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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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SUST-CATFORCE

December 2023

The "Catforce" is a group of voluntary SUST animal welfare helpers who actively and with a lot of expertise engage in cat neutering campaigns in Switzerland.

It can quickly happen that a "normal" cat keeping situation gets out of control. That's why we launched the Catforce.

Last week, the CATFORCE was in action in the Winterthur region. What started as a few mousers quickly turned into a 21-member cat colony on a horse farm. 20 of these cats were caught, tested, treated, vaccinated, chipped, marked, and neutered.

One of them was too small for neutering, but it voluntarily joined and was immediately adopted and named (Susy).

Real animal welfare involves more than just feeding stray cat colonies. It's about capturing feral cats, getting them neutered, and then, if possible, releasing them back into their familiar environment (while continuing to care for them).

Thank you for making this sustainable animal welfare work possible with your donations.
www.susyutzinger.ch/spenden
AND a big thank you to the team at wintivets AG for their veterinary support.


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Country:
  • Switzerland
5 Pillars:
  • Neutering Campaigns
SUST-CATFORCE
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