Stray By The Bay Cat Cafe

11/15/2024

Make sure to get those entries in by tomorrow Saturday (11/16) at midnight! We will be drawing the winner Sunday (11/17) afternoon! All proceeds goes towards the vet care of our current 8 rescue kittens!☁️✨💜🐱

11/11/2024

Good morning everyone! We still have an almost a week left for our Moonlight Cat Tree and matching bowl giveaway☁️⭐️💜

Here’s what you need to know!
⭐️$5 per entry
☁️No cap on number of entries
⭐️Winner will be announced on Sunday (11/17) afternoon/evening through a instagram live video
☁️Must be in or willing to meet in Lincoln to claim your prize
⭐️If you’re donating through Venmo, please leave a note that it’s for the raffle and way to contact you! If you’d like to pay by card, feel free to use the donation link on our website’s shop section and then send us a message!

Good luck to everyone who enters and thank you for your support! 💜🐱

11/10/2024

There’s only 4 hours left to see us at the second annual Handmade Holiday Kickoff at the Gateway Mall! We have an amazing cat tree raffle happening, freshly air roaster coffee, and of course our usual goodies! Can’t wait to see you guys 💕🎁🐱

11/10/2024

🍞🥯CARB KITTENS🍩🍞

We told you there were 8️⃣ new kittens brought in last week and here they are! This group consists of what we think to be 3 litters, 2 of which came from the same place, and then a singleton that will be introduced to the group once we get the go ahead that everyone is healthy!

🍞💕Crumpet- loves a good blanket to snuggle into, unsure about people, BIG FAN of salmon wet food, actual escape artist
🍞💙Rye- BIG BOI # 1, thinks everything is a game, will playfully paw at you the entire time you try to pick him up
🍞💙Pumpernickel- BIG BOI # 2, thinks he’s the biggest baddest boy that’s ever existed… until you pick him up… then he’s the biggest baby that’s ever existed…
🍞💙Brioche- orange boy energy, big baby, will cry about anything and everything
🥯💙Bagel- the small boy, I actually don’t think he knows what’s going on at any moment in time
🍞💕Scone- middle child energy (IYKYK), troublemaker™️
🍩💕Donut- here for a good time, heating mat HOG, always keeping one paw out of the kennel to catch that breeze
🍞💕Muffin- actually the sweetest baby to ever exist, NEEDS attention 24/7 or she will shrivel up into dust, have we mentioned that she is a BABY

We have a pretty even split of boys and girls this time around! Crumpet is our singleton and definitely a 3 on the spicy pepper meter🌶️. Both Rye and Pumpernickel are, in scientific terms, TOO BIG to be from the same litter as the rest of the kittens. They all came from the same barn/farm, but it’s very likely that the crew just banded together to form one large group once they started to explore.

With 8 kittens come 8 times the vet care, food, and litter, so try to keep us in your thoughts! If you’re interested, check out the ways you can help below👇👇👇

Our current cat tree raffle! $5 per entry, check out our latest post about it!

Amazon Wishlist:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2XW6JP7713GY3?ref_=wl_share

Venmo:

https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3806226391500208374&created=1701203233.931196&printed=1

Shop link:
https://www.straybythebay.com/s/shop

The Coffee Roaster Affiliate:
http://coffeeroasterlnk.com/STRAYBYTHEBAY

11/09/2024

Cats out of the bag, we’re having another cat tree giveaway! 🐱🌳

This super cute Moonlight Cat Tree and matching food/water bowl are up for grabs this time around! Interested in winning this fabulous duo? Check out what you need to know below!

⭐️$5 per entry
☁️No cap on number of entries
⭐️Winner will be announced on Sunday (11/17) afternoon/evening through a instagram live video
☁️Must be in or willing to meet in Lincoln to claim your prize

Good luck to everyone who enters and thank you for your support! 💜🐱

11/09/2024

✨It’s that time of year again✨
This weekend we’re at the second annual Handmade Holiday Kickoff at the Gateway Mall! We’re right next to the Round 1 and have lots of goodies with us today including our newest cat tree raffle (which is Lucy approved!).
Our goal this weekend is to raise at least $600 and that is the absolute minimum it would take to get our newest group of EIGHT kittens that we took in this past Thursday spayed and neutered! We’ll be introducing them to you later this afternoon so keep those eyes peeled👀🍞

11/06/2024

Here’s some kitten pictures to take your mind off things 🐱💕

11/06/2024

The cat is out of the bag! Not that we were hiding it, but we’ll be back at the Second Annual Handmade Holiday Kick Off this upcoming Saturday! Be sure to stop by, chat about cats, and most importantly: donate towards the cafe! We can’t do it without all you lovely supporters!💕🐱

11/04/2024

This is not the update we were hoping for from Kitten Nugget Rescue, but it’s important that everyone knows what panleuk can do to these helpless kittens. These guys were not old enough to get vaccinated and that’s why it’s so important for other cats in our community that can be vaccinated against this terrible virus get vaccinated for FVRCP. With that being said…

‼️Please make sure your cats are vaccinated and up to date on all their vaccines‼️

Vaccines not only help protect your own cats against these viruses, but also help to keep the rest of the community’s cats safe as well. If you need any help or information about getting your feline friends up to date, send us a message and we’d be more than happy to point you in the right direction.

