Personality differences among domestic cats (Felis catus) in Norway and how they affect home range size

Research on animal personalities has greatly increased in the last few decades, revealing it as an influential contribution to survival and space utilisation. Domestic cats pose a risk to wildlife through disease transmission and predation. The aim of this study was to 1) investigating and describing patterns in owner-reported personality of domestic cats living in Norway, 2) investigating whether these patterns are linked with intrinsic factors or extrinsic factors, and 3) researching whether owner-reported cat personality is related to behaviour, specifically home range size (95% and 50% kernel density estimates (KDE)). It also suggests non-invasive measures to reduce contact between cats and wildlife. Recruited through social media, participating cat owners completed a questionnaire about their cats and its personality and received GPS equipment to track the cat. Participants rated 16 personality traits on a 5-point Likert scale on whether the trait fit their cat or not. Through PCA analysis, two clusters of personality traits were identified, and the traits energetic and confident were selected from each cluster for logistic regression. As a result of model averaging (candidate models with ΔAIC