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🔎 Cat Home Safety Audit

Most cat emergencies at home come from ordinary things: a bunch of lilies, a pill on the nightstand, a washer door left open. Walk room to room, answer honestly, and get a live safety score plus a fix list in the order that matters.

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Your safety score

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Start ticking — room by room

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How to audit

  • Walk, don't guess. Stand in each room and look at it from cat height — counters, open cabinets, the floor behind the washer.
  • For each item choose Safe ✓ (already handled), Fix needed (it's a live hazard), or N/A (doesn't exist in your home).
  • Severity is about the worst case, not the likelihood. Lilies and human medicines are Critical because a single exposure can be fatal; a dangling kettle cord is Low because the fix is easy and the risk is smaller.
  • Your score only counts items that apply to your home — N/A answers are excluded, so a small apartment isn't punished for having no balcony.
  • Answers are saved on this device, so you can audit a room today and come back tomorrow.

Room by room

25 items, five per room. Be honest — nobody sees this but you, and the fix list builds itself from your answers.

Priority fix list

How the scoring works

Each item carries a weight by severity — Critical 10, High 6, Medium 3, Low 1 — because fixing one Critical (medicines a cat can reach) protects your cat more than fixing five Lows. Your score is the share of applicable weight marked Safe: safe weight ÷ (safe + fix-needed weight), with N/A items left out entirely.

The fix list sorts the same way, Critical first, so if you only have ten minutes, spend them at the top of the list. Re-audit after you've made changes and watch the ring fill up — most homes jump a band just by moving medicines and dealing with plants.

One honest limit: a checklist can only cover the hazards it lists. Kittens, seniors and champion climbers each invent new ones — if something in your home makes you uneasy, treat it as a “Fix needed” whether or not it appears here.

This audit is awareness only — it helps you spot hazards; it isn't medical advice. If you think your cat has eaten or chewed something toxic, don't wait for symptoms — call your veterinarian or an animal poison-control line right away.

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