Terms & Conditions

PurrQuery is a free website offering cat care calculators, food-safety guides and written articles. There is no account to create, no subscription, and no charge for anything on the site.

The tools run in your browser and give an estimate based on the figures you enter. They are general aids, not measurements, and their output is only ever as good as the information given to them.

Every guide and tool on PurrQuery is written and maintained by the site's founder, who has kept cats at home for the past four to five years. Much of what the site covers began as something noticed at home: a change in appetite, an early sign of illness, or where a cat chooses to sleep.

Topics come from real questions: things noticed while living with cats, questions readers send in, and what cat owners actually search for. A topic earns a guide when there is a clear answer the evidence supports, or a real need to explain why the evidence is not settled.

Health, safety and nutrition information is researched from established sources, including:

• Veterinary schools and references, such as the Cornell Feline Health Center and the Merck Veterinary Manual.
• Veterinary professional bodies, such as the American Association of Feline Practitioners, the AVMA and WSAVA.
• Government agencies, such as the FDA and the CDC, for recalls, food safety and labeling rules.
• Poison control and welfare organizations, such as ASPCA Animal Poison Control.
• Peer-reviewed studies, usually linked through PubMed or the journal itself.

Before a claim is published, the source it relies on is opened and read to confirm it says what the guide says it does. Sources are linked in the text, next to the claim they support, and listed again at the end of each guide, so every important point can be checked.

Figures are given as the source gives them. When a number was measured in another species, usually dogs, the guide says so. Where the evidence is thin or disputed, the guide says that too, rather than smoothing it into a tidier answer.

Drafts may be prepared with the help of software, including AI writing tools. Nothing is published until its facts have been checked against the sources it links to, and the founder is responsible for every page.

Every calculator and tracker names the formula or guideline behind it, and its results are estimates to discuss with your vet.

Each guide shows when it was published and, if it has changed since, when it was last updated. The updated date moves only when the content substantially changes, such as new sources, corrected facts or a new section, never for a cosmetic edit.

If something on PurrQuery is wrong, please tell us through the contact page. Corrections go to the front of the queue, and a corrected guide shows its new updated date.

Every guide on PurrQuery is carefully researched from established veterinary sources, and every important claim links to the source behind it, so you never have to take our word for anything. That is what makes the information here dependable: it is accurate, current and open to checking.

For a cat that seems unwell, or may have eaten something harmful, your own vet remains the right next step. Decisions about your cat’s care are yours to make.

You may read, use and share PurrQuery for personal, non-commercial purposes. You may link to any page on the site freely.

You may not use the site in a way that breaks the law, interferes with it working for anyone else, or attempts to gain access to parts of it that are not public. Scraping the site at scale, republishing its content as your own, or using automated systems to overload it are all outside acceptable use.

You may not submit anything through our forms that is unlawful, abusive, deliberately misleading, or that you do not have the right to send.

The text, design, tools, code and branding on PurrQuery belong to us unless stated otherwise, and are protected by copyright and related rights.

You are welcome to quote short extracts with clear credit and a link back to the page you took them from. Reproducing whole guides, or presenting our material as your own, is not permitted without written permission.

If you contact us or subscribe to updates, you give us the details needed to respond to you or to send what you asked for. We use them for that and nothing else, and we do not sell or share them.

If you send a suggestion, a correction or feedback, you allow us to act on it and to incorporate it into the site without owing you payment or credit. Please do not send anything confidential through the contact form.

PurrQuery is free to use and is funded by affiliate links. PurrQuery is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Affiliate links are labeled where they appear. Buying through one costs you nothing extra, and the purchase itself is made with the retailer, under the retailer's own terms, not ours. Prices and availability are set by the retailer and can change at any time.

Advertising, such as Google AdSense, may be added in future. If it is, the Privacy Policy will say so first.

Commercial arrangements do not decide what our guides say. PurrQuery does not publish sponsored posts or paid placements. A product being advertised or linked does not amount to a recommendation of it, and we do not accept payment to change the substance of published guidance.

Some pages link to sites we do not run, such as veterinary sources and references. Those links are provided because they are useful, not as an endorsement of everything on them.

We have no control over other websites and are not responsible for their content, their accuracy or how they handle your data. Their terms and privacy policies apply once you leave PurrQuery.

We aim to keep PurrQuery available and working, but we do not guarantee it. The site may be unavailable during maintenance, because of a fault, or for reasons outside our control.

We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of the site, including any individual tool or guide, without notice. Nothing here is a promise that a particular feature will continue to exist.

PurrQuery is provided as it is, without warranties of any kind. We do not warrant that the content is complete, current or free of error, or that the site will be uninterrupted or secure.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for loss or damage arising from your use of the site or from reliance on anything published on it, including loss relating to the health of an animal.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

These terms, and any dispute arising from them or from your use of PurrQuery, are governed by the laws of the country in which the site is operated, and the courts of that country have exclusive jurisdiction.

If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.

If anything on this page is unclear, or you need to raise something about these terms, please use the contact page or write to us directly. We would rather answer a question than have you guess.