because it was not unlocked yet. She finally learned after a couple days or less that when she hears a thump sound that means it is open and she can go through. The unlocking sound is quite loud and startled her at first but now she is used to it and has no problems with it at all. The main reason why we decided to get a locking door is because we had a stray cat that kept wanting to come into our house through the prior doggie door. Thankfully it wasn't a raccoon, skunk or possum which it could have easily been but not anymore.Since we have installed it we have not had any unwanted guests. We are very happy with this door and it has worked great with no problems at all. We purchased the large door for our black lab and it's a perfect size for her. It's nice that the store has three different settings to it the first is it is locked all the time which is great when we are out of town. The second is that it is unlocked all the time and the third is it will automatically unlock when your pet is near and lock back up a short time later. I'm including a photo of the smart key so you can get an idea of the size of it. I have noticed that the batteries last only a couple months that are in the smart key that's attached to the caller so you may want to stock up a bit on those. You can easily find them on Amazon.

TLDR: It works if you have a slower moving cat you’re keeping inside, but it has room for improvement. And yes the click when it unlocks is LOUD.I’ve used this dog door for about 7 months now and here’s what I’ve found. It works fantastic if you’re trying to keep your inside only cat from going outside and giving your dogs the ability to come and go. If your cat is sneaky like mine and doesn’t try and run out with the dogs it’ll work. It’s not perfect by far, and I hope they make more updates to it to make it a better quality dog door for the price. It’s also a little harder for smaller dogs to use as it’s a little harder for my chihuahua to open, and the tag for the collar is really big on her- but fits fine on my bigger dog.Pros- it works.Cons- it’s big. It’s very loud when it unlocks itself. It takes 4 D batteries, and that lasted us about 5 months. No options to get a smaller size tag for the collars if you have both a small and large dog.

Ich kann die ganzen guten Bewertungen leider überhaupt nicht nachvollziehen. An den Seiten ist leider ein Spalt, sodass die Lift sehr stark durchzieht. Zudem konnte ich nicht finden wie man die den Hunden implantierten Chips speichert. Zuletzt muss ich leider sagen dass ich die Qualität für den Preis wirklich schlecht finde.

Easy to program my dogs now have access 24-7 without having to leave the dog flap permanently open 🐶🐶🐶👍

Works well for our Dog and cat. Easy installation and blocks the weather. Even works at 40 below zero!

It's a bit small and it doesn't open easily. Our little dog really doesn't like it, I think that she bumped herself a few times and she doesn't use it. it kind of defeats the purpose and is a bit disappointing.

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