Data collected from each cat in the sample

The cat identification, sex [male (1) and female (2)], age (yrs), weight (kgs), neurotic personality score (shown as a percentage), number of GPS points (total after filtering), road density (m), presence of a major road, participation date, and the 100% MCP, 95% KDE, and 50% KDE home ranges (ha) for each cat sampled in the study. All cats were desexed. Personality scores were obtained from a survey based on the "Feline Five" (Litchfield et al., 2017). Bold cats are considered to have a low neurotic score. Road density was estimated by summing road lengths within a fixed boundary, centred on each cat's mean latitude and longitude coordinates. The variable "major road" indicated the presence (1) or absence (0) of a major road within the boundary. Roads were labelled as "major" based on traffic rates. The ordinal date represents the first day of GPS data collection.</p

The sex [Male (1) and female (2)] age (in years), weight (in lbs), #GPS Points (total after filtering), and the 100% MCP, 95% KDE, and 50% KDE home ranges (ha) for all cats sampled in the study. All cats were desexed. The personality scores (shown as a percent), were obtained from a survey, based on the “Feline Five” (Litchfield et al., 2017), that evaluated how much owners agreed or disagreed that their cats showed certain traits. Traits were then summed and converted into percentages. Bold cats are considered to have a low neuroticism score. Road density was estimated by summing the road lengths, measured in meters, within a fixed boundary centred on each cat’s mean latitude and longitude coordinates. The variable “major road” indicated the presence (1) or absence (0) of a major road near the cat’s home range. Roads were labeled as “major” based on Google Maps’ classification, related to traffic rates, and through “ground-truthing”.

Domestic cats (Felis catus) play a dual role in society as both companion animals and predators. When provided with unsupervised outdoor access, cats can negatively impact native wildlife and create public health and animal welfare challenges. The effective implementation of management strategies, such as buffer zones or curfews, requires an understanding of home range size, the factors that influence their movement, and the types of habitats they use. Here, we used a community/citizen scientist approach to collect movement and habitat use data using GPS collars on owned outdoor cats in the Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge-Guelph region, southwestern Ontario, Canada.</p