The binary response variable, "UseAvail" (1 = used, 0 = available), indicates if a cat used (GPS point) the land cover type or if it was available (randomly generated within the set boundaries at a ratio of 10:1). Predictor variables included each land cover type and whether it was used or not (1 = within the habitat, 0 = outside the habitat). Habitat types were obtained from the Southern Ontario Land Resource Information System (SOLRIS) v.3 (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, 2019) and grouped as “impervious” (residential, industrial, commercial, and civic areas), “road” (highways and all other roads), “greenspaces” (recreational parks and various types of natural land cover), “agricultural” (tilled land and cultivated tree plantations), "water" (depth > 2 m), and “undifferentiated” (not mapped by the previous classes).

Domestic cats (<i>Felis catus</i>) 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.