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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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Start godmother found - thank you very much, Sharon S.!

February 2024

Recently, a rather special animal found its way to our animal orphan hospital in Galati, Romania. Namely a unicorn! You don't believe it? Then take a closer
take a closer look!
The poor thing was probably separated from her herd at some point and then chased by stray dogs. Because she was unable to flee so quickly due to an older injury to one of her claws, she would certainly have soon become prey. We wanted to spare her this fate, which is why she is now with us. She has been warmly welcomed by everyone and our other goat "Bebelusa" is delighted to finally no longer be the only lady in the herd with a chin beard!
With a one-off donation of CHF 100, the starting sponsor Sharon S. has contributed to the costs incurred to properly register, vaccinate, worm and treat our "unicorn" against ectoparasites. Part of the amount also covered the extra portion of hay that the black beauty is currently eating to get a little more weight on her ribs.
As a thank you, the starting sponsor received a nice certificate and was also allowed to think of a suitable name for her starting sponsored animal.
 
Country:
  • Romania
5 Pillars:
  • Animal Shelter Support
Start godmother found - thank you very much, Sharon S.!
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