There were many reasons to remove the pet door on my new house: i don't currently have any pets, and when I *have* had pets they've always been indoor creatures; it was old, and not especially secure, and half falling apart; i want to eventually build a bookshelf partition/room-screen type thing right where the pet door was to create a little office space in the corner of a larger room, so if I *did* someday want to put in a pet door i'd need it to be somewhere else.

But the best reason to remove the pet door and seal up the hole in the wall? When I took the pet door apart, the whole space was *filled* *with* *spiders*!!! O.o

[i'm not sure "better" is the right word to use here, but hit 'Z' for bigger spiders...]