Ideal Pet Products Screen Fit Pet Door, 8-7/8″ x 10-1/2″ Flap Size

Install was easy except for pounding it together.
Installation of this was easy except for the need to pound the sides of the frame together with a mallet. I wish they would have just made use of the amazing simple machine known as “the screw” to fasten the halves of the frame.Suggestion to those trying to get a cat to use it: If you just install a cat flap and do nothing it will take them forever to figure out that it’s a door they can use.Get you and the cat on opposite sides, pull the thing open toward you (use painter’s tape to help), hold it open, and lure the cat through with cat treats. This gets them used to the idea that there’s something for them to walk through.Don’t drop the flap on their back yet though, lure them back and forth a few times holding it open.After that, do the same but gently set the flap on their back when they re half way through. This gets them used to the idea that the flap is not heavy enough to crush them and isn’t being forced down by some mechanism.Do that a few times.Finally pull the thing open only a little bit and try to Iure them through to get them to try pushing it open themselves.After doing that a few times just try to lure them through without helping them any.This might take one day or might take more than one but it’s better than just sitting around waiting for them to figure everything out themselves.I didn’t find the magnets too strong but kitty still seems suspicious of this particular cat flap just because it’s not exactly the size he’s used to. (It’s a little bigger.)

Ideal Pet Door is a Great Product But Don’t Expect Pets To Master Using it Right Away
The Ideal Screen Fit Pet Door is a great product, but it requires patience and ingenuity on the part of the pet-parent and involves a learning process on the part of the pet. Don’t expect your pet to instantly take to it. So I have had the Ideal Products Pet Screen Door installed for a bit over a month now. I had the door installed by a handyman. Two magnets work in tandem to ensure that the door shuts tight after the pet passes through the door (one in the door, one in the frame), and when the door arrived, the one in the frame had fallen out (my only criticism). I made sure that the handyman was aware that he needed to orient the offending magnet correctly in order for the magnets to attract rather than repel one another so that the door closes properly. Getting the height of the door right is important. After eyeballing my cats, I had the handyman install the door one inch above the frame of the screen, and for my cats and my porch, that seems to be the perfect height. Once the door was installed, I followed the lead of another reviewer and rigged the door to stay open all of the time, and left it that way for about 10 days, or until the two cats were used to the pet door being there, and were using it freely to go in and out onto the porch. Then I closed the door, and when the cats wanted to go out, I would grasp their bodies and gently push them through the door, head first, so that they would understand they needed to use their heads to push the door open. One cat has a tendency to try to open the door using her paws, which aren’t strong enough to move the door, and makes it appear as if she is trying to play patty-cake with the door! She is getting the hang of it slowly, although the fact that the door opens vertically rather than horizontally, like all of the other doors she is familiar with, seems to throw her off a bit, and she keeps trying to push through on the side. We are still in the learning process. Both cats still want me to open the door for them. I try to resist, but often give in. Once outside, the cats will often return through the door on their own, but sometimes, such as right at this very moment, my male cat will sit outside the door crying plaintively, and I will try to ignore him for as long as I can, so that he tries to come in on his own. While the cats are still in the learning process, I do love this pet door, and am so grateful to have it installed, as it gives the cats more freedom and frees me up as well–and best of all, the fruit flies that used to plague me are all gone!

Excellent product in all ways size and quality for money

Mi Lhasa apso cabe muy bien y no es pesada