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Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: summerleft on November 07, 2008, 19:23:10 PM

Title: cat flaps
Post by: summerleft on November 07, 2008, 19:23:10 PM
Looking at cat flaps for the new house, just wondering whats a tunnel?

some say with tunnel and without, am I being a little dim or what?  :-[
Title: Re: cat flaps
Post by: blackcat on November 07, 2008, 19:29:42 PM
a tunnel gets you through thick walls or doors - they can be 2 inches long, or a foot long. Many click together to be as long as you want. The tunnel is open at one end and has the flap at the other end - it is just a way of neatening the sides of the hole you make to install the flap. In a normal door, like mine, you only need a 2" tunnel ...

Make sure the flap is in a room you can seal off. My lot have worked out how to break out so have to leave the kitchen isolated after they are shut in at night cos otherwise the flap ends up in small pieces on the kitchen floor.
Title: Re: cat flaps
Post by: summerleft on November 07, 2008, 19:32:33 PM
ahhh, makes sense

hehe thanks

its going in the kitchen door which has anouther we can close through to the kitchen, as we are moving to an estate we cant  have a dog flap like we do now lol
Title: Re: cat flaps
Post by: Kirst on November 07, 2008, 19:38:50 PM
I like the look of the microchip flaps but they are quite pricey!
Title: Re: cat flaps
Post by: tigerbaby on November 07, 2008, 19:58:31 PM
We got ours from Argos, the cheapest standard one - and we put it on our kitchen door. It is really good and not drafty at all! I think it was £5.98.
Title: Re: cat flaps
Post by: Gill (sneakiefeline) on November 07, 2008, 20:02:28 PM
Tunnels through a wall can have a flap at each end, thats how my brothers is