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Education and Training

Education and training of specialists

The Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation's guiding principle is "Let's tackle the root of the problem". In addition to the optimisation of animal shelters and neutering campaigns in Switzerland and many other countries, the training and further education of veterinarians and animal protectionists is an important pillar of this philosophy: The SUST veterinary training courses are known for their quality and efficiency.
 
Animal welfare activists learn elementary principles for the handling and care of animals and for the management of animal shelters, veterinarians are brought up to date with the latest neutering techniques by internationally recognized colleagues and experience new and important things for the implementation of such campaigns.
 
This lays the foundation for further successful neutering campaigns to meet the quality standard demanded by SUST: This means that countless unwanted young animals do not have to be born and suffer in the first place. It has been proven that the overpopulation of dogs and cats can only be contained in the long term and animal-friendly by neutering campaigns.

This is what we have set ourselves the goal of our animal welfare work: the problem is being tackled at the root!

The pillar "basic and advanced training of specialists" includes

- Courses at the SUST Academy
- Veterinary training in different countries
- Animal welfare seminars in different countries
- ERFA events in Switzerland
- Internships for veterinarians, students and veterinary assistants in different countries
- Trainee programme for young Swiss veterinarians of SUST and Kompanima
- personal training of experts during SUST operations
- Co-financing of training centres

If you'd like to find out more about other the Specialist Education & Training projects of SUST, please access the German version of the website using your browser's translation extension.
 
The activities of the Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation are financed exclusively by donations and legacies (no public support).

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Rare guests at the amphibian haul...

March 2023

Hooray, they are still there!
They are rare guests at our "frog cabs", the SUST helpers who tirelessly help the amphibians across the road in all weathers, early in the morning and late in the evening, at the amphibian migration site at Brauiweiher (Weisslingen/Agasul, ZH).
When a fire salamander is found among frog, toad, newt and co., it is worth a dance of joy.
In former times there were fire salamanders in masses. Today, you don't see many anymore and if you do, you'll only see them flattened on the road.
But, our helpers report; at the Brauiweiher, fire salamanders have been increasingly seen again in the last three years. "We were able to count 10 animals in one evening".
The increased sighting of these fascinating animals is also a good sign for increasing water quality - this makes us happy and we hope that this is the first (albeit small) step away from the red list for the fire salamander.
How you too can become active and lots of exciting information about amphibians:
Country:
  • Switzerland
5 Pillars:
  • Emergency Aid
Rare guests at the amphibian haul...
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