Stray By The Bay Cat Cafe

Stray By The Bay Cat Cafe Lincoln Nebraska’s 1st Cat Cafe
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Happy National Beach Day!🏖️As you all know, Stray By The Bay is bringing the beach to Lincoln, Nebraska! With our coasta...
08/31/2026

Happy National Beach Day!🏖️

As you all know, Stray By The Bay is bringing the beach to Lincoln, Nebraska! With our coastal, beachy theming throughout the cafe, we hope to bring a little bit of the East Coast to our new home!

While these pictures are just a general vision board and some mock-ups, we hope that our final version will bring the same idea to life!

Don’t forget, if you want to be physically part of Stray By The Bay, you can donate to our GoFundMe! Every donor will get the chance to pick their name, a beloved pet’s name(s), or family name to have forever memorialized in our Cat Cabana room! Stray By The Bay is a place for the community and we couldn’t do it without you all!

https://gofund.me/8c408db20

Thank you to everyone who has donated thus far or has supported us in any way! We are more grateful than could ever be put into words! We hope to see you all at our grand opening later this year🤩

P.S don’t know why Facebook is tagging this as AI info? I slapped a bunch of pictures together in Canva so 🤷‍♀️ Stray By The Bay will NEVER use AI!!!

This is actually insane 😭 Please think about donating to our friends over Domesti-PUPS! They’re a great organization rig...
08/30/2026

This is actually insane 😭 Please think about donating to our friends over Domesti-PUPS! They’re a great organization right here in Lincoln and could use help getting a new AC unit after theirs was stolen! Please donate to Domesti-PUPS so they can get a new unit ASAP and continue to do great things for our community!

It’s our last weekend with THE BOYS!Flapjack and K’nuckles will officially be making their return to Beatrice Humane Soc...
08/29/2026

It’s our last weekend with THE BOYS!

Flapjack and K’nuckles will officially be making their return to Beatrice Humane Society Monday night and will be getting neutered the next day, September 1st!

That means that today was painting night! The best way to go about getting a foster kitten/cat painting without getting paws dirty is by using a ziploc bag or plastic wrap! Take your canvas, add whatever colors you want (in this case we felt Flapjack was Caribbean blue and K’nuckles a deep red), slap a ziploc on top or place it inside if your canvas is small enough, and let them go to town! We’ve found that wet food, churu, and wand toys are the best way to get them moving that paint around. Once they’ve squished it to your liking, peel that plastic off, and viola! You got yourself a work of art!

These happy little chums got a little snack and we got a keepsake of them forever! Really a win-win for everyone!

Ps. Sorry for being a bit MIA this week! Classes started the week before and life got a bit overwhelming 😵‍💫

Y’all picked the design, so why not pick a color too!We picked out 10 possible color choices for the winning design by M...
08/23/2026

Y’all picked the design, so why not pick a color too!

We picked out 10 possible color choices for the winning design by Madison! There’s some lighter choices with the black design and some darker, moodier colors with a white design! These are just some mockups, but we’re thinking of having the design take up the back and then having the front just have “Stray By The Bay” to the left.

Let us know your thoughts!

It’s night market day! Come catch us University Place Creative District Maker’s Market until 10pm!We may not have gotten...
08/21/2026

It’s night market day! Come catch us University Place Creative District Maker’s Market until 10pm!

We may not have gotten enough sardine toys done to bring here (darn college classes started back up this week), but we have our usual goodies and news about our physical location!

Of course there’s plenty of other vendors, food options, and live music! Hope to see you soon!

Hello Crew!We had a quick meeting with our physical location renovation team today and got some quick updates! Demo star...
08/21/2026

Hello Crew!

We had a quick meeting with our physical location renovation team today and got some quick updates! Demo started over the weekend and they were able to get all of the Blockbuster blue carpet and old drop ceiling out. While they’re waiting for the last of the permits to come through, they’ll be working on getting some non-permit related things done like mapping out the plumbing we’ll need in different areas of the cafe!