This is where 4 kittens should be, warm and safe.
This is where 4 kittens were fighting for their lives.
This is where 4 kittens took their final breaths.

This is the devastation that Panleukopenia causes the victim(s) to endure, and those of us who dedicate ourselves to try to pull them through.

We had no survivors. 😭 Despite intervention and medical treatment being started and as much supportive care as possible - the virus took too strong of a hold and their little, innocent bodies were too weak.
One by one they began to fade. When the first passed (the biggest of the litter) I knew the chances were getting lower and lower for the others. We kept fighting. The second started to refuse food, so had to begin tube feeding. It passed shortly after. The two smallest were still eating well but quickly began to be more and more lethargic. They passed away within an hour of each other.

Their lives ended before they even really got to live.

All I can do is take comfort in knowing that I did everything I could - and they weren’t alone or cold or discarded. They knew love and compassion during their final moments. And that matters. 💔

11/03/2024

Today Stray By The Bay is hanging out at for their first ever Fall Barket! We’re hanging out 12-4pm today, so make sure to stop by and check out this really fun event!

11/02/2024

There has been an insane increase in feline panleukopenia this year, not only across the country, but right here in Lincoln. Kitten Nugget Rescue has gone from maybe one kitten a year to over a dozen kitten with panleuk just this year alone. Make sure to read KNR’s panleuk journey on their page and see why the vaccine is so important. The FVRCP vaccine is our best way to stop the spread of this highly contagious virus that is absolutely devastating the kitten rescue and shelter community. Make sure your feline friends are up to date on their vaccinations and help stop the spread today!
If you would like to educate yourself more on this topic, please make sure to check out Kitten Nugget Rescue’s page as they have done a great job documenting their struggles with the virus this year. Kitten Lady also put out an amazing informative video highlighting her experience with the virus this year as well.
Let’s all do our part to make sure our cats and others in the community as safe and healthy 💕🐱

The Pandemic of Panleukopenia : Part what-feels-like-9,648,337. 😔

I posted in a veterinary staff group I am part of back when Skit’s Kits got sick and SO MANY people stated they have seen an ENORMOUS increase in feline panleuk and canine parvo cases this year, nationwide.

A lady took in an orphaned litter from someone, hoping her nursing mom cat would take them in. Mama didn’t accept them. Bottle feeding began. A few days later they started having diarrhea. Then blood was noticed in the stools. She reached out worried something else was wrong and asked for help.

The 4 tiny babies had the “telltale look” of panleuk (thin, dull, sunken features) and the rapid test I rushed to do confirmed it.
Now the lady, just trying to do a good deed by trying to give them a mom, has to worry about her cat’s 4 week old kittens as well as the mom.
Now SIX more kittens are at risk besides the ones I took in.
Now FOUR more kittens this year are sick and fighting a hard fight with odds stacked against them.
Now ELEVEN MORE LIVES are at stake due to a virus that is PREVENTABLE by vaccination.

The lady is devastated and worried sick for all the kittos involved. I urged her that it is NOT her fault and any “normal” person wouldn’t think of the dangers of combining kittens into one group. Any “normal” person doesn’t know how rampant the virus is right now, let alone the symptoms to watch out for.
Only the ones of us who have witnessed panleuk truly knows the extent of how horrible this virus is. Only the ones of us who have dealt with the heartache of watching a little one fade away despite every single effort made come to realization that quarantine and disinfecting is the best policy when taking in a new kitten(s).

The amount of panleuk just myself has seen this kitten season is INSANE. I may get MAYBE one a year that - now that I know way too well the “look” and symptoms - is sick like this. This year I have had OVER A DOZEN.

This is my plea, my urging, my begging, to PLEASE vaccinate your cats with the FVRCP (P is for Panleukopenia) vaccine (indoors only, outdoors only, farm/barn cats, indoor/outdoor)! Help halt this wildfire of a virus that is plaguing and taking innocent lives! 😭
Ask your vet if they provide the 3 year vaccination if you’re concerned about annual vaccinations (yes, it does exist). Also - please spay and neuter your kittos - indoor, outdoor, indoor/outdoor. This would also help decrease the spread.

New babies are in quarantine and thank goodness for the donations from Skit’s Kits battle - because I still have plenty of PPE gear on hand to be able to care for them and take all precautions.

Here’s hoping I get to post more “miracle updates” and not heartbreaking ones. 😔

10/30/2024

Happy National Cat Day to all of our followers, supporters, friends, family, and fellow cat lovers and owners! We hope you spent the day spoiling your all kitties in your life with some love and affection💕😊 We hope to have some fun news for y’all soon!👀

10/13/2024

Today we’re at the last Market on 14th! We have all our usual goodies, so be sure to come out and help us open Lincoln’s 1st cat cafe!

10/11/2024

Help another local Lincoln cat rescue! Potter could really use your help to get his pet back in working condition!

10/09/2024

🍎Apple Baby Update🍎
Macintosh (Charlie) and Pink Lady (Natalie) are all ready for adoption! Did either of these sweet little apples catch your eye? Head over to the Beatrice Humane Society and adopt these cuties!

09/29/2024

☀️Today’s the day!☀️
Pet Palooza 2024 is happening NOW Harbor Coffeehouse and Earth + Home on 14th and Pioneers! Join us and help support Big Red Rescue and our big dreams of opening up Lincoln’s first cat cafe!