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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  • Laying hens actions (switching of "out-of-date" laying hens)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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Surviving animals from Borodyanka, Ukraine

June 2022

The war in Ukraine leads to situations for which it is impossible to prepare properly.  It is also enormously difficult to verify information and to secure facts. But there is a point when we no longer check backgrounds, but simply act. That is, when it is no longer important why an animal suffers - but important THAT it no longer suffers.

As in this case, from the municipal shelter in Borodyanka (UA), where 500 dogs were left alone and locked up without food and water.

Only 230 survived. 9 of them, after intensive care were finally in condition to be transported, are now with us at the SUST shelter in Galati, Romania. Their history is not an easy one to digest, nor do we know for sure how the story went in detail.

We are only sure that the films and pictures sent to us are almost unbearably tragic and so sad that we ask you not to watch them if pictures of dead animals and animal misery can be stressful, disturbing or retraumatizing for you.

The facts and information we have on this case can be found here:

 
We will keep you up to date how you can support the 9 surviving animals on our facebook page.
 
Country:
  • Romania
  • Ukraine
5 Pillars:
  • Emergency Aid
Surviving animals from Borodyanka, Ukraine
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