Pet Porte Microchip Cat Flap Helps Keeps Cats Inside On Fireworks Night

Online, September 22, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Nottingham, England (22 September, 2010) - Autumn and winter nights can be very scary for cats because of fireworks going off.

The ultra modern cat flap known as the Pet Porte Smart Flap is a highly advanced type of cat flap. It features a microchip scanner that reads your cat trying to get in using their pre-existing microchip implant and a novel light sensor that can automatically keep your cats in at night and let them out again in the morning when it gets light.

Invented by a veterinarian from Guernsey, Channel Islands, David Chamberlain, the Pet Porte Smart Flap features the latest microchip technology - a proven effective method to identify animals - letting owners cats in and keeping other cats out. The night mode automatically locks the cat flap to keep cats in at night but will still let cats come back inside if they return home late in the evening.

Chamberlain, the inventor of Pet Porte Smart Flap, thought about this modern cat flap when a client asked him for assistance as other cats were coming into the client's ordinary cat flap. He added the night sensor because stress induced by fireworks is one of the main causes of stress in cats during the autumn. Stress can manifest itself in behaviours such as the cat withdrawing and a generalised fear of loud noises.

Today in the United Kingdom, cats are one of the most popular pets and most cat owners allow their cats to venture outdoors. While access of cats to outdoors has its advantages, it also brought a lot of disadvantages. Many of those using ordinary cat flaps found their homes violated - their furniture destroyed, their homes sprayed, not by their precious cats, but by other tom cats and bully cats.

With an ordinary cat flap, any cats or any animals or any moving object can enter - many cats are strong enough to barge through other types of locking cat flaps. Experts even say that there's a possibility that foxes can enter through an ordinary cat flap. The Pet Porte Smart Flap protects cats from the danger of foxes that are most active at night and the risk of them being run at night by cars, dazzled by the bright headlights.

The Pet Porte Smart Flap is available exclusively online from Microchip Cat Flaps Ltd at http://www.microchipcatflaps.co.uk/ who ship the product worldwide. They can be reached by telephone on +44 115 9400 899 or email [email protected]