Dog Door: Why You Should Go For It

Article Title: Dog Door: Why You Should Go For It
Author: Cherdkiat Taesookavat

Why you should have dog door

For house owners who are pet lovers, especially cats and dog
playing around the house can see the benefit of having dog door
which allows your dogs to go out and come into the house freely.
And this can save your time that bothering you when you have to
struggle in the early morning to wake up to your howling dog
out or when your dog want to defecate, then they can go outside
to the backyard. However, this is just only few example of
benefit of having a dog door in your house. The following
detail will describe more about other reasons why all of pet
lovers need a dog door as well as types of dog doors which you
have to carefully choose to fit your objective.

Manual dog door

When we talk about manual dog door we generally refer an common
flap that installed on to the lower part of the door (usually
ground level), which can be made from wood, plastic or metal to
let dogs or cats come in and go out freely. Even though manual
dog door has plenty of benefits such as cheap and easy to
maintain but it also has problems too. That is basically the
dog door will have no permanent lock attached on it so this is
the good opportunity to let other types of animal to come into
the house, which some times they are dangerous such as snake.
Moreover, if in your area have some stray dogs and cats around
and you are using manual dog door these cats and dogs may come
into your house easily. In case if you have a large dog door
this will allow other kind of bigger animals come into your
house.

Electronic and magnetic dog doors

Electronic dog door will remain shut as long as the dog comes
close to it. The door mechanism works when the electronic
infrared censor can trigger of the dog movement when it comes
close to the door then the door will open. Meanwhile the
magnetic type triggers the signal from the dog collar to let
the door open. These two types of dog door are generally
expensive but they are very effective and you can make sure
that only you cats and dogs can come into the house. However,
there are some people attached the magnetic dog door to the
house security alarm, which will help you to increase overall
security of the house.

What to consider before you buy a dog door

There were something that you need to consider before you buy
dog doors regardless to the types of the one that you will buy.
The first thing that you have to consider is security purposes.
The locking pane of a dog door must be securely installed
because sometimes cats and dogs may hit the lock and the lock
pane will drop off. If it is not properly secured, you may
consider the type that has a pane that can drop into place over
the hole.

Other thing that you have to consider is you have to make sure
that the installation is complete without small whole that hot
or cold air inside the house leak to outside. For people who
live in hot zone may not worry too much about this but however,
you still have to make sure that the dog door is properly sealed
when it closes.

About The Author: Cherdkiat Taesookavat is an architect,
providing information and directories about home decor, please
visit http://www.dogdoorweb.com/

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