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.