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In the Stray video game, you can now embody a very real and adoptable cat at the SPA

Since its release last July, Stray continues to grow in popularity. In this video game, the player embodies a stray cat trying to extricate himself from a hostile world, populated by robots and mysterious individuals.

The red-robed feline character isn’t the only option now. Instead, we can now choose Pastels, Doc, Little Shrimp, Zoya or Cuddle, quadrupeds which are very real. These are, in fact, 5 cats living in a SPA shelter and who have been modeled to create their virtual alter egos, reported West France Tuesday, August 30.


The SPA – Society for the Protection of Animals / Facebook

If the game Stray is available on PC, PlayStation 4 et PlayStation 5the new cats representing the SPA are playable, for the moment, only on computer.

At the Society for the Protection of Animals, the success of Stray is seen as an opportunity to raise public awareness of current issues such as abandonment. The association and the agency in charge of its communication therefore had the idea of ​​making it a vehicle for campaigns, targeting the youngest in particular.

The direct objective is therefore to find families for the 5 cats mentioned above and the many other animals waiting to be offered a chance in the dozens of shelters in France.

The approach also aims to ensure that as many players as possible integrate the notion of respect for animal welfare and understand that abandoning a cat, a dog or any other companion is a real disaster. The SPA recalls, in fact, that more than 10,000 animal abandonments have been recorded since 1is May 2022 (2000 more than in 2020).

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A game resolutely turned towards the animal cause

Through this initiative called “ Adopt a Mod », the SPA and the team of Stray therefore hope to help mitigate this trend, so that there is less animal suffering and awareness among owners and those who will become owners.

The project was also mentioned in the first issue of the new show The Animal Touchbroadcast on l’application Brut. and available in replay on Todocat.

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Stray has therefore become much more than a simple video game. We have seen this with the charitable actions carried out recently by its creators or those launched by other parties and which are directly inspired by it. These are all contributions that the animal world needs more than ever.