The Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare (SUST) is therefore calling for a simple but effective gesture on the national holiday: food instead of fireworks.
Those who forgo fireworks and donate pet food instead are helping directly where the need is greatest. While fireworks dissipate in a matter of seconds, a pet food donation fills bowls, relieves the burden on animal shelters, and supports people who, despite financial difficulties, are doing everything they can to provide for their animals.
Every year, SUST supports numerous animal shelters, pet food banks, and animal welfare organizations in Switzerland with many tons of food. This assistance is crucial for many institutions and pet owners: rising costs, large numbers of animals, and limited resources are pushing more and more people and organizations to their limits.
“A food donation is a direct, meaningful and sustainable form of help,” says Susy Utzinger. “It goes where it is urgently needed – to animals whose care would not be a given without support.”
For many domestic, wild, and farm animals, August 1st is not a celebration, but a stressful ordeal. The loud bangs, flashes of light, and the smell of burning can trigger anxiety, flight responses, and injuries. Dogs and cats panic, wild animals are disturbed from their hiding places, and farm animals can injure themselves in barns or pastures.
Therefore, refraining from using fireworks is not only a sign of consideration, but also an active contribution to animal welfare.
SUST invites the public to celebrate the national holiday in a consciously animal-friendly way this year:
Refrain from using fireworks and donate food instead.
Suitable donations include unopened, original-packaged pet food for dogs, cats, and small animals. Every donation helps to relieve the burden on animal shelters and pet food banks and to reliably provide for animals in need.
In this way, a brief bang becomes a lasting contribution: for full bowls, less fear, and genuine animal welfare.
Further information and submission options:
Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation
Tösstalstrasse 13a
8488 Turbenthal
susyutzinger.ch
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The Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare (SUST) was founded in Zurich on September 7, 2000. It is independent, not affiliated with any umbrella organization, and is under federal supervision. Its work rests on four pillars: an animal shelter competence center, spay/neuter campaigns, training and education, and public awareness. The foundation of its work is providing immediate assistance to animals in need, both in Switzerland and abroad, where SUST operates, among other things, seven animal orphanages.
The foundation is financed through donations and bequests and receives no public funds.
The Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare receives no public funding. Every neutering, every food delivery, and every treatment is paid for by people who believe in this work.
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For example: In Egypt, CHF 20 will be used to neuter and provide medical care for a cat.
For example: With CHF 50 you can fill five food bowls for animals in need.
For example: In Romania, CHF 150 will be used to neuter and provide medical care for six cats.
You choose the amount yourself in the next step.
For example: With CHF 10 a month you can fill a food bowl for animals in need every month.
For example: With CHF 25 per month, a cat in Romania will be neutered and given medical care every month.
For example: CHF 50 per month can fund 30 castrations in Egypt in one year.
You choose the monthly amount yourself in the next step, starting from CHF 5.
You can cancel the monthly donation at any time with one month's notice.
Prefer a fee-free donation? Donations can be made to account IBAN CH87 0900 0000 8466 6666 9 (PostFinance), Susy Utzinger Foundation for Animal Welfare, 8488 Turbenthal. The foundation is tax-exempt; donations of CHF 100 or more will be acknowledged with a personal letter.
Beware of wildlife: On the night of Sunday, October 25th, the clocks will change for daylight saving time and be turned back one hour.
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Temperatures are dropping, the days are getting shorter, and people and animals are increasingly out and about at dusk.
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