PetSafe Never Rust Electronic Pet Door - Automatic Dog Door with Sensor Collar Key - Smart Dog Door for Large Dogs up to 100 lb

I reluctantly purchased this doggie door after reading all the terrible reviews, as a last resort. We are a family of cat lovers who inherited a dog when a family member passed away and are learning to live with him. He had a doggie door his entire life before us but when we took him in we chose to try to train him to ask to go outside so our cats didn't get out. We spend 2 years trying to train him and all we ended up with is a wall in our hallway that needed sheetrock replaced because he peed on it repeatedly and LOTS of frustrations. We decided to try a regular doggie door and see how our cats did going out because we couldn't find any electronic doggie door with even semi-good reviews. The cats loved going out but one started roaming too much and another one loved to hunt and brought us lots of half dead animals (lizards, mice, moles and SNAKES). We also had 2 stray cats decide to wander in our house in the middle of the night. Waking up to a strange animal in your house is no fun. I include these things for anyone considering a traditional doggie door who has never had one. On to the Petsafe electronic door. We ended up having our handyman install the door so I can't really comment on installation. We were installing in a metal door and didn't have the tools to cut through the door so I didn't even try. I had read a comment on here about making sure the door was level and passed that along to him. He said he put it in and was having a bit of trouble getting it working right so he loosened the screws and re-leveled to get it working. This makes me think being level is quite important, as would make sense for a swinging door. We have had this door for a week now and it is working great for us. It makes a pretty loud click when it unlocks. This scared the dog a bit in the beginning but he is used to it now. He has to be in the range for about 15 seconds for the door to unlock. The range can be adjusted so maybe it would open quicker if I adjusted it but I like it taking him standing in range for a bit for it to unlock so it doesn't unlock every time he walks by. In the beginning he would try to get out the door before it was unlocked but has now learned to wait for the click to know it is unlocked. To teach him to go out the door I held the door open and showed him it was just like his old doggie door. When I tried to get him to go out on his own he didn't seem to understand that he could open it by himself as this door seals tightly unike a flap door. I gave him a little nudge from behind a couple of times to push his nose into the door and he quickly realized he could open it this way. Next, I stood outside the door and gave him treats when he came out, then moved back inside and did the same. It took about 5 days for him to get really comfortable with the door but now he uses it just fine. We have not had any issues with the door not opening when it is supposed to. It has not gotten stuck once. It closes quickly behind him and locks in about 15 seconds. So far our cats have not tried to go out behind him, but I do realize this is a very real possibility. The door is pretty loud when it locks/unlocks and swings so thus far the cats have only investigated from a distance. So far we love the door and it has saved my sanity (I couldn't take another half dead animal coming in my house, my kitties roaming off and getting injured, or another midnight visit from a strange animal) but, I am still a bit skeptical. With so many bad reviews I am just waiting for this thing to break any day. I will update this review if my opinion changes from my current 5 star rating. ****Update August 6, 2012**** At this point I would give this product more than 5 stars if I could! We have not had a single problem with it, I'm not sure if this is luck on our part, but I'm not questioning it :-). It has never gotten stuck or locked our dog out or in. I had to change the battery in the collar today. A red light came on on the collar unit to notify me it was dead, I replaced it and it worked just the same again. One of our cats has learned to go out of the door, in fact he has trained the dog to let him out when he wants out (it took him about a month to figure it out). He will meow at the door like something important is going on until the dog comes to check it out. The dog then stands there confused trying to figure out what the cat is yelling about and unlocks the door for him. As soon as the cat hears the click he is out the door! Whoever said dogs are smarter than cats hasn't lived with both ;-). This really hasn't been an issue because he always comes back quickly and hasn't yet trained the dog to let him in so I have to let him back in (the doggy door is in the garage so I know he always has a safe, cooler place to go) preventing him from bringing any of his half dead prey in the house with him. Our other 2 cats still have no interest in going near this door even though they used to go out the regular doggy door all the time. I think the noise of it still scares them, they are both more timid than the fearless hunter who has it all figured out. If you are like me and questioning this door because of the terrible reviews, I think it is definitely worth a try, just make sure you are precise in installing the door.

