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Boarding for Cats with Special Needs

When you have a cat with special needs, you may find it challenging to find the proper care for your pet.
 

This may make going on vacation or spending long periods away from your cat seemingly impossible, but Whiskers is able to make special accommodations by offering our TLC Package to ensure they get the right amount of care and personal attention.

TLC Special Needs Program

 

We understand that leaving a cat with advanced age or chronic health challenges can be an emotional experience. Our mission is to make travel possible again by providing a level of expertise and compassion that matches your own. When your cat stays with us, they aren't just boarded—they are meticulously cared for, fiercely loved, and protected. We look forward to partnering with you to ensure your cat’s stay is safe, comfortable, and full of Tender Loving Care.

A Safe, Loving Environment for Unique Challenges

 

At Whiskers, we ensure every cat enjoys a comfortable, deeply restorative, and stress-free stay. For a specialized care program fee of $10 per day, we provide highly attentive, expert care for guests navigating unique health and life stages:
 

  • Cherished Life Stages: Playful kittens under 4 months of age who require high-frequency socialization, as well as senior feline guests requiring dedicated geriatric comfort care.
     

  • Active Health Challenges: Specialized accommodations and routine medical support for guests managing Asthma, Seizures, Cancer, IBD, or careful post-surgical healing and recovery.
     

  • Sensory & Mobility Needs: Tailored environment layouts to support blind or deaf cats, alongside specialized orthopedic comforts for felines with arthritis or physical mobility limitations.
     

  • Dietary & Digestive Care: Comprehensive meal monitoring and environmental care for underweight cats, strict prescription or specialized diets, and chronic conditions like frequent diarrhea or incontinence.

TLC Guest Preparation: Setting Us Up for Success


To ensure a seamless transition and help our team provide the absolute highest standard of care, we ask that you pack the following essentials for your kitty's drop-off:
 

  • Nutrition & Comforts: A generous supply of their regular diet, preferred treats, and any special "lovies" or favorite toys.
     

  • Familiar Scents: Unwashed items from home—such as a favorite bed, a blanket, or an old t-shirt—to provide comfort and drastically reduce boarding stress.
     

  • The "Insider Info": A detailed rundown of their daily routine, specific likes/dislikes, behavioral quirks, and any recent health changes.
     

  • Medical Essentials: All current medications in their original prescription bottles (including inhalers and supplements) along with up-to-date medical records.
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Accessibility & Comfort

Tailored room setups featuring carpeted low-impact stairs for effortless climbing, orthopedic cushioned bedding to soothe tender joints, and specialized raised or slow-feeders to assist with optimal digestion.

Personalized Attention

Dedicated daily brushing sessions, extended comforting lap time, and meticulous, proactive charting of daily food intake, hydration levels, and bathroom habits.

Peace of Mind

Keeping you connected across the miles with beautiful weekly photo updates and proactive phone or email check-ins whenever you need them.

Program Services & Care Structures

  

  • Daily TLC Premium Care Program --- $10.00 / Day
    Our comprehensive care tier added to standard suite rates. This covers specialized medical logging, extra check-ins, daily brushing, close monitoring of food and water intake, noting bathroom habits, enhanced physical wellness monitoring, low impact stairs, soft bedding, raised or slow feeders, and customized frequent feeding (up to 6 daily meal services).
     

  • Hygiene & Care Pad Replenishment --- 50¢ per pad
    For felines requiring continuous fresh pad placement, premium replacement pads are provided and refreshed at a baseline rate of 50¢ per pad, fully bundled into your daily program package.
     

  • Extended Suite Maintenance --- $20.00 / Occurrence
    While all guests enjoy complimentary standard daily housekeeping, this additional fee applies each time a guest requires extensive, unscheduled room restoration. This applies primarily to incontinent cats or guests who navigate outside their litter boxes, covering deep sanitation of flooring, shelves, bedding, and cat trees.
     

  • Medication Administration — $3.00 per administration
    For cats requiring direct, hands-on medication handling, our trained staff provides gentle and professional administration for pills, liquids, transdermal gels, and inhalers.

    Note: If your cat's medications or health supplements can be fully mixed directly into their wet or dry food and consumed during scheduled meals, this service is provided entirely at no additional charge.

Comprehensive Emergency Planning

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For your complete peace of mind, our required intake paperwork establishes clear safeguards before your trip begins, ensuring we are perfectly aligned on:

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  1. Determining Exactly When to Vet: Precise baseline medical triggers for when our trained team will transition your cat from on-site monitoring to a professional veterinary environment.
     

  2. Unreachable Emergency Desires: Explicit pre-authorization of your chosen spending caps and medical parameters if you cannot be reached during a crisis.
     

  3. End-of-Life Dignity Wishes: Transparent pre-arrangements with Paws in Paradise (Killeen, TX), ensuring immediate, respectful handling and transport if a fragile or senior guest unexpectedly passes in our care.
     

Note: All clients enrolling in our TLC Program will be prompted to sign our formal TLC Special Needs Intake & Comprehensive Emergency Agreement form prior to or at the time of check-in.

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