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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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Hedgehog patient with severe burns

April 2023

This female hedgehog was admitted to the wildlife rehabilitation center "Luana's Dream" in Bucharest, Romania, in mid-March with severe burns. After intensive treatment, the little animal slowly recovered and gained weight.
Although he is already much better, he will not be able to be released into the wild this year. It will take a long time for his spines to fully regenerate. And without its spines a hedgehog is defenceless against predators.
Even though this is a case from Romania, it could just as easily be from Switzerland. Please look out for small creatures the next time you burn garden waste or otherwise light an open fire!
SUST has been supporting the wildlife rehabilitation center "Luana's Dream" in Bucharest for many years. It is one of the few institutions in the country dedicated to the rescue, rearing and release of injured and orphaned wild animals.
Country:
  • Romania
5 Pillars:
  • Emergency Aid
Hedgehog patient with severe burns
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