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Atticus is bell-trained and hasn't had any accidents in the house since he was three or four months old, so I'm now ready to consider him "seriously house-broken" and therefore also ready to install a doggy door to make it easier on everyone.
My husband's top concern in choosing a doggy door is security. Hence, he's sold on the idea of one of those ultra-expensive ones that are controlled by a sensor in the dog's collar.
My biggest concern is heat loss, hence I want one that is well-insulated and has a flap and seal that don't leave us heating our back yard. I'm also not real wild about the fact that the sizes of the inserts necessary for Boxers cut the access through the door by humans to less than half its standard width.
The ONLY way into our back yard is through the sliding glass patio door. There honestly isn't even a foot of space anywhere else along the back wall for a dog door.
Finally, our patio door (heck, every window in our house) is substandard crap that I'd replace tomorrow if we had the $$$. So when I look at the price of my husband's preferred doggy door option (upwards of five hundred), coupled with the fact that it would be a good investment to completely replace this patio door anyway, I start to dream that maybe there are actually companies out there that specialize in exactly this sort of thing: Custom made sliding glass doors with pet-access. But I googled it and came up empty. So now I'm "googling" here.
Can anyone point me to a source that can provide us with the custom-made, high-security, energy-efficient solution I dream of?
AnnA
My husband's top concern in choosing a doggy door is security. Hence, he's sold on the idea of one of those ultra-expensive ones that are controlled by a sensor in the dog's collar.
My biggest concern is heat loss, hence I want one that is well-insulated and has a flap and seal that don't leave us heating our back yard. I'm also not real wild about the fact that the sizes of the inserts necessary for Boxers cut the access through the door by humans to less than half its standard width.
The ONLY way into our back yard is through the sliding glass patio door. There honestly isn't even a foot of space anywhere else along the back wall for a dog door.
Finally, our patio door (heck, every window in our house) is substandard crap that I'd replace tomorrow if we had the $$$. So when I look at the price of my husband's preferred doggy door option (upwards of five hundred), coupled with the fact that it would be a good investment to completely replace this patio door anyway, I start to dream that maybe there are actually companies out there that specialize in exactly this sort of thing: Custom made sliding glass doors with pet-access. But I googled it and came up empty. So now I'm "googling" here.
Can anyone point me to a source that can provide us with the custom-made, high-security, energy-efficient solution I dream of?
AnnA