http://straycats.love/ Recent content on StrayCats http://straycats.love/images/straycats-social.jpg http://straycats.love/images/straycats-social.jpg Hugo en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/posts/the-cats-nobody-owns/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/posts/the-cats-nobody-owns/ Where this idea started: a house full of cats in Puerto Escondido, and a question about who looks after them. http://straycats.love/posts/the-cat-outlives-us/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/posts/the-cat-outlives-us/ Everything I know about these cats lives in my head and on Instagram. When I leave, it leaves with me. http://straycats.love/posts/many-names-one-cat/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 02:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/posts/many-names-one-cat/ Some of ‘my’ cats are clearly well fed somewhere else. I don’t know where, or what those people call them. http://straycats.love/posts/all-talk-no-code/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 03:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/posts/all-talk-no-code/ Why I’m deliberately not building anything yet. http://straycats.love/posts/naming-the-thing/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 04:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/posts/naming-the-thing/ Every project needs a code name. Here’s how this one got its name. http://straycats.love/posts/a-photo-is-an-introduction/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/posts/a-photo-is-an-introduction/ When people meet a cat, they take a photo. What if that photo introduced them to the cat, and the cat to everyone who could help it? http://straycats.love/posts/ninja-the-talk-of-the-town/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/posts/ninja-the-talk-of-the-town/ Ninja was skin and bone when I arrived. Not everyone who loves cats can afford to feed them all, so what happens to the ones left over? http://straycats.love/ideas/the-building-blocks/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/ideas/the-building-blocks/ Twelve concepts the system will need to understand, long before anyone writes code. http://straycats.love/ideas/meeting-a-cat/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/ideas/meeting-a-cat/ Meeting a cat should take one photo and feel like a small gift. But the gift is for the cat: every meeting adds to its story and helps the people who look after it. http://straycats.love/ideas/cat-identity/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/ideas/cat-identity/ How do you model one cat that has three names, two homes and no clear owner? http://straycats.love/ideas/open-cat-identity/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/ideas/open-cat-identity/ An idea for a global, open standard for cat identification: a collar anyone can scan, with no app and no single company in charge. http://straycats.love/ideas/encounters/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/ideas/encounters/ Each time someone meets a cat, they add a little to its shared history. http://straycats.love/ideas/care-network/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/ideas/care-network/ Many people quietly care for the same cats with no coordination. What if they could find each other? http://straycats.love/ideas/education-and-awareness/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/ideas/education-and-awareness/ Many of the dangers cats face come from things people simply don’t know. Awareness may help cats more than any feature. http://straycats.love/ideas/lost-and-found/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/ideas/lost-and-found/ Many ‘strays’ are someone’s pet, and many pets live like strays. Ownership is a spectrum. http://straycats.love/ideas/paper-collar/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/ideas/paper-collar/ A loose paper strip around a friendly cat’s neck asks, “Is this cat yours?” It isn’t a new idea, but StrayCats could make it a bridge between people who use the platform and people who don’t. http://straycats.love/ideas/when-a-cat-goes-missing/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/ideas/when-a-cat-goes-missing/ A missing cat is one of the hardest things a person who loves cats goes through. The people who’ve met that cat may be the best chance of finding it. http://straycats.love/ideas/privacy-and-safety/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/ideas/privacy-and-safety/ Location data about vulnerable animals can be misused. How do we protect them? http://straycats.love/ideas/open-data-and-tech/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/ideas/open-data-and-tech/ Thoughts on how the app could be built, hosted and kept sustainable as a non-profit. http://straycats.love/ideas/help-easier-than-dumping/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/ideas/help-easier-than-dumping/ If help was as easy to find as a public toilet, fewer cats would end up by the road. A lost cat and a dumped cat look the same, so prevention has to come before proof. http://straycats.love/app/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/app/ Progress photos of the StrayCats app as it’s being built, newest first. http://straycats.love/about/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/about/ What StrayCats is, where it came from, and what it isn’t (yet). http://straycats.love/embed/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/embed/ A small, free card that links your website to the StrayCats project. Paste two lines of HTML, and it keeps itself up to date. http://straycats.love/saibo/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/saibo/ This project is dedicated to Saibo, 1 August 2010 – 16 September 2026. http://straycats.love/involve/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/involve/ There’s no app to join and nothing to sign up for. Here are easy ways to help, from a one-line hello to a longer chat. http://straycats.love/feedback/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/feedback/ Tell me what I’m missing. http://straycats.love/talk/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/talk/ Book a relaxed 30-minute chat about the cats in your life and your ideas for StrayCats. http://straycats.love/press/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/press/ For journalists and bloggers: StrayCats in brief, the logo and artwork to download, and how to reach me. http://straycats.love/whats-new/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://straycats.love/whats-new/ Been here before? Here’s what’s new and what’s changed, newest first.