The Cat Flap and the Nasty Wooden Door

If you read the post about the birthday french door, you may be wondering what we were going to do about the cat flap. We had planned on putting the cat flap in the new french door, but, if you know me, you know that I like pretty things and I was just not keen on having a cat flap in my beautiful new birthday french door. Another problem was the security gate. It was just not possible to align any of the rectangular panes of the french door with the diamond shaped concertina security gate when it is closed. We were not keen on leaving a window ajar for the cats as they make an incredible mess on the walls when coming in or going out. It is also a security risk as well as another permanent opening that will chill us to the bone in winter. We walked around the house racking our brains about where to put the flap when I spotted another of our ugly and definitely nasty doors. It is the door in the lounge/dining-roomIt is already such an eye-sore that it would not make any difference if there was a cat flap in it or not. With a few measurements and some power tools, the cat flap was ready for its new home.

 Here is the inside of the ugly door, with the cat flap freshly installed. We were not sure that it would fit because it is mainly a glass door, but, with a few, measurements we could see that it was possible to fit it into the wooden base of the door. This part of the door also does not open.

 Here is the other side of the door. Rob did not want to put the cat flap cover on the outside of the door because he said that it looked even more ugly with it on. Seriously, can you get more ugly? Do you see all that grey stuff? That is tiling grout! The people who lived in our house before tried to fill up this half rotting door with tiling grout!?! Well, they are also the ones who built a wendy house over a pool so I guess that is understandable!

 Dale was quick to find his door in a new location and to try it out.

 I called him and he came right through.

What a super star! Dominic we had to catch (he can be very skittish when you call him as he always assumes that you are out to get him or take him to the vet!) and push him through once so that he knew where it was. He is also using the door like a champ. Clever kitties for using their new door, clever Rob for installing it and clever Kimi for finding a new location for the cat flap!