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Animal Shelter Support

How shelter animals are helped

During the time animals have to spend in an animal shelter, they are entitled to appropriate accommodation (if possible), veterinary care and professional care. Simple wishes, the fulfilment of which is often complex and expensive.
 
The reorganization work of the SUST supports many different animal shelters and animal welfare projects at home and abroad and contributes to the fulfilment of these factors. In this way, serious and independent animal welfare organisations can grow out of needy associations, which in the future can help countless animals to a species-appropriate accommodation and a new, good home. In order to optimize an animal shelter and to bring it on the way of the professional animal assistance, usually years of cooperation and company are necessary.
 
This support can have many different faces: sometimes the experts of the Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation organise a complete rebuilding of an animal shelter, they provide first aid for animals, train experts and carry out castration and aid campaigns.

In dialogue with the animal welfare activists concerned, the restructuring of animal shelters, advice on setting up and managing animal welfare projects and the further training of experts are addressed.
 
The area of the pillar "shelter support" includes
 
- Carrying out of work days in Swiss animal shelters
- Implementation of weeks in foreign animal shelters
- structural change/supplementation of animal shelter facilities
- Reorganization of animal shelter processes
- Coordination and financing of craftsmen's and construction work
- Supply of animal feed
- Delivery of animal shelter equipment (each year 80 - 100 tons of animal utensils leave the SUST warehouse)
- Supply of building materials
- Financing of feed and other material
- Provision of emergency and direct help
- Management of the SUST-material collection action
 
In many cases, SUST provides direct aid without any third party ever knowing about it. Emergency scenarios and plans are set up in no time at all, experts are dispatched and assistance operations are carried out - in emergencies, the organisation provides fast, unbureaucratic and discreet help. When shelters need help, the Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation is there for them.
 
The activities of the Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation are financed exclusively by donations and legacies (no public support).
 
With your donation you help to help shelter animals!

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Activities

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Successful animal welfare mission in June 2019

From early in the morning until late at night, a 9-person SUST animal welfare team from Switzerland worked together with a 10-person Romanian SUST team in Galati, Romania, for one week under the direction of Susy Utzinger in the SUST Animal Orphan Hospital and in the new SUST Animal Home.

The results of this mission are impressive:
- 282 dogs and cats were neutered
- Many feral street dogs were caught with the anesthetic rifle and castrated
- Surgical techniques were discussed and much expertise was shared
- 6 palettes full of animal utensils from the SUST material warehouse were delivered and employed
- A case of Animal Hoarding was repaired (more than 30 dogs were caught with the anaesthesia rifle, transported, neutered and treated - the puppies were taken over by us) 
- Countless emergencies were dealt with, including
o 2 amputations
o A horse treatment
o Several dogs and cats hit by cars
o Multiple eye injuries
o Various abandoned animals
- The new kitten station (made possible by crowdfunding) was completed and the first young cats could move in
- Many puppies were socialized
- 6 new trees were planted on the animal shelter site
- All shelter dogs were treated against endo- and ectoparasites
- The SUST team took over the dog care during this time and so two related animal keepers could finally start their long-awaited family holidays
- Workflows were reorganized and optimized
- Maintenance work was carried out
- The animal shelters donkeys were treated against parasites

We would like to thank all animal welfare volunteers and employees very much for their great and valuable support in this mission: Despite the absence of a team member and an additional team vehicle and despite many unforeseen emergencies and enormously long days of service, we were able to enjoy a great team cohesion and thus always perform professional animal welfare work.

Our heartfelt thanks go to:

- Kathrin Steiner
- Melanie Dietschi
- Stefanie Duss-Massera
- Thomas Korsch
- Maya Karrer
- Sharon Merki
- Marc Schmid
- Milena Ambühl
- Laura Noto

Country:
  • Romania
5 Pillars:
  • Emergency Aid
  • Animal Shelter Support
  • Neutering Campaigns
Successful animal welfare mission in June 2019
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