We are a charity fighting for the rescue and defence of all animals and against the abuses of vivisection and cruelty against animals.

Who are we?

Help Animals .........
Help Animals .........
Help Animals .........
Help Animals .........

A registered charity.
A shelter which has celebrated twenty years of existence!
A shelter unlike any other!
A “Welcoming Home” where all cats and dogs are welcome whatever their age or race!

 

 

First aim: Shelter

Help Animals was founded to take in all lost and found dogs and cats and to give them the chance of finding a new family. Young or old, beautiful or less so, purebred or not, all without exception get with us the chance of finding happiness again.
This is “OUR IDEOLOGY”!
We will never claim the right to decide over their life or death. With this attitude, we are only implementing the “CHARTER OF ANIMAL RIGHTS”…
All animals are equal and have a right to life…

Second aim: Fighting against vivisection

Our second aim is to fight against the abuses of vivisection!
Since too long, vivisection is used and abused “in the name of medical progress”!
We are fervently opposed to such practises and proclaim this “loud and clear”.
There is still too much abuse because the regulations for universities are not strict enough nor sufficiently checked.
Together with other animal welfare organisations and with the help of magistrates, we are fighting to obtain from the government laws that would very severely control “lab experiments”.
With - and thanks to - the progress of information technology, we advocate and support (financially) so-called methods of substitution in order to spare millions of animals a pointless death.
After all these years of fighting, we have obtained (all organisations together) the prohibition of the sale of dogs and cats on public markets.
This is a beginning; we need to see further and protect all other so-called “domestic” animals such as exotic birds, guinea pigs, hamsters, dwarf rabbits, aquatic or land turtles, chicks (given away for free at Easter-time with the purchase of 12 eggs and destined to die)!
Not to mention all the animals such as monkeys, chinchillas, kangaroos etc. who are in principle protected by the “WASHINGTON CONVENTION”.

Third aim: The Social Aspect

Our third aim is a social one in the sense that we listen to elderly people, who are often alone and who wish to have at their side a little companion who is easy, friendly and who will pleasantly share part of the road with them.
We therefore aim to take in animals who are sometimes older, but who will be perfectly adapted to this type of person.
Inversely, for those people who unfortunately need to enter an old-age home which doesn’t allow animals, we place their little companions with another elderly person.
In view of the current economic crisis, we help people who no longer have the means to look after their favourite animal.

Fourth aim: Education

Our fourth, but not least, aim is to be EDUCATIONAL!
If we want a lot of things to change in the future, we need first of all to educate our children!
To educate our children to respect LIFE whatever form it takes!
Like the newborn animal, the child is pure and innocent! The child naturally goes towards the animal because he is one himself!
Does he not walk “on all fours” like the dog or cat of the house?
It is us, the grown-ups, who erect barriers between them!
Young children are naturally good and generous towards animals, if we only let them!
We happily welcome schools and explain to the children why certain animals are abandoned and find themselves behind bars.
We try to make them aware that an animal is a living being just like them, which has feelings, but which unlike a child does not have the intelligence to understand why it has been abandoned!

Why and how do we exist?

Help Animals was founded in early 1981 to contribute to animal welfare. Non-subsidised, neither by the municipality (“commune”), nor by the province, we only subsist thanks to the membership fees from our members and to donations from people who love animals.
We do have the benefit however of a team of workers which the state is putting at our disposal and for whom our financial contribution is minimal.
Thanks to this, we are able to maintain an optimum level of hygiene and cleanliness throughout the entire shelter.
We are lucky to have a group of faithful volunteers, some of whom take the dogs for walks and look after our cats; other help out with the administrative tasks and thereby alleviate the workload of our employees. The latter are therefore able to welcome our visitors and future adopters in a friendly and unhurried manner.
A few devoted vets who are enthusiastic and concerned by animal welfare welcome and look after of our little guests as soon as they arrive at the shelter (medical care, vaccinations, sterilisation and tattooing having now finally become compulsory!)
As the costs both for maintaining and feeding all our animals and for running the shelter (gas, electricity, heating, etc…) have become very high, we organise outside events such as fairs, exhibitions…with a view to selling various items that will generate some much-needed cash.