Grooming professionals
Build a complete clinical grooming pathway
Develop observation, support, coat and claw work, complex-case planning, documentation, and practical competency.
Professional feline education
See the cat clearly.
Support the body.
Change what care can accomplish.
Professional training in feline observation, TANDEM Touch™, clinical grooming, environment, documentation, and team implementation—developed through real-world practice at Cats in the City.
Built in real practiceOrganized by roleAssessed by application
Choose your role
Training built around the work you actually do
Begin with your setting, responsibilities, and desired outcome—not with a generic course catalog.
Veterinary teams
Create a shared feline handling language
Integrate environment, body support, transitions, threshold, team roles, and coat or claw awareness within veterinary scope.
Boarding teams
Recognize change earlier
Organize appetite, hydration, elimination, posture, movement, coat, hygiene, behavior, and escalation across temporary care.
Rescue and shelters
Improve intake and continuity
Connect grooming triage, body-state observation, handling decisions, documentation, transfer, foster, and veterinary coordination.
The learning ladder
Begin where you are. Continue as far as your role requires.
The rebuilt pathway separates introductory education, applied handling, assessed certification, live immersion, and organizational implementation.
Orientation
Free professional framework and readiness card.
Foundations
Shared language for observation, scope, environment, and decision.
Professional Handler
Applied TANDEM Touch™ support and practical verification.
Certification
Complete groomer curriculum, case log, examination, and practical assessment.
Implementation
Immersion, team workflow, facility standards, or enterprise licensing.
The method
Observe before you handle
A cat’s behavior, posture, movement, breathing, coat, skin, claws, hygiene, history, and tolerance all contain information. TANDEM teaches professionals to integrate those findings into the next decision.
01Observe
02Support
03Perform
04Reassess
Clinical field laboratory
Built at Cats in the City
TANDEM was developed inside a functioning feline-only care system where coat, body state, behavior, medical complexity, staffing, environment, time, and guardian communication have to work together.
Real cats and real case variation
Documented care and aftercare reporting
Methods challenged by daily operations
Public evidence and limitations
Flagship pathways
Professional education with a visible next step
Every pathway states who it serves, what is included, how learning is assessed, and what the credential or completion record means.
Applied handling
Professional Feline Handler
TANDEM Touch™, position, transition, threshold, environment, scenario work, and practical verification.
Flagship credential
Certified TANDEM Cat® Groomer
Full curriculum, case log, written examination, video practical, live review, and renewal.
Live field lab
Clinical Immersion
One- or two-day application-based observation and guided case discussion at Cats in the City.
Organizational
Team and Facility Implementation
Readiness, shared education, SOP adaptation, leadership alignment, evidence, and audit preparation.
Find the right starting point
The right pathway depends on your role.
Answer seven questions and receive a recommended education or implementation path.