About Feline Transitions

Built for the moment good intentions have to become reliable care.

A cat’s plan must be understandable to the Guardian who made it, the people who may carry it out, and the Team coordinating the transition.

Two cats whose relationship and care needs belong in one current plan

Our purpose

Reduce uncertainty and prevent avoidable disruption.

Feline Transitions brings cat records, trusted people, funding decisions, legal-document workflows, annual review, and response steps into one usable system. Path A and Path B remain distinct because planning support and accepting care responsibility are different services.

Program leadership

Feline-care practice, social-work insight, and systems thinking.

Shawn Lioyryan, MSW, CTCG

Co-founder · feline-care systems and trauma-informed practice

Shawn co-founded Cats in the City in 2006. His social-work background shapes the program’s relationship-centered, trauma-informed planning and transition approach.

Dan Lioy, PhD

Co-founder · neuroscience and operating systems

Dan’s scientific and systems-oriented work supports the operational, observational, and decision structures behind Cats in the City and TANDEM Cat programs.

The wider care team contributes hands-on experience in feline-only boarding, grooming, cat sitting, medication support, behavior observation, rescue, and rehabilitation.

Meet the full Cats in the City care team ↗

Build the plan that fits the real household

Start with your cats, your people, and the gaps you want covered.

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