Electronic Dog and Cat Door - Automatic Smart Door with Collar Sensor Key - for Cats and Small Dogs 4-15 lb

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.

I purchased this door in September, 2015, it was installed two months later. I already have three hundred dollars invested in this door, between the purchase of the door, batteries, a collar sensor and installation. The fact is, this is not large enough or strong enough for a 100 lb dog. The first day, my 92 lb dog went through the door, hit his back and became terrified of the door. I have never been able to get him to go through it again. Coaxing, treats, taping the flap up, nothing worked. I know he is afraid of it because he feels he doesn't fit through it. My other dog would use it but since I have to get up to open the door every time they want to go out or come in, it didn't get much use. My plan was to replace it, but since I am a senior citizen on a small fixed income, three hundred dollars is a very large some of money for me, so I haven't done anything about it because I just haven't had the money. Well, now I have no choice. The dog who uses the door went through it today. It hasn't been used in months, and I opened it today. The second dog, just like the first dog, hit his back on it today and the flap fell off. Just great. I was left with a large, flapless hole in my door, on a holiday weekend, when there is no one around to cover up the hole for me. I finally placed the flap in the hole and duct taped it. Lovely. Just what something I spent a quarter of my monthly income on should look like! Bad enough it has been mostly unusable, not it is broken and unsightly, as well. Prior to this, I used a different Pet Safe door with a flap. Flap never closed properly, and my house was always filled with flies, lizards and frogs. (I live in FL). It was why I opted for this door, hoping that with the rigid flap I wouldn't have critters in my house. The last door had to have the metal "security" slide in door replaced within days of installation, because my dog walked right through it, bending the metal slide. Some security. I guess for now I will have to live with this unsightly mess, until I can put together enough money for a new dog door and installation, but you can be sure it won't be a Pet Safe product. I can't afford to keep replacing their products, and clearly they aren't fit for the purpose for which they are sold. They are supposed to be for dogs to enter and exit. My dogs are big and rough, as dogs are. . .

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.

Calibration a bit tricky. Dog has trouble because it won’t open fast enough and she gets confused. The small size is very small and out dog is under 10 lbs and has to squeeze through. She wo t go out by herself cuz she doesn’t understand she has to wait, but she comes back in by herself since she ores before it locks. That’s good enough for me right now. I still recommend the product. Keeps the cats in. Keep kids away though!

We got this so we can keep the cat inside but let the Labrador come and go as he wants. The size is great for him (he’s a 30kg lab). Installation was easy and the instructions it comes with were really thorough and made it straight forward to get it set up. Once it was set up, it only took the dog about a day to figure out how to use it. I read a lot of reviews complaining about how noisy it is, and it does make a loud click when it unlocks, but honestly I don’t think it’s that bad. My dog listens for the click to know when the doors open for him and I quite like the peace of mind of hearing it click so I know when he’s coming/going. The first one we had delivered was faulty, and so I called customer service and they helped me trouble shoot, then had a warranty claim processed and a new one sent out within the day. I was so impressed with the customer service. All in all, this isn’t a 100% perfect product, but given the price and how few other options there are on the market I think it does very well, and most importantly my dog is happy.

Genial, super buen producto, funcionamiento excelente y facil programacion con las llaves, igual si lo quieres dejar libre sin el uso del acceso de las llaves, excelente producto para el acceso de tus mascotas a casa y viceversa

The first one that I had, lasted about 15 years, and this replacement looks to have similar quality.