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“It’s time to install a cat door,” Randye sighed. “I’m sick of people coming to the house and looking into our messy laundry room.”

“I’m sure they don’ t mind,” I replied, thinking it wasn’t a big deal.

“Well, whether they do or not isn’t really the main point,” she responded. “I don’t want our son crawling in there and shoveling handfuls of cat litter into his mouth because he thinks the texture is really cool.”

And so I installed the cat door…

After purchasing the cat door for “bigger cats” and paying extra money in shipping because Bouche is such a fat $%#@, and the fact that we couldn’t find a local store that carried doors for the feline version of big and tall men, I declared war on my poor laundry room door.

I tried three makeshift, homemade methods of measuring and stenciling a circle for the initial cut and settled on a stencil made from a leftover pizza box. I took my drill and made a number of small holes next to each other along the top line of the stenciled circle. I drilled enough holes to fit the plastic/particle board blade for my Craftsman reciprocating saw. I sent Randye and our baby boy upstairs and waded in, sawing a circle within the inner frame of the door.

When the dust settled, I took a step back to check out my handy work and was rather impressed that I didn’t destroy the door.

A cat’s-eye view of the door hole.

The next step involved wrestling with the miscellaneous pieces of cat door to get them together from both sides of the door. Then it was a matter of getting the four screws in and fastening the cat door frame together.

I must be honest. It was surprisingly easy. I started the job with some trepidation after reading countless nightmare reviews from cat door purchasers, but my experience was not so bad. And the end product is not too shabby.

The paper towels are for cat drool on the door.