Understanding Your Cat's Journey: From Outdoor to Indoor Living |
Have you transitioned your cat from having outdoor access to living exclusively indoors? We want to hear your story!
Many cat guardians choose to move their cats to an indoor-only lifestyle, yet there is surprisingly little research documenting this important transition. We're conducting a survey to better understand both the challenges and successes experienced by cats and their guardians during this change.
Your experiences will help us better understand:
- What motivates guardians to make this transition
- How cats adapt to their new indoor lifestyle
- Strategies that worked (or didn't work) during the transition
- The overall impact on both cats and their human families
For this study, we are interested in hearing from people with indoor only cats, as well as those people that keep their cat indoors while also providing enclosed areas (e.g., catios) or walking their cat on a leash.
Please read the following statements
· I understand the nature of this research
· I understand that my participation is voluntary (my choice)
· I understand that I may withdraw my participation at any time without giving a reason
· I understand that my identity will remain confidential and no material which could identify me will be used in any reports on this study
· I agree to allow my data to be used in future research projects providing anonymity and confidentiality are maintained
· I have had time to consider to whether to take part and know who to contact if I have any questions about the survey.
No identifying information of individual participants will be made available to anyone but the research team member doing the thematic analysis of the survey responses. The results will be released to the public as summarised info only. The raw data will be stored on Survey Monkey platform, and anonymised data will be stored on CANZ’ secure server (Microsoft Sharepoint which is encrypted and two-factor (2FA) authentication enabled).