Flipper's Story

Flipper’s first cat door was a low-cost non-selective type which within weeks was being used by several of the neighborhood’s cats.  Tired of frequent cat fights and spraying incidents in the kitchen his owner, SureFlap inventor Dr. Nick Hill, purchased a magnetic cat door.

Flipper was unimpressed with the collar he had to wear to operate the cat door and was forever clawing at it.  He finally managed to lose the collar and was left out in the cold all night.  Given the price of a new collar and tag, it became apparent that Flipper’s antics could prove costly.

Nick looked at the other selective entry cat doors on the market and found that they all required Flipper to wear a collar.  As a physicist, Nick realized the potential of using Flipper’s identification microchip to operate a cat door.

Three years’ of intensive research and development later, Nick launched the SureFlap Microchip Cat Door in early 2008.  Flipper is much happier now…SureFlap was worth the wait.