We should have a more detailed construction schedule in hand soon, but for now it looks like everything should be completed by the first week or two of December! Obviously things can change, but we want to keep you all as updated as possible!

In the next 30 days or so, we’ll start picking out swatches for flooring, paint colors, counter tops, etc. We’re so excited to actually see our vision come to life 😻

If you want to become physically part of Stray By The Bay, think about donating to our GoFundMe! Each donor gets to pick a name (their own, a pet, family name, etc) to be on the wall of the Cat Cabana room! Thank you to everyone who has donated already! Stray By The Bay wouldn’t be possible without the community!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-bring-stray-by-the-bay-cat-cafe-to-life/cl/o?utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp30-treatment-7&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&lang=en_US

Look at these handsome boys😻I knew they were going to grow up to be beautiful boys, but who knew they’d be this stinking...
08/19/2026

Look at these handsome boys😻

I knew they were going to grow up to be beautiful boys, but who knew they’d be this stinking cute!

K’nuckles is our smiley little boy! He now loves to run up and meet us at the door to soak up all the pets he can get. When he gets curious, he loves to sit up like a little meerkat, something that is slowly rubbing off onto little foster brother Flapjack!

Flapjack is getting so big, I can’t believe he used to be 1 apple tall and is now less than 4 ounces shy of 2 pounds😭 His cute little eyebrows always make it look like he’s worried, but I don’t think he posses the ability to be anything other than a happy little man!

These two are going to make someone very happy one day and it should be soon! Once Flapjack hits 2 pounds, they’ll be making the drive back (we’ll be driving technically) to Beatrice Humane Society to get some more shots, a microchip, and most importantly: NEUTERED✂️🥳

Once they’ve completed their spa day, they’ll be available for adoption! Flapjack and K’nuckles would make the purr-fect pair, but I’m sure they would also do just fine in a household with a younger or more tolerable adult cat!

IT’S BLACK CAT APPRECIATION DAY!You know we got a soft spot for these little ink spots! We’d love to see your void kitti...
08/18/2026

IT’S BLACK CAT APPRECIATION DAY!

You know we got a soft spot for these little ink spots! We’d love to see your void kitties 🖤🐈‍⬛

Can you believe that we’ve only had a DOZEN black cats in our care excluding our OG Skwid?

LCOW, GameCube, Fuji, Rye, Bagel, Joey, Ross, Puddin’, Chip, Gimli, Cal, and Mari!

I’m sure that number will go up in the near future😻

It’s getting close to that time again…The University Place Creative District Maker’s Market is this Friday 6pm-10pm! We ...
08/17/2026

It’s getting close to that time again…

The University Place Creative District Maker’s Market is this Friday 6pm-10pm! We should have some new goodies to shop and maybe even some news about our physical location👀

Of course there’s plenty of other amazing vendors and live music to see!

Today while at the vaccine clinic at Superior Veterinary Care , we were able to meet a cat volunteer for the Capital Hum...
08/16/2026

Today while at the vaccine clinic at Superior Veterinary Care , we were able to meet a cat volunteer for the Capital Humane Society ! She brought up that they currently have three amazing, adoptable cats in their care that could use a little extra help finding their forever homes!

Whiskers, Jackson, and Sova are all very sweet, cuddly cats, but have been turned down by several adopters due to their special needs. All three need a special diet of Hill’s c/d due to previous urinary tract issues. This means that if they were adopted into a multi-cat home, feedings would need to be kept separate to make sure they’re not sneaking any bites of non-prescription food which could possibly cause more urinary tract issues.

If a sweet adult cat is what you’re looking for and you’re not afraid of feeding a prescription diet (it’s not that scary we promise!), head on down to the Pieloch Pet Adoption Center to meet these three! We’re sure a volunteer or team member would love to tell you more about their personalities and needs!

PS. we absolutely adore Whiskers’ beauty mark😻

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