By Dustin Simpson
If you travel with furry friends, especially dogs, I’m sure you all dread having to let them in and out a hundred times a day. Here are a few ways you can add a pet door or a pet screen to your RV. This will free up some time for you to do other things!
Adding a pet screen door in your RV can let your dogs and cats go in or out freely enough without asking for your help to open the RV screen door or cause damage to it. You can also upgrade the screen to aluminum or thicker fiberglass mesh for additional durability.
Pet screen doors for RVs
This particular pet screen door is available in black or white and it also comes in two sizes.
Small opening sizes 9.6″ high and 8.2″ wide (Flap door size)
Large opening sizes 13″ high and 11″ wide (Flap door size)
You can find both colors and sizes here.
Additional items and tools:
- Pet Proof Window Screen – Thicker charcoal fiberglass mesh is three times the thickness of an average screen.
- Screen Rolling Tool
- 3 Pcs Screen Tool
Now let’s talk pet doors for RVs
The pet door is great for your RV interior or exterior doors, it will fit all doors between 1/16 inches and 2 inches thick. You can add it to an entry door, as shown below, or a passing door inside, or even a compartment door.
Available in white paintable frame, it also comes in four sizes.
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I have to disagree about the use of a pet door. Allowing your dog to come and go as they please is not a good idea. Even though you may think your pet is well trained and friendly, having it wander at will is a problem waiting to happen. Plus, it’s against the rules at most RV parks and campgrounds. You need to have your buddy under your control at all times.
We stayed at a campground in Florida that does not even allow portable fence use.
Just because you can, should you? When it comes to pet doors in a RV, I’d say that except for some VERY limited instances, no.
On the flip side Dustin. I have made the screen door more pet tear-proof. And given how easy it is for many pets to open most RV screen doors when they are in and we are out, we have adopted the habit of using the folding step handle as a secondary lock to keep that from happening.
Thank you, Dustin! 🙂 Unfortunately, given campground requirements concerning leashed pets, this seems a case of a solution looking for a problem. It seems most useful if one is a long-term camper with underskirting and a fenced pet area adjacent to the RV. Hitch and Arvie are adorable, Dustin! Thanks again and safe travels! 🙂
Pet doors are great when they open to a fenced yard not so when at a campground or back country. Where I often camp a lone dog wandering around may soon become lunch. We make a comment when we bring a pet along take the time to walk them or be with them outside. They are never too busy or tired to please you do the same for them. Bottom line thumbs down on a RV pet door. JMHO
We don’t even have a dog door at the house with a 3/4 acre fenced in backyard. I let them out and most of the time I go out with them to just interact and walk with them off leash. Theses folks that put up 2 -3 foot fences around there RVs is just so silly, a bobcat, coyote, wolf, bears can go over them. Not to mention the liability of someone saying your dog tried to bite me, that starts lawsuits and AC control and make your life miserable. I love my fur kids to much to take chances of losing them.
Great article. By chance did you make a video of these installs?