Team

Elfes World up close - our home for rescued souls

Elisabeth Feigl - Elfe and her team

Elisabeth Feigl (“Elfe”) has been there for the animals around the clock, seven days a week for over 20 years and loves each one like her own child. She knows each one inside out and, of course, their names, origins, character and special features of all 490 dogs. Over the years, she has rescued hundreds of dogs half-dead from the streets and lovingly nursed them back to health, some of them in her bedroom.

Between 60 and 100 dogs in need of care always live at her house. These are the animals that, for various reasons, cannot live in the enclosures on land or are with her temporarily until they can be integrated into an enclosure on land. She has no helpers at the house and does all the work, including the daily cleaning, on her own.

The most important thing for Elisabeth has always been to have a close relationship with each animal and to be able to spend as much time as possible with the dogs. This enables her to recognize any illnesses or intolerances immediately and act accordingly. This is the only way to ensure that all animals receive the best possible care. Most of the animals that live with Elfe live to a very old age.

There are always as many dogs sleeping in Elfe's bed as space allows. She has her constant canine companions with her on every car journey. You will never meet Elfe without dogs around her, she would simply feel incomplete without them. Before the current team of helpers started working in the countryside, she looked after the animals at both locations, sometimes alone or with just one part-time employee. So she was constantly shuttling back and forth to make sure that everyone had everything they needed. For one person alone, this is a huge effort and takes a lot of strength and nerves. But the love for the animals and the happiness of seeing them healthy and happy and knowing that they are safe makes up for these efforts and gives her strength and drive every day.

Elfe spends her entire life caring for the animals and everything that goes with it. This leaves no time for social contacts or events, vacations or free weekends, because the animals need her every day - year in, year out. Elfe is happy with this life. Seeing her animals healthy and happy and being able to help new emergencies and not having to look away is her greatest happiness. Seeing the many animals happy in their new homes in Europe and the USA is her greatest reward. Her love and care for the animals has shaped her whole life.

She is very grateful for what she has been able to achieve for the animals over the years through hard work and dedication, but above all through the support and help of dear helpers, sponsors and donors. She has been able to alleviate great suffering and make many animals happy that would not be alive without her efforts.

The Heart of Elfes World - Our team

The Team

A total of four helpers work at the house and nine in the countryside, including a mechanic, to ensure the well-being of the animalsThe helpers are responsible for their respective enclosures, which they clean and whose animals they look after, care for and give attention to. All the helpers love the dogs and enjoy spending time with them. We are very lucky with our helpers, they are very rarely ill or unreliable. Of course, a foreman always has to keep an eye on them, guide them and supervise their work.

Their work focuses on keeping the enclosures clean and checking the safety of the enclosures and within the packs, checking each animal daily for physical/health abnormalities, observing the behavior of the animals within the packs and acting in an emergency.

We are very grateful to have found such a good team and hope they will stay with us for a very long time!

The Admin-Team

Britta Hwass-Neyrat and Ulla Elsenheimer provide us with administrative support. They look after the Facebook / Instagram page and groups, are the contact persons for sponsors and adopters and all those who would like to become one.

They answer inquiries, look after this page, report on us, keep launching new fundraising campaigns, organize the adoptions and trips of the lucky furry friends and provide us with help and advice. They do all this on a voluntary basis in their free time.

Thank you very much for your huge commitment and loving dedication, without you Elfe would be helpless, because due to the intensive care of the many animals she hardly has time to sit at the PC.

Our Christine Sudmann

Without our dear Christine and her husband Detlef, our dogs would not be able to travel to their homes. Christine takes the dogs into her home in Bangkok and then presents them at the quarantine office at the airport 1-2 days before departure so that they can receive their final export papers. She cares for the dogs with so much love and dedication, she makes sure they have everything they need and masters the administrative challenges brilliantly. On the day of departure, she takes the dogs to the airport, checks them in and makes sure that everything runs smoothly. Without Christine, who has taken over this task from our dear Britta, all the dogs would not have been able to travel to their homes in the last years. We can rely on her 100% and know that our dogs are in the best hands.

She also assists us time and again with medical emergencies that require treatment in Bangkok. Here, too, she usually accommodates them, takes care of the doctor's appointments and looks after our patients. Christine and Detlef have even taken in our dear Kelsey, who unfortunately has an inoperable tumor in her mouth, so that she can spend her last months protected, in peace and with the necessary care, attention and medical treatment. Her husband Detlef supports her significantly.

Many thanks to both of you for your great love for the animals and your boundless commitment.