Table 3.

Results of a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) for each factor associated with quality of life in cats (n = 1,590) except for: cat age (n = 1,584) and cat playfulness (n = 1,589). Based on online survey responses of cat guardians between June 22^nd and July 17^th, 2021

Factor	Cat Quality of Life Score	Cat Quality of Life Range	CI (95%)	P-value
Cat playfulness				< 0.001
Not very playful, only plays occasionally (478)	68.6	40-80	68.1-69.3
Neither playful nor not playful (281)	70.8	38-80	70.1-71.5
Playful, often wants to play (830)	73.3	41-80	72.9-73.7
Total ‘games’ played a				< 0.001
0-1 games (155)	67.8	38-80	66.6-69.1
2-4 games (856)	71.2	41-80	70.7-71.5
5-6 games (390)	72.7	40-80	72.2 -73.3
7+ games (189)	73.5	51-80	72.7-74.2
Housing b				< 0.001
Outdoor access (524)	70.3	41-80	69.7-70.8
Exclusively Indoors (1,066)	72.1	38-80	71.2-71.8
Cat age				< 0.001
1-2 years (354)	73.5	50-80	72.9-74.1
3-5 years (457)	72.3	56-80	71.8-72.8
6-9 years (377)	71.7	41-80	71.1-72.3
10+ years (396)	68.5	38-80	67.7-69.3
Cat health issues				< 0.001
Yes (415)	68.4	38-80	67.6-69.1
No (1175)	72.6	48-80	72.2-72.8

^aTotal ‘games’ played related to games the guardian regularly played with their cat and included: Fetch, playing with catnip toys, playing with noisy toys, playing with boxes, playing with hands, playing with digital devices, playing with wand toys, playing with laser pointers, playing with food, playing with motorised toys, chasing each other and training.

^bHousing: Outdoor was defined as regular unsupervised access to the outdoors without a harness, lead and not within a fully enclosed cat enclosure. Indoor/Outdoor was defined as mostly indoor with some access to the outdoors and exclusively indoors was defined as a cat with no access to the outdoors except on a harness or within a fully enclosed cat enclosure.