There are eight deputies and their slots depend on the cats who won leader. There is one deputy slot for clowders that the leaders were, and three deputy slots for clowders that the leaders weren’t. Depending on the slots, clowders vote for one or three representatives. Deputies take issues chosen by the leaders, place them in categories, and come up with solutions for them. Those solutions are then passed down to the cats to vote on at gatherings.

The deputies place issues in 3 groups, dangerous issues, overall issues, and singular issues. Overall issues are issues that affect every cat. Singular issues are issues that only affect one clowder. Dangerous issues are issues that cause immediate deadly danger to cats’ lives, and they are sent to the deputies to come up with a solution as quickly as possible. If the issues still prevail in 24 hours, then the leaders choose solutions that the deputies came up with (including the one they agreed on before), and voting is sent down to the cats who can choose a new solution, the previous solution, or none. If the majority vote is none then the deputies must reconvene and come up with more solutions. If a dangerous issue only affects one clowder then it is still considered a dangerous issue.

As said in the code "At any time, cats can tell the deputies or leaders that they are unhappy with a decision made." This is interpreted as if 25% of the population from each clowder is unhappy with an overall issue decision then the deputies reconvene on it. Meanwhile, for singular issues, if 25% of the population from the affected clowder is unhappy with a singular clowder issue decision then the deputies reconvene on it.