Help animals

Emergency aid

How animal lifes are saved

Those animals that are not yet able to benefit from the effects of the sustainable SUST development work and have been born into a world where they are not wanted need immediate help.

SUST offers immediate assistance through:

Emergency aid

SUST Emergency help is done by

  • Animal rescue operations
  • Social work in Switzerland
  • Financing of all livestock rescue services of the Swiss Large Animal Rescue Service
  • Laying hens actions (switching of "out-of-date" laying hens)
  • Organisation, implementation and/or financing of emergency plans and operations
  • Work horse treatments
  • First aid and veterinary interventions

 
and through the

SUST Orphan Animal Hospitals (SUST)

In many countries countless abandoned animals live on the streets. Many of these dogs and cats have been abandoned or have already been born as strays. Life on the street is dangerous and full of privation. Injured and sick animals usually have no chance of surviving and die mostly painfully and alone on the street. In such cases, there is often not a lack of willingness to help animal-loving people, but a lack of financial means to have street animals treated by a veterinarian.
 
To help these animals in need, the Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation set up the SUST Orphan Animal Hospitals.
 
There are currently one of these institutions in
 

 
Ever since its opening, animals that have been injured or ill are admitted daily to the SUST Orphan Animal Hospitals, where they are cared for and treated professionally. If the animals are healthy and strong enough to survive on the streets after their recovery, they will be released back to their territory. Special patients with special needs will be accommodated in animal shelters if possible. Fortunately, it is also possible to find new life places for patients on an ongoing basis.
 
The Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation finances the veterinary costs, clinic equipment, medicines, operations, therapies, food and care in the animal orphan hospitals. Often, SUST also finances the construction of the corresponding clinic.
 
The activities of the Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare are financed exclusively by donations and legacies (no public support).

If you would like to find out more about the other SUST-emergency aid projects, such as:

  • Social work for Animals
  • Näpflein füll' Dich
  • Livestock rescue
  • Laying hens
  • Amphibians
  • Emergency actions
  • Rabies control
  • Feeding points for street dogs
  • Emergency food aid from SUST
  • SaveMyLive
  • Help for Ukrainian refugees and their pets

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Activities

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Successful SUST laying hen campaign

At its laying hen campaign on Saturday, July 18, the SUST was able to deliver over 650 spent laying hens to new homes. Once again, all the hens from the farm found a good new home: not a single animal had to make its way to the butcher's store.

The new keepers waited patiently in a long queue until they could receive and take home their "bred out" hens in Watt (ZH). These animals are now allowed to stay in their new homes until the natural end of their lives.

The SUST place supervisors will continue to support the new hen keepers with advice and assistance in the future.

--> We thank the farmer for the long and good cooperation: www.oggthefarmer.ch/

--> And we thank the leaders of this

SUST project Sabina Flammer and Simone Maurer for their tireless efforts!

--> We thank all SUST helpers who packed hens, prepared boxes and crates, kept lists and did many other important jobs during this campaign!

Laying hens are hard working egg producers The life of a laying hen is short and busy: After ten to twelve months of intensive egg laying for their producer, they come into the so-called moult. The molt is a hormonally induced rest period during which the laying apparatus of the animals regenerates and the feathers are renewed. The moult lasts two to three months, at least three weeks of which are spent laying. During this time, the hens no longer produce the desired profit and are therefore gassed (or otherwise killed) after this first laying period and replaced with young chickens.

Two million laying hens are killed in Switzerland every year after only a few months of their lives, although they could still live for a long time. However, some of them are lucky and are allowed to live on: The Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare was able to reach an agreement with the owners of various laying farms to take over animals for which it finds a new, species-appropriate place and continue placing them. Such removals have taken place several times a year since 2010.

--> Here you can learn more about the SUST lay hen campaign: www.susyutzinger.ch/Aktivitaeten-/Soforthilfe/Legehennen

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Successful SUST laying hen campaign
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