We have just installed a Pet Safe Training Systems Cat Flap (from the
Doctors Smith and Foster catalogue) in the door between our bedroom
and the rest of our apartment.  In weather like this (and in the early
Fall) when it is very warm on some days but cools way down on others,
we use our individual Air Conditioner window unit in the bedroom only
(the apartment building does not turn on the general A/C for the rest
of the units until late May).  It is better for us to have cooler air
to sleep in, and the cats enjoy it too.  BUT, they need 24 hour access
to their litter box and food/water which are in other parts of the
apartment.  We used to move their litter box and food/water into the
bedroom, but they still cried to get out and have the run of the rest
of the rooms. Big Nuisance!  Now, with the cat flap, our hope is that
we will not have to shut them out of the bedroom while we have the
door closed for the window A/C unit. The cats will go through it--but
only when we lift the flap for them or give them a little push through
it! They don't seem to mind being pushed a bit to use it, but we want
them to use it on their own!

How do you train a cat to use this thing?  Our cats are Amaretto (Seal
Point Siamese, age 13 on May 13--just two weeks away--who has
home-controled diabetes) and his half brother Alino (Blue Point
Siamese, age 13 on June 23, who is on Lactulose for a problem with
chronic constipation).

TIA

PegNDerek

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