Great for Princess Kate

Access Magnetics (RANGER) are great to work with and the closed pet doors are no colder than our very-well-insulated walls during our VERY frigid winter weather which is amazing!  These pet doors are well-built, like good-quality windows, and seal up so much better than normal dog doors which are pneumonia holes.

Our dog doors came out very nice. (Not sure if I ever sent photos.) We had them trimmed out to match the rest of the house. On the outside of the upper level door, we made some temporary steps out of concrete block. (Dear Husband is planning to build nice steps later that will match our Trex decking.) We found the placement/removal of the locking pane a bit awkward at first, but now it is quite easy – such a great design!  Upstairs the pane fits perfectly behind my pot rack. On the lower level DH put up two L brackets so we could hang the pane on the wall when it is out.

We picked up our Vizsla puppy in Logan, Utah mid-December 2017.  Princess Kate was (and still is) absolutely adorable and such a good girl:

She is SO smart and has the very best temperament. The breeder has several little children and made sure the pups were well-handled as he went through the “super-puppy” regiment with them daily for their first eight weeks. Kati is by far the best Vizsla we have had. All Vizslas are high-strung but she is much more resilient and accepting than our others have been. It doesn’t even faze her to be left home alone for several hours.

The instructor at our puppy class said Kati would not learn to use the dog doors until summer. Ha Ha. She was dashing in and out by March. She is a VERY active dog and goes through her two dog doors dozens of times every day. She likes to run “zoomers” as fast as she can down the interior stairs, down the hall, through the lower-level dog door, round the yard, up the hill and through the upper-level dog door, often with a stuffy or other toy in her mouth, over and over. She is very fast and very agile as you can see from this photo on one of our morning hikes behind the house.

I worried that the solid door might be a problem. How could she tell if we had it locked shut or not? As it turns out, it has not been a problem at all. We have a routine. Both doors are locked up at night so she has to use the people door if she needs a midnight potty stop. In the morning we open the upper door and it is usually open all day. The lower door is open if we are where we can keep an eye on things as it is much more accessible to visitors. Consequently, if Kati wants to go through at a time that she suspects a door may be locked she batts at it to check before barreling through. If she has just come through and knows it is open, she blasts through in a blur.

Hope your company continues to do well.  It is so good that finally SOMEONE is making good quality dog doors.