Cats in the City | Care systems library
The Feline Care Systems Library
What the public sees is a grooming appointment. What the care system must hold is medical context, behavior, medication, handling, environment, staffing, memory, and judgment. These nine connected papers examine the work behind the visible service.
Three routes through the collection
Follow the argument that matters to you.
Each path moves from a broad question to the records and operating implications beneath it. Read one paper or follow a complete three-paper sequence.
Trust and care model
What is this system actually built to do?
Start with the claims, examine the observed case mix, then look closely at a population where complexity frequently stacks.
Records and meaning
What does the team know that the service record usually misses?
Open the hidden registries, follow their evolution into structured data, and see why narrative remains essential.
Measurement and learning
How does hidden work become operating knowledge?
Move from a proposed complexity measure to durable organizational memory and a learning loop that changes future care.
The complete library
Nine papers. One operating argument.
Together, the collection moves from transparency and case mix to documentation, measurement, organizational memory, and continuous learning.
Guide | Trust and fit
The Skeptic's Guide to Cats in the City
A direct account of the care model, its evidence, its limits, its handling philosophy, and the questions guardians should ask.
Read the guidePractice analysis | Case mix
The Evolution of Clinical Complexity in a High-Volume Feline Grooming Practice
What accumulated care flags reveal about the medical awareness, behavioral planning, and operational adaptation inside feline grooming.
Read the analysisPractice paper | Geriatric care
The Operational Burden of Geriatric Feline Care
Why senior cats often require different preparation, positioning, pacing, staffing, documentation, and recovery support.
Read the paperWhite paper | Measurement
Measuring Operational Complexity in Companion Animal Grooming
A proposed index for measuring medical flags, medication, behavior, handling, environment, and staffing adaptations.
Explore the proposed indexData paper | Hidden records
Clinical Intelligence Hidden Inside Grooming Records
Five overlapping registries of risk, behavior, medical context, workflow, and care adaptation operating inside routine records.
Open the data paperInformatics paper | Data evolution
From Sticky Notes to Structured Medicine
How handwritten observations evolved into icons, run cards, structured fields, a knowledge base, and research-ready data.
Follow the evolutionOperational care and data | Context
Why Narrative Still Matters
Why structured fields provide visibility while narrative preserves the individualized context required to act on them.
Read about the dual-layer modelImplementation paper | Continuity
Organizational Memory in Companion Animal Care
A seven-layer architecture for preserving knowledge across repeat visits, staff members, locations, training, and research.
Study the memory systemImplementation science | Learning
Building a Learning Health System in Companion Animal Care
How routine observations can become usable knowledge, return to the point of care, and be evaluated again.
Enter the learning loopThe operating loop
How the collection fits together
The papers describe one continuous process: notice what changes care, preserve its meaning, make it usable, measure the resulting work, and return what is learned to the next appointment.
Notice medical, behavioral, medication, handling, and environmental context.
Keep fast signals connected to narrative explanation and source context.
Make observations visible, retrievable, comparable, and available before care.
Examine case mix, workload, adaptations, and outcomes the service name cannot show.
Use review to improve scheduling, staffing, training, protocols, and future care.
A useful place to begin
Start where your skepticism is highest.
Read the broad guide for the complete care model, or begin with the historical registry analysis if you want to see the operational evidence first.
Evidence note: the registry figures describe visible records in the historical Cats in the City custom-icon report. They do not establish disease prevalence, diagnosis, treatment effects, or clinical outcomes. Each paper states its own scope and limitations.
Explore the TANDEM Touch™ Knowledge Hub
These pages are designed to work together: defining solo grooming, explaining restraint architecture, stating the ethical position, and showing why this matters for your cat.
Why We Do Not Perform Solo Cat Grooming
Read TANDEM Cat®’s ethical position on solo grooming, structural harm, and why we will not recreate known risk to validate what is already observable.
Open ethics statementWhat Is Solo Cat Grooming?
Learn what solo cat grooming means, how one-person handling works, and why this model breaks down for high-risk feline care.
Open definition pageWhat Is Restraint Architecture?
Understand how pressure distribution, support structure, equipment, and TANDEM Touch™ choreography determine feline safety during grooming.
Open concept pageWhy This Matters for Your Cat
See how grooming structure shapes stress, shutdown, aggression, matting progression, and your cat’s overall experience of care.
Open guardian pageExplore 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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Follow the right pathway for your cat
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.
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.
Ingrown Cat Claws Hub
Embedded claws, disc claws, ulcer risk, and senior claw maintenance guidance.
Severe Matting & Coat Reset
When coat restriction impacts comfort, mobility, and quality of life.
Key Contributors to Matting
Arthritis, stress, mobility limits, and how matting escalates over time.
Grooming Cats with Joint Pain
How we stabilize posture and protect hips, knees, and backs during care.