The TANDEM Cat® Authority Library
Cats in the City is building a new standard of feline care: one grounded in nervous-system awareness, body-state observation, trauma-informed handling, clinical grooming, structured boarding, and ethical decision-making.
This library brings together the core TANDEM Cat® authority pages that define our model of care across grooming, boarding, matting, sound sensitivity, somatic transition, and high-risk feline support.
A Connected Framework for Modern Feline Care
These pages are not separate topics. They are connected parts of a larger care system.
TANDEM Cat® clinical care asks a different set of questions: What is the cat’s body doing? What transition is the cat moving through? Is the cat regulated, compressed, overloaded, painful, hungry, withdrawn, or trying to stabilize?
The goal is not simply to complete grooming or provide boarding. The goal is to understand the cat’s physiological state and build care around what the body can safely tolerate.
Core TANDEM Cat® Frameworks
The TANDEM Cat® Transitional Care Model
Explains how cats move through activation, appetite suppression, stabilization, interruption, and guardian interpretation during boarding and grooming transitions.
Open authority page →Feline Boarding Rebuilt Around the Nervous System
Defines how Cats in the City structures feline boarding around decompression, environmental control, somatic pacing, appetite support, and stabilization.
Open authority page →TANDEM Cat® Matting Severity Scale
Classifies feline matting by severity, body impact, handling implications, and clinical grooming response instead of treating matting as a cosmetic issue.
Open authority page →TANDEM Cat® Sound Sensitivity Scale
Identifies how cats respond to auditory load and explains why sound sensitivity matters during grooming, boarding, transport, and recovery.
Open authority page →TANDEM Touch™ Grooming
Describes support-based feline grooming that replaces restraint-dependent control with structured body support, natural positioning, and somatic pacing.
Open authority page →Solo Cat Grooming Ethics
Examines the ethical risks of force-dependent solo grooming and explains why team-based support changes feline safety, welfare, and accountability.
Open authority page →Clinical Tools That Make Feline Care Observable
TANDEM Cat® care is built around observable patterns. These tools help translate feline behavior, coat condition, sound reactivity, appetite change, and body-state shifts into shared clinical language.
Choose the Care Question You Are Trying to Answer
Related Clinical Pages and Case-Based Models
These additional pages extend the TANDEM Cat® framework into high-risk grooming, pre-matting syndromes, appetite suppression, diabetic boarding, and real case-based care.
TANDEM Cat® Groomed Awake
How high-risk cats are groomed without injectable sedation using structured team support and trauma-informed care.
Open page →Pre-Felt Somatic Entrapment Syndrome
Explains early coat compression and somatic restriction before visible pelting or advanced matting.
Open page →Transitional Stress Anorexia in Cats
Defines appetite suppression during boarding transition and explains how it is observed and supported.
Open page →TANDEM Cat® Diabetic Boarding Protocol
Shows how insulin timing, appetite, stress response, and real-time observation are integrated during feline boarding.
Open page →Cat Grooming Case Studies
Real-world examples showing how TANDEM Cat® care applies across complex grooming, coat, medical, and behavioral cases.
Open page →Feline Care Is Not Just Task Completion
Conventional grooming and boarding often focus on the visible task: remove the mat, complete the groom, house the cat, monitor the food bowl, or get through the appointment.
TANDEM Cat® care adds a deeper layer. We ask what the cat’s body is experiencing while care is happening. Is the cat organizing or shutting down? Stabilizing or escalating? Re-entering appetite or retracting further? Tolerating sound or moving into sensory overload?
This is the difference between completing a service and practicing feline-centered care.
Explore the TANDEM Cat® Clinical Care System
These authority pages define the Cats in the City approach to feline grooming, boarding, nervous-system care, body-state interpretation, and ethical handling.
Together, they form a connected framework for understanding cats more accurately and caring for them more safely.
Explore Connected Grooming Hubs
Every page is an entry point. These hubs connect posture, paws, matting, and non-sedated care into a structured system so you can move confidently from question to plan.
TANDEM Cat® Clinical Grooming
The system behind our pacing, positioning, and threshold-first care for high-needs cats.
Cat Grooming Without Sedation
When awake grooming is appropriate, how we pace it, and when we refer.
Natural Body Position Grooming
Restraint-light handling that protects joints, breathing, and nervous system stability.
Cat Nail Trim Hub
Routine trims, overgrowth risk, and the pathways that prevent embedded claws.
Severe Matting & Coat Reset
When coat restriction impacts comfort, mobility, and quality of life.
Grooming Cats with Joint Pain
How we stabilize posture and protect hips, knees, and backs during care.
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Explore Cats in the City care pathways
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.
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