DO NOT IGNORE THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS! There is no way this door will serve as anything more, than just a temporary solution. You WILL be searching for a new one soon, and might as well have flushed your money on this down the drain. Just go with a regular doggie door. I found immediately that there was 0 reason to buy something electronic over manual, by about the second day. And after a year and month, I came home to find the door snapped off, and a wide gaping hole in my door. Whoever designed this decided it was a great idea to make the hinges plastic. Well give those some time in the sun to get brittle, and you too will come home to find a hole in your door. Upon contacting customer service, I received "Well it's past the year warranty, so there's nothing we can do. We'd be glad to help you buy another." Sure. Let me spend another $100 to buy a year's worth of non-holed door. Yeah I get it...it went past the year they covered it. But those plastic hinges WILL go out, and this company knows that. WHY get this one and guarantee yourself another doggie door expense in a year or two? What's worse, you'll have cut a hole in your door for this thing, and will have to worry about cutting a new hole for another brand. Because I guarantee you will be buying another brand. -After thinking it was the most amazing invention ever that I needed to have, I found no need for the electronic feature on this door. Nice in theory, not so much in practice. If you attach their collars, you will hear the door snapping loudly open, and then closed, every single time the dog is anywhere near. That wouldn't be so terrible, if this thing wasn't a battery vampire, and the sound of the snapping didn't signal dollars flying out of your pockets. 4 massive batteries, every 3 or so months. And that was AFTER I shut off the automatic feature, and only opened/closed it manually twice a day. If you buy this door, it will be sucking that money out of you for as long as that lasts (fortunately....that shouldn't be much more than a year). More than likely you'll be like me, grow tired of the automatic feature, and just open close it on your own...so why not save the battery money and just get a regular doggie door? Who needs such a high maintenance doggie door? -My door flat out snapped OFF. I could almost guarantee yours won't last much longer without the door snapping off. But even if it didn't break in that manner, it's only a matter of time before the electronics go out on it. So why add additional things that can go wrong? If you're going to be manually telling it to stay shut, or to stay open (as I was), then you might as well just get a manual one, and never have to fear the day a gear is going to go out. -It's drafty. I must have lost a few hundred bucks in heating / cooling on this thing (no really. I was bewildered at first, and called the electric company to yell at them about it. "I haven't changed my habits from last year to this! I never saw a bill above $70 before, now I can't seem to see anything below $100! You crooks!"). "Locked", merely means the door will move down, and a few teeth will lock in at the bottom so it doesn't swing anymore. It is NOT sealed around the edges. If you are a prude about having an efficient home like me, you'll despise feeling the cold pouring into your house in the winter, and the air conditioning pouring out in the summer. All they had to do was put some plastic sleeves on the sides for the door to tuck into. They didn't. Just don't bother folks. Buy a quality manual one, and be done with doggie doors for the remainder of the time you're in that house. I bought a Perfect Pet All Weather door to replace this (more expensive though), and that thing is awesome. Muuuuuch better about being sealed. And if I want to close it? Just slide a sturdy piece of plastic into the holders. No more worrying about how I'm eating through another 4 batteries. No more worrying about the day it stops working and leaves your dogs locked in/out. Furthermore, they sell slides that have alarms on them to let you know if someone opened it.

Ich kann die ganzen guten Bewertungen leider überhaupt nicht nachvollziehen. An den Seiten ist leider ein Spalt, sodass die Lift sehr stark durchzieht. Zudem konnte ich nicht finden wie man die den Hunden implantierten Chips speichert. Zuletzt muss ich leider sagen dass ich die Qualität für den Preis wirklich schlecht finde.

Calibration a bit tricky. Dog has trouble because it won’t open fast enough and she gets confused. The small size is very small and out dog is under 10 lbs and has to squeeze through. She wo t go out by herself cuz she doesn’t understand she has to wait, but she comes back in by herself since she ores before it locks. That’s good enough for me right now. I still recommend the product. Keeps the cats in. Keep kids away though!

We got this so we can keep the cat inside but let the Labrador come and go as he wants. The size is great for him (he’s a 30kg lab). Installation was easy and the instructions it comes with were really thorough and made it straight forward to get it set up. Once it was set up, it only took the dog about a day to figure out how to use it. I read a lot of reviews complaining about how noisy it is, and it does make a loud click when it unlocks, but honestly I don’t think it’s that bad. My dog listens for the click to know when the doors open for him and I quite like the peace of mind of hearing it click so I know when he’s coming/going. The first one we had delivered was faulty, and so I called customer service and they helped me trouble shoot, then had a warranty claim processed and a new one sent out within the day. I was so impressed with the customer service. All in all, this isn’t a 100% perfect product, but given the price and how few other options there are on the market I think it does very well, and most importantly my dog is happy.

Genial, super buen producto, funcionamiento excelente y facil programacion con las llaves, igual si lo quieres dejar libre sin el uso del acceso de las llaves, excelente producto para el acceso de tus mascotas a casa y viceversa

The first one that I had, lasted about 15 years, and this replacement looks to have similar quality.