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
