Does My Cat Have Dementia Quiz

Cat owners who have noticed possible feline dementia symptoms or a new change in orientation, routines, interaction, or activity may use this questionnaire when deciding which observations deserve closer attention. The Does My Cat Have Dementia Quiz turns those observations into a structured profile across everyday behaviors. Its format helps distinguish an isolated departure from a recurring or urgent change without treating any single result as an explanation.

What This Assessment Explores

Items compare recent behavior with the cat’s familiar baseline. The cat dementia quiz format covers navigation, recognition, feeding, toileting, sleep, vocalization, grooming, social contact, restlessness, play, and exploration. These themes overlap with aging-related changes, yet similar changes may reflect pain, sensory loss, illness, stress, or another treatable condition.

The three result dimensions are:

• Orientation and Familiar Memory (0-15) reflects routes, familiar people or animals, essential locations, and learned routines; bands are No listed change (0), Change to monitor (1-2), and Veterinary review warranted (3-15).
• Sleep and Household Routines (0-15) reflects sleep, vocalizing, eating, grooming, and toileting; bands are No listed change reported (0), Change to monitor (1-2), and Veterinary review warranted (3-15).
• Social Behavior and Activity (0-15) reflects contact, withdrawal, restlessness, play, exploration, and activity; bands are No listed change (0), Change to monitor (1-2), and Veterinary review warranted (3-15).

Methodology and Evidence Base

The method uses structured owner self-report: each item offers four ordered choices, from no notable change to mild, repeated, or marked change. Answers compare recent behavior with the cat’s established pattern. Responses are grouped thematically and summarized within the displayed ranges; the questionnaire does not document how individual response choices are converted into the displayed totals.

The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with Bellows et al. (2016), while its behavioral content aligns with clinical signs discussed by MacQuiddy et al. (2022) and Sordo and Gunn-Moore (2021). The online questionnaire is not a standardized veterinary instrument, and its bands are unvalidated reflective summaries rather than diagnostic or severity cutoffs.

Read in context, the questionnaire may help structure observations relevant to possible cat cognitive dysfunction, but results should be read with timing, context, physical signs, and the cat’s baseline behavior. A single highest-concern response overrides the total: sudden disorientation, inability to urinate, collapse, breathing difficulty, seizures, or abrupt extreme change calls for prompt veterinary advice; persistent or progressive changes warrant assessment for cognitive and treatable medical causes.