Stray By The Bay Cat Cafe

04/07/2025

An amazing community resource to have! Make sure to stop by the CHS admissions and assessment center to engrave your own free tag for your pets!

🚨 NEW! 🚨 We’re thrilled to introduce our brand new pet tag engraving machine! FREE personalized pet ID tags are now available at our Admissions & Assessment Center. It’s quick and easy to create a free tag, and there are a variety of colors and styles to choose from so you can perfectly match your pet’s personality to their new swag.

Unfortunately, the number of lost dogs being reclaimed has steadily declined over the last five years. In 2019, 68.1% were reclaimed, whereas in 2024 only 53.7% were reclaimed. A staggering 14% decrease in reclaims.

We want to help! Adding an identification tag can feel like a small step, but it makes a big difference. Put a tag on ‘em – help us take the lost out of lost and found!

04/06/2025

Less than an hour left!

https://stores.inksoft.com/straybythebay/shop/home

04/05/2025

Make sure you don’t sleep on snagging you Stray By The Bay fundraiser shirts like Rachel here! There’s less than 12 hours to buy a shirt and help your local cat cafe open their physical location! The store closes at 10pm TONIGHT April 5th, so make sure to get your orders in ASAP!

04/03/2025

Less than 3 days left to get these cool shirts AND support the opening of Lincoln’s first cat cafe! We can’t do it without your support!

04/02/2025

Free vaccine clinic this month!

📢 Free Vaccine Clinic for Pets! 🐶🐱

Join NAMC on April 13th from 5-7 PM at Nebraska Animal Medical Center (5720 Old Cheney Rd, Lincoln, NE) for a FREE core vaccine clinic for cats and dogs.

✔️ Cats: 1-Year Rabies & FVRCP (Must be in a carrier)
✔️ Dogs: 1-Year Rabies & DAPLP (Must be on a leash)

Because every pet deserves love and protection! 💙🐾

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04/01/2025

Awful news for the community. It’s clear that Chris had an amazing passion for rescue cats and we’re very sad to learn of his passing. Keeping his family and all of the cats still fighting after this tragedy in our thoughts ❤️

03/31/2025

Only FIVE days left to support Stray By The Bay through our fundraiser. There’s five styles to pick from including a tee in the very perfectly named color: BAY! Everything we earn through this fundraiser goes straight into our cat cafe fund to open up our physical location.

Quite simply:
Physical location 🟰 LOTS of cats saved 🐱❤️💊🏠
No physical location 🟰 very small group of cats saved 😿

With that being said, BUY A SHIRT!

03/29/2025

Why is Phoebe is yelling? She wants you to know that you only have 1 day left to enter our magic mushroom cat tree raffle and only 7 days left to pre-order your shirts through our fundraiser!

🍄 Entries are $5 each! Send your entries through our Venmo or through our donation option on our website! Make sure to note that it’s for the raffle and leave a way for us to contact you. Winner will be picked at noon tomorrow, March 30th!

👕There’s 5 shirt styles to choose from with our original logo in either black or white depending on the shirts color! Tees are $24, long sleeves $30, and sweatshirts $35! The shop closes on April 5th at 10pm, so make sure your orders are in before then!

https://stores.inksoft.com/straybythebay/shop/home

🐱Everything goes towards obtaining our physical location and saving cats in Lincoln! We have our eyes on some potential locations, but need your help to reach our goals!

03/24/2025

Don’t forget, Stray By The Bay has two limited time fundraising opportunities going on right now!

1️⃣ Our shirt fundraiser with ! These are available in 5 different styles with our original logo in either black or white depending on the shirts color. The short and long sleeves are available in S-3XL while our crewneck is available in S-4XL! Remember that these are a pre-order and the shirts will be shipped directly to you about 2-3 weeks after our shop closes on April 5th at 10pm.

2️⃣ Magic Mushroom Cat Tree! Just like all of our other cat tree raffles, it’s $5 per entry with unlimited entries allowed. The drawing will take place on March 30th at noon over here on instagram so make sure to get your entries in ASAP! You don’t want to miss out on this cute and magical tree for your fur babies!

03/22/2025

Can’t make it to the expo this weekend to enter our raffle? Don’t worry, you can enter from the comforts of your own couch! Here’s what you need to know:

🍄$5 per entry, enter as many times as you’d like

🍄Winner will be drawn Sunday March 30th @ 12pm

🍄Must live in and/or willing to travel to Lincoln to pick up prize

🍄Submit your entries through Venmo and leave a way for us to contact you

Good luck and thank you very MUSH!

03/22/2025

Day one at the I Love My Dog Expo! Come check us out, enter our cat tree raffle, and pre-order a shirt through our fundraiser! Here until 5pm today and then we’ll be back all day tomorrow!

03/21/2025

Don’t forget! Stray By The Bay will be attending I Love My Dog Expo again this weekend! We’ll have the usual stickers, coffee mugs, bagged coffee from , the ability to pre-order shirts from our fundraiser with , and another fun cat tree raffle. We hope to see y’all there! ☕️🍄

03/20/2025

Want a cat cafe here in Lincoln?

Here's how you can help make that happen!

We've teamed up with Screen Ink. in order to raise the necessary funds that go into opening up a cat cafe here in town. There's five new shirt designs and colors with our original Stray By The Bay logo! Two Comfort Color tees, two Comfort Color long sleeves, and a super comfy Gildan crew neck in some neutral and earth-toned colors!

A portion of all apparel sales goes straight towards the cafe fund. This will help cover any filings, payments, spot procurement, and possible renovations fees needed to get this cafe open and more local cats saved!

The shop is open now and closes on April 5th at 10pm, so act fast!

03/12/2025

We were on a break, but now we’re back! We’re fostering these Friends for while they work on growing up! Don’t let her face fool you, this momma is one of the sweetest girls around. Princess Consuela Banana Hammock or Mama Nana (or shelter name Halsey) came all the way up from Texas with her kittens Monica, Phoebe, Rachel, Joey, and Ross. Unfortunately neonate kittens and most shelter don’t mix very well, but thankfully BHS was there at the right time and now they’re in Nebraska with the chance to grow up!

03/12/2025

Don't wait! Spay and neuter the first community cat you start feeding.

A female cat can become a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother in one year! 😦

Use these links to find low-cost clinics in your area: https://www.animalleague.org/get-involved/spay-usa/

https://www.unitedspayalliance.org/state-local/program-locator-map/

03/12/2025

Handsome Alert! These boys are looking for their forever homes and it’s inconceivable that they haven’t been adopted yet!!