Cats in the City offers calm, feline-only cat boarding in Portland with private suites, daily wellness checks, daily updates, and care designed around the nervous system — not volume.
Our Mt Tabor location supports cats who need quiet structure, predictable routines, thoughtful enrichment, and skilled feline-only care while their families are away.
Many cats do best when boarding is structured around calm consistency. At Cats in the City Mt Tabor, care is built around private space, routine, daily observation, and gentle interaction.
The goal is not only to provide a room. The goal is to support appetite, hydration, litter box patterns, posture, behavior, and emotional settling while the cat moves through a temporary change in environment.
Your cat stays in a private suite designed for rest, routine, and reduced environmental stress.
Appetite, water intake, litter box patterns, grooming, posture, energy, and behavior shifts are observed every day.
Daily communication helps you stay connected while allowing your cat to settle into their boarding rhythm.
Gentle interaction, exploration, and play are woven into care routines without overwhelming sensitive cats.
Seniors, medically complex cats, and nervous cats may benefit from closer observation, medication support, and slower handling.
Cats in the City – Mt Tabor is located at 415 NE 80th Ave, Portland, OR 97213.
This page is connected to the Mt Tabor Google business profile and location map for families searching for Portland cat boarding near Mt Tabor.
Some cats need more than a clean room and a feeding schedule. They may need extra time to settle, medication support, appetite monitoring, slower pacing, or care that accounts for stress, age, medical history, and behavioral sensitivity.
Extra observation can help identify appetite, mobility, hydration, or litter box changes during boarding.
Medication routines are handled with consistency, documentation, and attention to each cat’s tolerance.
Private space, predictable routines, and gentle handling help reduce unnecessary activation.
Families may receive extra communication when a cat’s care plan benefits from closer shared tracking.
Mt Tabor boarding is part of a larger Cats in the City care system that includes feline boarding, TANDEM Cat® grooming, transitional care, nervous-system-based boarding, and medical or special needs support.
Explains how cats move through activation, appetite suppression, stabilization, interruption, and guardian interpretation during boarding and grooming transitions.
Open page →Explore the broader Cats in the City boarding model across locations, rooms, routines, and care pathways.
Open page →Defines boarding around decompression, environmental control, somatic pacing, appetite support, and stabilization.
Open page →Supportive boarding for cats with medical, behavioral, age-related, or special care needs.
Open page →Clinical feline grooming built around stabilization, support, body-state awareness, and skilled cat handling.
Open page →Private suites, feline-only care, daily wellness checks, and daily updates help your cat settle while you travel.
Our Tabor location is Portland cat boarding designed for cats who want engagement without chaos: tall vertical environments for climbers, window-heavy suites for observers, studio bedrooms for calm loungers, and catio-linked rooms for controlled outdoor stimulation.
Every stay is feline-only and based on private territory. Cats are never mixed with other households. Shared spaces are elective enrichment only, and bonded family cats can board together in our larger rooms.
Some cats want height. Some want sunshine. Some want a quiet floor lounge and a private reset. Our Tabor boarding rooms are built around that reality: private, choice-based space that supports calm instead of forced interaction.
The right room fit depends on how your cat regulates — through climbing, watching, hiding, lounging, scenting fresh air, staying with bonded family members, or keeping routines quiet and predictable.
Studio bedrooms are full-size private rooms built for cats who prefer grounded routines: open floor lounging, quiet observation, and active movement when desired. These suites are especially supportive for cats who decompress best in a cozy space — clean territory, predictable rest, and space to settle.
Built for climbers and explorers: vertical walkways, stair transitions, wall-mounted shelves, and multi-level engagement. This room supports safe movement and confidence-building — structured, supervised, and always feline-only.
A room for cats who like to stay connected to the environment. With a wall of windows, open floor space, and vertical options, it is ideal for confident observers — cats who prefer to watch everything rather than disappear.
Comfort-forward and warm: bright windows, a cozy cabin-style bed, climbing tower, and a hiding cubby for private reset. Designed for cats who want both openness and retreat — lounge when they feel social, tuck away when they do not.
A bonded-family suite for 1–6 cats from the same household, designed so cats can distribute naturally without competing for one best spot. Expect windows, towers, hiding zones, and a wall gym that supports climbing, observation, and decompression.
Steady sensory input without noise. The Aquarium Room offers built-in fish viewing — quiet cat TV — plus access to a private enclosed catio. Many cats find this kind of continuous, gentle stimulation regulating.
Dedicated to the Aquarium Room — secure, enclosed, and designed for safe sunlight, fresh air, and neighborhood sound enrichment without exposure to risk. It is outdoor access that stays within the cat’s private territory.
Our Portland cat boarding model includes both private room-linked catios and rotation-based common catios. Outdoor access is always optional. No cat is forced. Some cats love fresh air and bird-watching. Others prefer indoor stability. Both are respected.
Submit your request and we will confirm room fit, dates, care needs, and any bonded family requirements.
