Cat sitting backed by a larger feline-care system.
Portland Cat Sitting is not a stand-alone gig marketplace. It is connected to Cats in the City’s grooming, boarding, transport, complex-care, rescue, and transition teams.
Behavioral, operational, and scientific perspectives shape the care model.
The team combines long-term feline-care experience with social-work, neuroscience, grooming, boarding, medication, behavior, and household-care knowledge.
Shawn Lioyryan
Co-founder · Licensed social worker · Certified TANDEM Cat® GroomerShawn’s work integrates family-systems thinking, trauma-informed care, feline behavior, somatic observation, clinical grooming, boarding, and the design of connected feline-care pathways.
Dr. Daniel Lioyryan
Co-founder · PhD neuroscientist · Feline-care systems leaderDan’s neuroscience background informs the organization’s attention to sensory processing, stress response, movement, behavior, environment, and the physiologic consequences of care design.
Liz
Lead cat sitter · Assistant groomerA Cats in the City team member since 2016, Liz brings long-term feline-care experience, detailed observation, and continuity across in-home care, grooming support, and related service settings.
Laura
Manager · Lead cat sitterLaura combines feline-care experience with scheduling, household coordination, client communication, service consistency, and the practical work required to keep in-home care dependable.
Good care depends on more than personal affection for cats.
The larger system provides standards, documentation, training, scheduling, insurance, backup planning, communication, and access to adjacent services.
Feline-specific development
Caregivers learn feline behavior, observation, household safety, medication routines, communication, and when a change needs escalation.
Organizational support
Scheduling, client profiles, communications, service records, backups, and management exist beyond the person entering the home.
Connected care
A sitter can identify a need for grooming, boarding, transport, veterinary care, rehabilitation, or another Cats in the City pathway.
The same sitter is preferred whenever possible, but the care system must survive schedule changes.
Professional service requires a current care profile that another qualified team member can use if illness, weather, emergency, or staffing changes affect the original assignment.
Start with the service area and household profile.
Final sitter assignment depends on location, dates, visit schedule, procedure needs, relationship continuity, and team capacity.