EXTREMELY OT! I built a doggie door!!!

Leslie, the flap on our doggie door wore out and it was going to be over $30 to replace it! I went to Wally World and for $2 bought a clear car mat. One of the small ones for the back seat. I cut it to fit and it is perfect.

Cindy

Well if it was a QI door than you might be On Topic? And since you are readying for a quilt show it might be anyway : )

Your door sounds great. We could really use a doggie door. Our problem is the inside only cats. Other than getting the pricey doggie door with the radio control that the pooch wears I can't think of anything else that would work. Anyone have any other ideas for letting the dog out but keeping the cats in? Anyone have the electronic one that can give a review? Georgia is kind of a weenie and I don't get too far away but there are times I need to and winter is coming.

You guys have fun at the show. TAria

Leslie & The Furbabies > My hubby won't be available tomorrow to tend to The HairyButt Gang's

WTG Leslie, you innovative and crafty little handywoman! Sounds like a super idea and also sounds like you did a dog-gone good job!

Leslie, that is too cool! And my poor Clifford goes for many, many hours on the days (2-3 times a week) that DH and I both work. But if he gets put in the backyard he digs out. Doesn't go anyplace but still...

Leslie, we have a doggie door (not custom-made though ) for our sliding door, and we love it! I hope you'll find yours as easy and convenient as we do ours. :)

Wow, you are handy! I'd love to have a kitty-door, but I'm afraid of a different type of unwanted guest. We have so many racoons and such.

Sherry

Our doggy door stays locked except for just a nose hole. Yorkies shouldn't go out alone but they certainly do like to poke their little button noses out and do a weather check. We really should offer his services to the tv weatherman. Yogi is extremely accurate about bad weather coming in. Doggy doors in gator country are not a good idea. If they want to complain about the food supply, we'd rather they do it outside. Polly

Believe me, the cats will convince the dog to let them out.

NightMist

Right-O. My son installed a control collar activated door The dogs were the only ones with the collars but it only took a few weeks for his cats to figure out who to follow closely or scoot between doggy legs. His one cat would even sit outside and yeeeeowl for the dog to come poke his head through to open the flap so he could get in. If there is no supervision you'll most likely have a problem.

Val

Necessity is, most definitely, the mother of invention. Good for you Leslie - what an idea! I'm very impressed. Have a wonderful day - wish I was joining you and Jan. . In message , Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. writes

Its just frogs that are my problem - Kiwi collects them! - alive!!

When I lived in Sydney my darling Tuppy brought me two medium-sized red belly black snakes on different casions - both alive! Dropped them proudly at my feet as a gift. I had a h*** of a time catching them and evicting them.

The cat across the road brought his owner a five foot long tiger snake and played with it on the kitchen floor as she screamed for help from atop the bench. She had her husband nail up the cat door that afternoon.

Ooopps! Sorry - didn't want to put anyone off having a pet door. lol My cats quickly learned not to bring things inside, and I lock the doors at night to keep "visitors" out.

Well done Leslie. I'm sure your furry butt gang appreciate your thoughtfulness.

I've always heard that when a cat brings you dead prey, it's a gift. When she brings you live prey, she is trying to teach you to hunt! :-)

Sherry

LOL! Polly, you do have a way of making me laugh. You make every day better!

Debi, ours were doing that so DH put up a wire about 6 inches from the ground all around the perimeter. It connects to a transformer that plugs in. Cost about $50 I think and was well worth the money. It can't hurt them (DH tests it on himself all the time to make sure it's working), but it sure stopped the escaping.

Now, if we could just figure out how to stop Maggie from lifting open the dog door thingie when they must be locked in the garage. We tried duct tape and she tore off every piece and lifted the door. It slides shut too fast for Starr to escape.

Cindy

I have no intention of frog hunting .........ever.

Hodge brought us a dead bird to admire this evening. It is the first time he has ever brought anything. (He is 10). However, it was the suicidal one that killed itself this morning by crashing against a window and disappeared into the shrubbery. We couldn't find it, but Hodge could.

Leslie

If I may make one suggestion for your lovely contraption, buy the locks for the slide tracks for the top and bottom, so you can lock the slide against the PVC frame and so the dogs don't jostle the slide open with their comings and goings enough to pop the doggy door out.

Even better take and old broom handle and cut it to fit in the track firmly, tacka piece of rope around one end so you can pull it up when you need to go through the door in a manner other then crawling. :-)

Sounds like a cool door..

Jenn in CA - who misses her doggy door - but can't have one till the property is officially fenced in. Cliff the Mutt and Oscar the dog love to travel the neighbor hood when left out together for more than

PS. Thank to you I am now thinking about build a kitty window door in this manner so my not so darling Nemo will stop breaking my wooden blinds in his efforts to get out a slightly open window at night.

Cindy-

I bought the car mats on the way home from the quilt show- they are just perfect! I had to use the larger front mats, but the idea was brilliant! I used those plastic strap thingies to make a loop and it swings from holes punched in the mats- no hinges for this gal! I do it the easy way at every chance. Thank you for a wonderful solution. ;-)

Leslie & The > Leslie, the flap on our doggie door wore out and it was going to be over $30

Oh, that's great, Leslie. I'm so glad it worked for you.

So, what did you think? Was the Best in Show quilt the most gorgeous thing you've ever seen? I thought that background was solid black and was so surprised when I saw that it had leaves in it. Beautiful!

Did you see Jane Anderson's 2 quilts? One was black with flower circle appliqué and one was pieced with yellow sunbursts in the corners. That was hand stippling on both of those! They hung in our show here in Pittsburg on Labor Day. Gorgeous.

Cindy