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Laying hens actions (switching of "out-of-date" laying hens)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
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Livestock rescue
Laying hens
Amphibians
Emergency actions
Rabies control
Feeding points for street dogs
Emergency food aid from SUST
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Help for Ukrainian refugees and their pets

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SUST laying hens campaigns: New places to live instead of killing obsolete laying hens

October 2017

SUST laying hens actions: Today 154 laying hens escaped their deaths on a laying farm and could be transferred to good new places.

The life of a laying hen is short and full of work: after ten to twelve months of intensive egg laying for their producer, they get into the so-called moulting. The moulting is a hormonally conditioned rest break in which the laying apparatus of the animals regenerates itself and the plumage is renewed. The moulting takes two to three months, at least three weeks of which a laying break takes place. The hens no longer make the required profit during this period and are therefore gassed (or otherwise killed) after this first laying period and replaced by young chickens. Tens of thousands of laying hens are killed in Switzerland every year after a few months of their lives. However, some of them are lucky enough to be able to live on: the Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation has been able to reach an agreement with the owners of various farms that they will be able to take over and place animals for which they find a new, species-appropriate place. Such campaigns take place several times a year. 154 laying hens were delivered to good new places on a laying farm during the stabling in October 2017.

e regeneriert und das Federkleid erneuert wird. Die Mauser dauert zwei bis drei Monate, mindestens drei Wochen davon findet eine Legepause statt. Die Hennen erbringen in dieser Zeit somit nicht mehr den gewünschten Profit und werden aus diesem Grund nach dieser ersten Legeperiode kurzerhand vergast (oder anders getötet) und gegen junge Hühner ersetzt. Zig-Tausende von Legehennen werden in der Schweiz jährlich nach wenigen Monaten ihres Lebens getötet. Einige von Ihnen haben allerdings Glück und dürfen weiter leben: Die Susy Utzinger Stiftung für Tierschutz konnte sich mit den Inhabern verschiedener Legebetriebe darauf einigen, dass sie Tiere, für die sie einen neuen, artgerechten Platz findet, übernehmen und weiterplatzieren darf. Solche Ausstallungen finden mehrmals jährlich statt. 154 Legehennen konnten bei der Ausstallung im Oktober 2017 auf einem Legebetrieb an gute neue Plätze abgegeben werden.

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Emergency Aid

SUST laying hens campaigns: New places to live instead of killing obsolete laying hens