A dedicated animal rights advocate, he campaigned successfully against the Royal Buckhounds, opposed vivisection, blood sports, and hunting, and was active in the Humanitarian League and London and Provincial Anti-Vivisection Society.

Stratton also authored a number of books and pamphlets on these issues and published two poetry collections.

[1] Sidney Trist noted that threats against Stratton's life had been made by those who opposed his anti-hunting views.

In 1915, he published Ethelfleda and Other Poems, initially written for the Millenary celebration of Tamworth Castle in 1913.

[2] Stratton fell outside Wokingham Gas Works, likely due to a heart attack, and never recovered from the effects of the accident.

[8] He received a floral tribute from the Committee of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection for his "admiration and affection to the memory of a fearless and untiring champion of the rights of animals".