Everyday Cat Care
Learn the essential skills to raise a healthy, confident cat. Master litter box setups, decode feline body language, enrich daily routines, and spot hidden health issues early.
Like Duolingo, but for Everyday Cat Care. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
20 levels across 3 sections, about 40 minutes end to end, roughly 8 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Setting Up for Success at Home; Decoding Behavior and Play; and Daily Health, Handling, and Wellness. It starts from scratch.
Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android
Key ideas in Everyday Cat Care
- A single closed room (basecamp) keeps a cat from feeling overwhelmed by too much new space
- Free roaming the entire home right away leads to hiding in inaccessible spots and prolonged stress
- A basecamp room needs their litter box, food, water, and hiding spots all within close reach
- Dragging a cat out of a hiding spot removes their only sense of safety and teaches them you are a threat
- Cats need to choose when to approach you on their own terms to build trust
- Sitting quietly nearby and speaking softly allows a cat to assess safety without pressure
- Cats understand their environment and identify friend from foe primarily through smell
- Leaving a worn, unwashed t-shirt near their resting area lets the cat learn your scent in safety
- Washed linens strip away your personal scent markers and offer no familiarizing benefit
- Serving meals at set, consistent times reassures a cat that food is secure and not scarce
- Keeping meal and litter locations fixed prevents the cat from having to re-scout essentials
- Free-feeding or random schedule shifts leave anxious cats uncertain about their environment
- The golden rule is one litter box per cat, plus one extra (n + 1 rule)
- Boxes must be spread across different rooms rather than placed side-by-side so one cat cannot guard or block access to all of them
- Cats prefer uncovered, open boxes that offer clear 360-degree sightlines to check for threats
- A box must be at least 1.5 times the cat's length so they can dig and turn comfortably
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Everyday Cat Care the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What often happens if you let a new cat wander your whole house on day one?
Get it right to open this lesson and 19 more in the app.
Where Everyday Cat Care takes you
- 1
Setting Up for Success at Home
- Welcoming a Cat: The First 48 Hours
- The Litter Box System
- 2
Decoding Behavior and Play
- Reading Feline Body Language
- The Indoor Predatory Cycle: Play and Scratching
- 3
Daily Health, Handling, and Wellness
- Nutrition and Hydration Essentials
- Low-Stress Handling and Grooming
- Spotting Illness and Managing Emergencies
3 sections · 7 units · 20 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Tomo is in ChatGPT
Tomo is also a ChatGPT plugin: the same playable courses, built and played inside your chat.
Add Tomo to ChatGPT- What to ask
- “Make me a Tomo course on black holes.” “Turn this chat into a Tomo course.”
- What you get
- Quick questions with instant feedback, hearts and stars, ready to play in about a minute.
- Where it goes
- No sign-up to start. Connect your Tomo account and your streak carries on in the app.
You pick the voice
Everyday Cat Care is taught in the Explain Like I'm 5 style: no big words. promise.. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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Start Everyday Cat Care today.
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