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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.

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Watch out when mowing the lawn!

July 2024

Time and again, hedgehogs sleeping under hedges or bushes are mutilated or even killed by mowing equipment such as string mowers. Hedgehogs do not react to the noise of mowing equipment by fleeing, but instead curl up even more in the face of danger.
Lawn robots that work unattended also pose a danger to hedgehogs that roam the garden sniffing around at dusk or at night. They are usually hit in the face by the lawn robots and seriously injured.

The infopic shows you what you can watch out for and how you can help hedgehogs:
- Mow tall grass with care.
- Do not let the robot lawn mower run at dusk or at night.
   Small hedgehogs sometimes forage during the day.
- Do not leave robotic lawn mowers running around unattended and avoid robotic lawn mowers with
   with fixed blades:
   https://igelzentrum.ch/images/Doc/rasenroboter-im-test.pdf

- Check potential hiding places with a leaf rake before mowing, because
   hedgehogs can hardly be spotted with the naked eye in their sleeping places!
- Avoid clearing under shrubs and hedges. Many garden inhabitants
   are happy to have a natural garden.
- And hedgehogs are also happy to have a water bowl in the garden in hot weather
   (no milk) so you give hedgehogs - and other animals - the opportunity
   to get vital fluids.

You can also learn lots of surprising things in our webinar for hire on:
www.susyutzinger.ch/Shop

 
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Watch out when mowing the lawn!
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