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Neutering campaigns


Neutering campaigns

Slowing down the animal misery: SUST is tackling it sustainably

Hundreds of thousands of street dogs and cats fight for survival in many countries, countless of them are trapped and many of them vegetate in terrible conditions, while new unwanted offspring are constantly being born. The suffering of unwelcome dogs and cats is endless in many countries.
Neutering is the only way to reduce the overpopulation of street animals in a long-term and animal-friendly way. Thousands of dogs, cats and other animals have already been operated on by the Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation in various countries. This measure has prevented countless unwanted offspring from being born. Such actions have a future: no more emaciated mothers on the streets, no more famine and no more sexually transmitted diseases, in which the animals die miserably.
 
If the number of street animals is reduced, no more cruelty to animals will be tackled: no more poisoning, no more slaughtered animals, no more shooting. In this way the animal misery is slowed down, slowly but steadily and sustainably.
 
The area of the pillar "neutering campaigns" includes:
 
- Collaboration with veterinarians all over Switzerland for cat neutering campaigns
- takeover of the neutering costs of stocks from farms and feral groups
- Rental of cat and dog traps
- Brochure "Cat neutering = active animal protection
- informing the population about this topic by posters and leaflets
- Discussions with authorities and politicians
- Training and further training of specialized personnel for the execution of neutering campaigns
- Implementation of neutering weeks in various countries by SUST teams
- Financing of neutering campaigns in different countries
 
The activities of the Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation are financed exclusively by donations and legacies (no public support).
 
Donate for the spay/neuter campaigns of the Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation
These many operations are very effective, but cost a lot of money and therefore we need your help and support: Give hope and instead of the usual gifts, give one (or more) animal (s) the hope for a better life! A neutering gives an animal many advantages and does no longer contribute to the overpopulation of unwanted animals.
 
Here you can find more information about how you can donate: www.susyutzinger.ch/en/Donate
To find out even more about the spay and neutering programmes of SUST please visit the german version of the website by using a translator extention of your browser.

 

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Cat castrations/neuterings Switzerland

 

While we like to point our finger abroad, we often forget that there is also a lot of animal suffering in Switzerland. On abandoned factory premises, in allotment gardens and on remote farms, animal tragedies often take place - very often in secret. At these places, countless kittens are born every day, for which nobody really feels responsible and which nobody wants to have. As a rule, they become wild, just like their parents. To find a good home for feral cats is almost impossible, because most people want a cat to cuddle, not one that hides under the sofa for days with its eyes torn wide open with fear. In animal shelters they therefore become permanent guests who are difficult to place and suffer from confinement. If they live in freedom, they are defenselessly at the mercy of diseases, territory fights and killing actions. Many of them are therefore condemned to an early, painful death.

How much suffering would they have been spared if they had not been born in the first place?

It has been proven that castration/neutering campaigns are the only sustainable method to contain the overpopulation of stray animals in a long-term and animal-friendly manner. Cats that are captured and castrated/neutered and released in their territory claim a territory in their habitat and thus prevent other cats from migrating. A "rehabilitated" population of castrated cats no longer grows and there is no "supply" of feral cats. Thus, the number of unwanted animals is minimized in the course of time in a natural way.

Many Swiss veterinarians support the SUST approach and castrate these feral populations at reduced prices. Last year alone, the SUST was able to finance 520 cat castrations/neuterings in Switzerland in cooperation with 41 renowned veterinarians, thus making a major contribution to the fight against cat misery in Switzerland. In addition, SUST donates and lends numerous cat traps, gives away transport baskets, bowls and cloths, donates food for feral colonies, gives away SUST guidelines "Cat castration campaigns = active animal welfare" free of charge and conducts educational campaigns on this subject.

The demand for financial support for cat castration campaigns is growing steadily, but the awareness of the immense need for such measures and the willingness to donate for them is negligible.

Therefore we urgently need your help so that we can make at least as many (or even more) castrations possible this year. Please participate in our crowdfunding for cat castrations in Switzerland. Every franc counts!

Incoming donations will flow into this year's budget for cat castrations in Switzerland without deduction and will enable us to continue to have additional castrations.

Our goal is to collect CHF 15,000 with this crowdfunding. 

This way, we enable the castration of 125 queens (Fr. 120.-- / queen) or 187 tomcats (Fr. 80.-- / tomcat). 

Cat castrations/neuterings Switzerland
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