What is Bella’s CatNap?
Bella's CatNap formerly a non-profit, no-kill cat shelter, now has a new mission to help look after our stray cats and dogs. Our new non-profit community project will start in April of 2025. Keep an eye on our social media for updates!
What’s the story?
When I was about 5, my older brother and I rescued an injured bird, that was when my love for helping animals started. Fast forward to 2018, I decided to open a cat shelter. Bella’s CatNap was born, and once we had at least 30 cats.
2020, COVID happened, and everything started to fall a part, there were less donation, my own income was affected, and my mom was sick. We still went through the tough time, but eventually in 2022, the impact was too much that we had to make the decision to close down the shelter.
My love for looking after animals has never died, I knew I’d start something again. And with God’s blessing, we will start a small programme to look after stray animals, primarily cats and dogs in April 2025.
Much, love. Fatimah.
What’s the plan?
Running a cat shelter for a few years made me realise that this is not the long term solution for our stray and abandoned animals. Seeing how Instanbul have a community looking after their strays, I was inspired to try create a program where we educate the public about the community looking after each other, including the animals.
Education is the centre of it. Second, the feeding and well being programme, where we feed strays and making sure they are not sick or injured. Third, is the trap and neuter programme where we plan to work with other societies to control the population of the strays. Fourth, is the raising fund programme, where we raise money to keep running our programmes, and help shelters or other animal societies. Our priority will be our own programme, if we have more we will help others.
Who is Bella?
You might be wondering by now who is Bella?
Bella is one of the cats rescued before the shelter existed. She was the reason Bella’s CatNap started, so that we could find a place for her and the others. Sadly, a few months before Bella’s CatNap begun, Bella left us and went to kitty heaven.
Fun fact, Bella’s CatNap logo was inspired by this picture of her napping.
