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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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Help for animals of people affected by poverty

May 2023

A special commitment is the SUST social work for animals:
Many people affected by poverty have an animal by their side as their only partner, but can hardly afford the upkeep or even veterinary care for their four-legged friend. This is a Swiss problem that hardly anyone talks about: untreated diseases, lack of parasite treatments and also unwanted offspring (due to lack of finances for neutering) are the sad consequences and affect the lives of both animal and pet owner. Many health problems could be solved in their early stages if these people had a contact person for the problems of their animals; however, often they and their animals do not get access to veterinary practices because they lack the financial means or the people are unwelcome as addicts. The result of this is: the animals suffer in silence for months or years until they eventually often have to be put down.
The Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare cooperates with alley works, animal boards, social welfare offices and integration projects throughout Switzerland and supports these animal owners on various levels:
- Feed deliveries: SUST delivers animal feed to its partners for free distribution to pet owners affected by poverty.
- Veterinary care: SUST veterinarians are regularly at various locations in Switzerland. These missions provide first aid and treat, vaccinate, deworm animals.
- Neutering: SUST covers the costs for dog and cat neuterings at its partner veterinarians.
- Material donations: The SUST delivers animal utensils to its partners in Switzerland so that these materials can be given free of charge to marginal animal owners.
- Education and prevention: With its well-founded expertise, the SUST (or the SUST veterinary team on the occasion of consultation hours) educates animal owners about topics relevant to animal welfare by means of brochures or in personal conversations and thus helps to avoid dangerous situations for the animals.
 
--> Here you can learn more about the SUST-Sozialarbeit für Tiere (social work for animals)
Country:
  • Switzerland
5 Pillars:
  • Emergency Aid
Help for animals of people affected by poverty
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