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What is the best way to allow your pet to have the freedom to let himself in or out without bothering you?

The answer is to install one of the popular Electronic pet doors.

Electronic Pet Doors have special locking features that only your pet can open. The vertically sliding motorized door is electronically activated by a small sensor which is easily and comfortably attached to your pet's collar. All electronic pet doors are designed to keep intruders out.

Electronic pet doors sense a collar key, then unlock only for your pet. This keeps out other pets and animals, while allowing your pet freedom. A number of different kinds of collar keys have been tried in the past to trigger elctronic pet doors including infra-red, high pitched sound (ultrasonic) and magnets. Today, most use the infra-red trigger.

There are three main reasons to get one of these electronic pet doors:

• To let your pets in and out while keeping out neighborhood pets and other animals.
• Keep one pet in, often a cat, while letting others out.
• For security reasons--a person can't get in either.

Some electronic pet doors works with Infrared rays. Generally, a electronic pet doors setup has 2 or 3 items, which includes pet door panel, a small device in way of collar that can be attached to your pet collar for giving or receiving signals and the battery kit which generally is optional and is available on some extra price.

Installation of electronic pet doors are like other pet doors, but you have to take care that if you choose the direct power supply mode to operate these doors rather then dry battery mode, then you would require to have a outlet near the door so that the AC cable can be plugged into it. As you would do with any new electronic device, please test your new electronic pet door to be certain that it operates successfully in the environment you have chosen for it prior to installation.

Prices for these doors vary depending on the functions they offer and also the size of the door. Many come in small, medium or large depending on the size of your pet. The larger the size door required, the more money you will need to spend. While these doors may be pricey, they are wll worth the investment. They help cut down on accidents and save you valuable time.

Article Published: Thursday 7th June 2007