One system. Many specialized front doors.
Portland Cat Care maps the Cats in the City family so visitors can enter through the need they recognize while preserving a visible path to adjacent services, transition programs, and professional resources.
Services that support daily life with cats.
These public entry points address coat care, lodging, home routines, transportation, medication, observation, and practical continuity.
Cats in the City
The feline-only care network operating four Portland-area locations and connecting grooming, boarding, sitting, transport, rescue, and complex care.
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Cat Grooming Portland
Routine grooming, advanced matting, coat recovery, claws, hygiene, seniors, medically complex cats, and TANDEM Cat® handling.
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Portland Cat Boarding
Private feline suites, enrichment, medication support, diabetic care, appetite observation, extended stays, and connected services.
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Portland Cat Sitting
Feeding, medication, litter care, home integrity, senior support, behavior observation, and routine preservation.
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Go Pet Go
Appointment transport, airport logistics, household moves, records, carriers, temporary boarding, and destination handoff.
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Complex Feline Care
Senior, diabetic, medication-dependent, mobility-limited, sensory-sensitive, and medically complex care across services.
Explore complex care →Stabilization before surrender, and structure after disruption.
These programs respond when housing, health, behavior, caregiver capacity, aging, or family circumstances place the human-cat system under pressure.
Cats in the City Rescue
Rescue, foster, medical and behavioral support, grooming, boarding, adoption, and outcome-focused placement.
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FELINE TRANSITIONS®
Clarifies the cat, household, risks, timeline, resources, and possible pathways before the destination is chosen.
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Structured Rehab
Assessment and rebuilding of feeding, medication, litter, behavior, grooming, mobility, and environmental systems.
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Structured Rehoming
Whole-cat assessment, honest disclosure, environmental matching, preparation, handoff, and post-placement support.
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Lifetime Care Program
Authority, contacts, funding, records, immediate safe care, and long-term planning before illness, incapacity, or death.
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Support the Rescue
Fund veterinary care, grooming, boarding, transport, medication, rehabilitation, supplies, and structured placement.
Support the rescue →TANDEM Cat® education, credentials, and provider identity.
The professional ecosystem explains the handling method behind the care and the difference between individual skill, facility readiness, certification, and continuing development.
TANDEM Cat®
Two-person support, movement-responsive handling, awake grooming, somatic observation, and decision-based care limits.
Understand the method →
TANDEM Cat Groomers
Professional training, certification, provider identity, case experience, supervision, and the judgment required for feline variability.
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Certified TANDEM Cat® Grooming Facility
Staffing, rooms, equipment, sanitation, documentation, workflow, escalation, and complex-cat readiness.
Explore the facility standard →Local access points support the larger network.
Portland Cat Care also routes visitors to Cats in the City locations, feline veterinarians, emergency hospitals, and the conversational Jonah assistant.
Cats in the City locations
Sellwood, NE Tabor, SE Powell, and Beaverton operate as connected feline-care sites.
Compare locations →Veterinary directory
Feline-only primary care, cat-only mobile care, true 24-hour emergency hospitals, and urgent clinics.
Open veterinary resources →Jonah · Ask Cat
Describe the situation in ordinary language when you do not know which part of the network fits.
Ask Jonah →The right next step can change as new information appears.
Connected care means the team can recognize when the original request no longer describes the whole problem and establish a more appropriate path forward.
Enter anywhere
Begin with grooming, boarding, sitting, transport, rescue, or a transition question.
Observe the whole cat
Behavior, coat, mobility, feeding, medication, hygiene, environment, and guardian capacity are considered together.
Adapt the plan
Care is modified, deferred, staged, or connected to another service or professional resource.
Preserve continuity
The next team receives context rather than forcing the cat and family to begin again without shared history.
Describe the problem before choosing the service.
Start with the visible condition and context. Portland Cat Care can route from what is happening instead of requiring you to understand the organization first.