Our cats are allowed out in the morning when we go to work / school, then the flap is adjusted so that when the cat come back home, they can not get out (ie only once pure and thus also only max. One . reinbringen mouse or similar). Just the evening: A cat in it, the other not yet there, no problem, flap closure is adjusted so that one can not get out and the second but still pure.
Now to our cats:
The cat has only two-three attempts needed to understand the principle: through head first! Meanwhile it is so with "Speed" herein- "geballert" that one can only say: the door is processed real tough !!!!
The second cat it just does not understand! You tried to open the door by scratching, has already two times nasty clamped a paw. We have managed now to persuade more than half a year well and stop flap that they can use the flap to going out alone. But come in, that does not make them. Possibly Is it because that they once must go through the small passage from the inside and has the right door from the outside in front of him. We continue to practice ...
Also, you can not adjust easily the flap. Although I have carved out the magnet (with shock can demagnetize), but I suspect that the mechanism of the door is also quite tight. To this end, but no points deduction because a loose flap would transmit also plenty of drafts and it remains here even in windy conditions to!
How each with its Freigängern that accessible in and out can freely handle, also have to decide for themselves. We let the cats indoors at night and therefore an adjustable shutter is very good to use when one is still on the way and we want to go to sleep. During the day, when the cats are alone, I want them to just MAXIMUM reinbringen only a mouse (to which I could do without as well, but then I would have to completely lock). Luckily they bring mostly dead mice home and present this often before the door outside on the balcony from. From noon until late in the cat can then come home and go out freely again; the fact that the cat flap leads to our living room, and not in the basement or hallway, we have to some extent in view, what there so everything is dragged and the chicks have a rhythm the output times.
Oh yes, we had sometimes a guest cat who said she would have to shake the evening times on the flap. If the morning should walk in time and then comes out again not, I think the hospitality of my Fellies would be very strained and there could be a very beautiful mess. For some who therefore have concerns, "door open / door closed, no one there, pitch for Cat" is generally no cover, because it is probably better.
For those who decide with all advantages and disadvantages for a cat flap and open them individually or close want: strong buy recommendation for this Rosewood Cat Mate with different shutter settings!
Only, as I said, a cat does not learn quickly, the other or is too cautious and takes time ...
