Pet Doors

Keeping your pet dog or cat safe while allowing it the freedom to go outside if it needs to, is a problem that can be easily solved with the installation of a pet door incorporated within your own door or built into the wall of your home itself. These pet doors in a basic sense are merely smaller openings within the primary structure that are covered with a flap of material your pet can push through. They are designed so that there is a minimum of outside intrusion from the elements. Pet doors generally come in three standard sizes, from small, which will allow your cat or small dog through, up to the large size for animal pets that may reach one hundred pounds or more.

That people care about their pets is evident in the many styles of pet doors created to make life more comfortable for our four legged companions. There are automatic and electronic doors, which will open for the animal either by a weight detecting scale or an electronic signal when your pet gets close to the door. Some, including the Staywell Company's pet doors will use an infrared beam to detect when your pet moves toward the exit door and, because of the transmitter in your pet's collar, will only unlock for your "authorized" animals to enter your home. The electronic security locks are incorporated especially in the pet doors for your larger pets so as not to be a security weakness in your home.

Staywell has the reputation of being one of the best on the market, with styles of pet doors that can be framed in wood, aluminum or steel and can be set into even thin walls for your pet's convenience. There are pet doors, which incorporate a double door design to prevent loss of element protection when placed in storm doors. For more agile pets, especially cats, they have designs of pet doors that will fit into a window instead. They are built with security features so the "pet door" cannot be accessed by larger "animals" of the two-legged kind.

The ideal pet doors will be the type that do not give your pet the "threatened" feel. To this end you will find pet doors that have clear plastic flaps, mesh flaps or solid barriers that will lift out of the way when the self-opening mechanism is activated. While pet door flaps can wear out with use, many companies like Staywell build them with enough durability it may be years before you would need to consider a replacement.