Transitioning cats indoors: Pre-study screening of cat owner interest

Research Background

Thank you for your interest in our research! We are seeking participants for a study which aims to investigate the behaviour of cats when they first start living exclusively indoors, and how their guardians / owners feel about this change. We will also assess any factors that cats or their guardians / owners may struggle to adjust to. This research will help inform councils, vets, animal shelters, and cat guardians about how to move cats indoors, if that is being considered.

This initial screening survey lets us know that you are interested, and will allow us to see if you and your cat are a good fit for the research. We really appreciate your time in filling it out. It should take you 3-4 minutes.

All participants will receive a $100 Prezzi card as koha for their time participating in the study.

Your rights:

You do not have to participate in this research if you do not wish to.
You have a 2-week period within which you can withdraw any information collected from you. Simply email us.

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 that will be released to the public will be summarised. Raw data will be stored on Survey Monkey platform, and annonymised data will be stored on CANZ’ secure server (Microsoft Sharepoint which is encrypted and two-factor (2FA) authentication enabled).