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The activities of SUST

All over the world, countless animals in overcrowded shelters live sadly or struggle for their survival in wild colonies. Day after day, even today, animals that have become inconvenient are still abandoned, deported or mistakenly kept for lack of better knowledge. The Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation contributes with effective means to the fact that animal suffering can be reduced or even prevented sustainably.

This animal welfare work is based on four pillars:

1. Competence Centre Animal Shelter: Animal shelters become high-quality transition stations for homeless animals, where animals are kept and promoted in a way that is appropriate for their species and finally transferred to good new places.

2. Neutering campaigns: Braking the animal misery

3. Education and training of specialists: Specialists are given the opportunity to optimise their knowledge and improve animal welfare.

4. Education of the population: love of animals with heart and mind

These four elements form the important basis for sustainable animal welfare projects.

Those animals that are not yet able to benefit from the effects of this reconstruction work and have been born into a world where they are not wanted need the emergency aid of SUST.

Emergency aid as a basis for sustainable animal welfare projects: saving lives of animals

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Swiss Veterinarian training

A projekt of the Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation and Kompanima

Knowledge and skills for animal welfare operations

Neutering feral cats and dogs at home and abroad is an extremely important service for all affected animals and their unborn offspring. Many young veterinarians sign up for animal welfare missions in the hope of being able to work and learn practically on the animal. However, it is questionable if insufficiently trained beginners perform actions on animals in need, which they have not yet learned enough.

A solid basic training prior to an animal protection operation is therefore mandatory and is the subject of this further training. This includes a theoretical part in which the veterinarians learn valuable information about the operation in animal protection. Especially abroad, the external circumstances are often adverse, there is a lack of narcotics, sutures and drugs. The knowledge of alternatives is then decisive.

In the same way, hygiene regulations must be observed despite a lack of materials. Neutering is the most important veterinary activity in the protection of animals abroad. For this purpose, the animals must first be checked manually for pregnancies or possible uterine inflammations. At the same time, however, it is important to assess the entire animal and to initiate any further treatments, such as the application of antiparasitics or a wound toilet for injuries.

We also offer interested veterinarians the opportunity to learn the practical work with veterinarians who are experienced in animal protection. In the context of an open practical course all important skills, in particular also the neutering at dogs and cats, are practiced, so that the trained veterinarians become applicable in the future in animal protection actions at home and abroad.

Since the practical training places are limited, applicants must apply for such a training place.

 

Country:
  • Switzerland
5 Pillars:
  • Education and Training
Swiss Veterinarian training
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