Bellingham (WORKING CAT)

Bellingham (WORKING CAT)

  • Age 6 years, 1 month
  • Living with children Teenager and Above
  • Breed Domestic Short-hair
  • Living with dogs Can't live with
  • Sex Male
  • Living with cats Can't live with
  • Size Medium
  • Reference ANIMAL13899
  • Centre Battersea, London

More about Bellingham (WORKING CAT)

GOOOAAALLLL! Meet Battersea's very own top scorer!

Bellingham has scored our affection in the cattery team, having been with us for quite a while! He loves to play, dribbling his toys around his pen, scoring plenty of goals!. He loves a warm blanket to curl up on.

He will need patient and understanding new owners that will let him lead interactions, understand he may not want to be fussed and may just want to sit in your company and learn to read his body language to create a long-lasting friendship.

Could you be the manager who gives Bellingham his dream transfer and brings him home?

Bellingham is looking for a calm and settled home. He will need a quiet area to settle into. He may need a few days to acclimatise at his pace, but he tends to make friends quickly, especially when toys are involved.

He will need outside access to a private garden, via a cat flap. He will need a permanent indoor litter tray.

He may be suited to live with older teenagers, dependent on introductions. He isn’t suited to live with other animals.

If you have already completed our online rehoming form and would like to know more about Bellingham, you can e-mail our rehoming team on (cat.rehoming@battersea.org.uk) to register your interest.

We ask every customer to first complete our online form to discuss an individual animal, so if you have not filled in our form yet you can find the details on how to do so here (https://www.battersea.org.uk/rehome/cats).

Please be aware we have a large amount of interest in rehoming our animals, so we are only able to contact those who are a match for the cat you have contacted us about.

Home to rehome with Battersea

Register

Tell us about yourself, your home and your circumstances by completing our online registration form.

Leave it with us

We’ll use the answers you’ve provided and our extensive experience to find a match that works for our cats and for you wherever possible. It can take a bit of time for us to try and match you with a pet – but we promise it’s time well spent.

Speak to our team

When we think we’ve found a potential match, one of our expert rehoming team will then get in touch to understand a bit more about you and discuss next steps.

Rehome

We will then arrange a visit to a Battersea centre to meet your potential new pet.

Rehoming FAQs

Here at Battersea, we assess all of our cats individually and create a rehoming profile for them. To ensure successful matches between people and pets, we use a combination of extensive rehoming experience, our staff expertise and the information you provided in your rehoming form. Once you complete your online registration, you’ll receive a confirmation email to let you know that we have everything we need to begin our matchmaking process, as well as the next steps of the process.

This may not always be the cat you thought it would be, which is why we ask that you see the registration form as a way of registering your interest in rehoming, not an application for a specific animal. We’re experts in making sure we find the right home for our cats and the right cat for your home.

Read the full list of rehoming FAQs.

Once you’ve completed our online registration form, we’ll handle the rest.  Your rehoming registration will be open for up to three months, and in that time, we’ll do our very best to try and match you with a pet that best suits you and your lifestyle. It can take a bit of time for us to try and match you with a pet – but we promise it’s time well spent. We’re committed to getting to know every animal at our centres before finding a match that works for our cats and for you wherever possible.

If we are not able to match you with a cat within three months, we’ll let you know and offer guidance to help you continue your search beyond Battersea.  

Read the full list of rehoming FAQs.

Our rehoming fee is £100 for cats (over six months), £130 for kittens (under six months) or £180 for a pair of cats and £225 for a pair of kittens. We accept cash or debit/credit card as payment (we are unable to accept cheques). The fees include a full vet and behaviour assessment, microchipping, flea and worm treatment, neutering, initial vaccinations, starter pack of food and four weeks of free Petplan insurance. Each cat also goes to their new home with their own blankets and a favourite toy, such as a knitted mouse.

It’s important to consider not just the initial cost of getting a cat or kitten, but the regular cost of insurance, food, equipment and fees at your local veterinary centre so that you are fully prepared for the financial implications of owning a cat.

Read the full list of rehoming FAQs.