Somewhere near you there’s a feeding spot. A couple of bowls under a tree, filled every evening by someone who never misses a day. The cats know the time. So do the neighbours.
That person probably knows each cat by name. They know which one has a sore eye, which one hasn’t turned up for three days, and which one is pregnant again. And almost none of it is written down anywhere that anyone else can see.
The care is scattered
Street cats are everywhere, and so are the people who look out for them. The problem isn’t that nobody cares. It’s that the care doesn’t connect.
- Nobody counts. No one knows how many cats a street has, which are neutered, or who feeds them.
- Help gets lost. Someone who spots a hurt cat has no one to tell, and never hears what happened.
- Records live in paper and chats. Volunteers and shelters keep track in notebooks and group chats that scroll away.
- Cities guess. Councils make decisions about street cats without real numbers.
Three platforms, one cat’s story
We don’t think one app can serve everyone. A teenager snapping cats on the way to school, a volunteer running a neutering day and a council officer planning a budget need very different things. So StrayBond is three platforms, each built for the people using it, all sharing one record per cat.
- Island of Cats, for cat lovers: a game where you catch the cats you meet, get to know each one, and report the ones in need.
- StrayCare, for caretakers, shelters and vets: a work app to act on reports, run colonies, neuter, take in and rehome cats.
- StrayWatch, for cities: colonies, neutering, reports and shelter space in their own area, in plain numbers.
Here’s how one cat moves through them. A player meets a cat and it gets its own identity. A caretaker feeds and neuters it. If it needs one, a shelter takes it in. The city sees the outcome in its numbers. And the person who first reported it hears what happened.
Why start with a game
Most people will never volunteer at a shelter. But plenty of people already stop to photograph a cat on a wall. Island of Cats turns that habit into something useful: every catch helps someone know who that cat is, where it lives and how it’s doing.
And once you know a cat by name, you look out for it. Fun is how people start caring. Helping comes next.
What we hold to
- Cats come first. We never reward bothering a cat, and never reveal where one lives.
- Real, never made up. Real cats, real photos, real people.
- The reporter hears back. Whoever reports a cat sees what happened to it.
- Those who care never pay. Players, caretakers and volunteers use it free.
Starting in Cyprus
Cyprus is the island of cats, where cats are said to outnumber people. It’s where we live, and where we’re proving the model first.
Island of Cats is out now on Android. StrayCare is in development. StrayWatch comes after that. Once it works here, we’ll take it to any place with street cats.
How you can help
- Play. Get Island of Cats and catch the cats near you. Every cat you meet helps build the map.
- Look after cats? If you feed a colony, run a shelter or work at a vet clinic, try StrayCare early.
- Work for a council? Talk to us about what you’d want to see.
Street cats and people, living well together. That’s the whole idea.
