Do I temporarily lose my feat?

[Atalius]

What happens if I have a 14 dex as a druid with improved grapple if I than wild shape into a form that gives me -4 dex. Do I lose my improved grapple feat? If so, is there any way to counter this?

[Dragonchess Player]

Question 1:

Core Rulebook wrote:

Some feats have prerequisites. Your character must have the indicated ability score, class feature, feat, skill, base attack bonus, or other quality designated in order to select or use that feat. A character can gain a feat at the same level at which he gains the prerequisite.

A character can't use a feat if he loses a prerequisite, but he does not lose the feat itself. If, at a later time, he regains the lost prerequisite, he immediately regains full use of the feat that prerequisite enables.

Question 2: Cat's grace.

[Atalius]

Thank you

[ShieldLawrence]

Whoa whoa whoa, you do not temporarily lose your feat for temporary penalties or ability damage.

Ability Score Damage, Penalty, and Drain wrote:

This damage does not actually reduce an ability, but it does apply a penalty to the skills and statistics that are based on that ability....Some spells and abilities cause you to take an ability penalty for a limited amount of time. While in effect, these penalties function just like ability damage...

Your ability score is not actually reduced, you just have a matching penalty on rolls and statistics. Ability drain would make you temporarily lose your feat.

[Quantum Steve]

And if you lost your feat due to ability drain, temporary bonuses like cat's grace wouldn't help for the same reason. Temporary bonus don't actually raise your ability score, it's just a matching bonus on rolls and statistics.