Cats in the City • Boarding Care System
Our rooms are only one part of the boarding system. These pages explain how Cats in the City designs feline boarding around regulation, movement, choice, medical awareness, and the nervous system.
The source page for the boarding cluster, connecting the care model, visual proof pages, and service pathways.
Open page →The main service page for Cats in the City feline-only boarding, care structure, locations, and request process.
Open page →How Cats in the City changes the care system instead of asking cats to tolerate spaces not built for them.
Open page →Curiosity, presence, and personality can remain visible during boarding when the environment supports the cat.
Open page →When safety creates surplus, cats play, stretch, reach, investigate, and engage.
Open page →How cats choose positions, claim resting places, use vertical space, and move without hesitation.
Open page →Ready to plan your cat’s stay? Start with the boarding request form so our team can review room fit, dates, routines, and any medical or special care needs.
Request BoardingMany cats with stable needs do well at Mt Tabor. Higher-acuity cases, including diabetic boarding, are supported at Sellwood.
Unsure where your cat belongs? Start with the Medical & Special Needs Hub →
All our rooms are big. The real question is: Do you want big, bigger or biggest? Each facility averages 4,000 square feet with about 30 rooms.
Our cat hotels are clean and comfortable. Every room has hospital-grade flooring and is ventilated with clean fresh air, central heating, and cooling.
Our boarding facilities are clean and designed for cats. Our expert team has extensive training in cat behavior and handling.
Our Human-to-Cat Ratio is one great team member for every 7-10 rooms. We’re also qualified to care for cats with medical needs, and we have animal technicians and a behaviorist on staff.
We use our collective professional experience during the grooming process to adapt and modify grooming procedures prioritizing safety, temperament, and ability of the individual cat before us.
We’re not a cat warehouse. Cats are given the opportunity to be in the playrooms, community rooms, and catios, as well as lots of personalized loving care and attention.
Cats in the City provides feline-only care through an interconnected family of services: boarding, grooming, transitional care, medical and special needs support, and location-specific care pathways throughout Portland and Beaverton.
Our work centers on cats who do best with calm, predictable, cat-specific care — whether they are confident explorers, sensitive seniors, medically complex companions, nervous boarders, newly adopted rescues, or cats in a major life transition.
Some cats need more than a basic boarding or grooming appointment. They may need extra time to settle, medication support, gentle handling, predictable routines, or care that accounts for stress, age, medical history, coat condition, and behavioral sensitivity.
The Cats in the City family of pages helps families find the right pathway — from cat boarding and TANDEM Cat® grooming to transitional care, nervous-system-based boarding, medical boarding, and location-specific services.
Learn how we support cats through decompression, relocation, adoption, boarding transitions, appetite changes, and nervous-system regulation.
Open page →Explore our feline-only boarding model built around comfort, observation, routine, enrichment, and cat-specific care.
Open page →Read how boarding can be structured around decompression, environmental control, somatic pacing, appetite support, and stabilization.
Open page →Supportive boarding for cats with medical, behavioral, age-related, diabetic, medication, or special care needs.
Open page →Clinical feline grooming built around stabilization, support, body-state awareness, skilled handling, and trauma-informed care.
Open page →Cats in the City also maintains location-specific grooming pathways for families looking for care at a particular site.
Whether your cat needs boarding, grooming, transition support, medical boarding, or a location-specific care pathway, the Cats in the City care network is designed to help you start in the right place.
Use the links below to explore TANDEM Cat® authority pages, skin and coat care, transitional care, boarding, nervous-system-based boarding, medical and special needs boarding, TANDEM Cat® grooming, and location-specific cat grooming pages.
Cats in the City Home
TANDEM Cat® Authority Library
Cat Skin & Coat Care
TANDEM Cat® Transitional Care Model
New Level of Cat Care & Boarding
Boarding Built for the Nervous System
Medical & Special Needs Boarding
TANDEM Cat® Grooming
Powell Location
Beaverton Location
At Cats in the City, your cherished feline will find a dedicated haven, designed exclusively for their contentment and care. Our expansive facilities include personalized ‘apartments’, offering many options to suit your cat’s preference for space and solitude.
Health is our top priority; we meticulously record all consumption and elimination, ensuring real-time responses to your cat’s needs. Our cat boarding services also provide:
Our facilities prioritize cleanliness and comfort with hospital-grade flooring and optimal ventilation. And with an attentive staff-to-cat ratio, every feline receives the personalized attention they deserve.
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Cats in the City Serves all of the Metro Portland Area, with 2 locations dedicated specifically to Cat Boarding.
Preview our locations, view the specialized Suites in each location, and learn more about how Cats in the City is Better Care for Cats!
We measure our love of cats by how much we are loved by them.
Have questions or need to arrange care for your feline friend? We’re here to help! Reach out to us for any inquiries or to schedule our services.
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Explore our Cat Grooming Guide & Coat Care Resource for a structured overview of matting, deshedding, claw care, senior grooming, medical-sensitive care, and when cats need more than routine maintenance.
