About
us:
Animals are our passion! With a lot of heart and expertise – MovingAnimals offers a wide range of services for pet relocations, from simple flight bookings to complex door-to-door transportation. Get in touch with us! We will be happy to advise you on the necessary documents, vaccinations and permits. And one thing is clear: the safety of the animals entrusted to us is our top priority. So you as the owner can rest assured. Our team has the experience, expertise, contacts and relationships with authorities, airlines, agents, and partners worldwide, veterinarians as well as animal shelters and transit stations at airports, needed to make your beloved pet’s journey to the new location as pleasant and smooth as possible. We ARE Moving Animals.
Marcel Brozius
When growing up, Marcel always knew he’d want to work with animals. At first, his interests for the world, other cultures and languages brought him to the freight forwarding business. Soon after transport the first dog, he knew that this was the perfect match – a dream job!
In 2004, Marcel completed his IATA LAR (Live Animal Regulations) course and has been shipping animals around the globe ever since.
From 2010 to 2013 Marcel has served on IPATA’s board of directors and was the first ever regional director for Europe. He is currently also serving on the ethics & country profile committees since then.
Karin Gurtner
Growing up in the peaceful and magnificent Bernese Oberland, Karin was surrounded by various animals since her early childhood. Rabbits, cats, dogs, tortoises and horses – all accompanied Karin daily and were looked after and cared for with full dedication. This passion, coupled with a keen interest in aviation, led her by a happy coincidence to the Zurich Airport in 2016. After several years in the industry it is clear for Karin: This is her dream job!
Her faithful companion Parson Russell Terrier Jamie is always at her side and keeps everyone in the office on the go. Karin knows first-hand what it means to entrust a beloved pet into the hands of a stranger.
Tamara Hänger
Tamara has been growing up with different animals since she was little. From turtles, rabbits, birds, parrots and currently snakes, Tamara has always taken every animal into her heart.
Tamara has been working at the Zurich airport since 2015 and has always had a big interest in its atmosphere and enthusiasm for air freight specifically. In May 2019 Tamara started working for Moving Animals and through her previous experience as a handling agent for various airlines she has already gained much experience. Tamara enjoys working with the four-legged friends in air freight and finds her work versatile, exotic and very interesting.
Nicole Serafino
Nicole comes from the shipping business, where she gained many years of experience in the air freight department in particular. The shipping world at the airport Zurich is a small world and Nicole was asked if she had any interest at joining the venture. She loves nature and wildlife and always wanted to share this with her two children.
She works at the reception and in accounting, Nicole is therefore often our first contact person for our customers be them two or four legged.
Marc Aichholz
As far back in time as Marc can recall, he loved the companionship of the many pets present on his parents beautiful Black Forest stables.
Goats, hens, ducks and fishes also graced the estate but cats and dogs were his favorite accomplices.
Professionally Marc chose the logistic field where over the years he specialized into the international road freight and Swiss customs processes.
But Marc was always fascinated by the airport/ aeronautical atmosphere so it was just natural for him to merge two of his passions, animals and logistic, and join the Moving Animals team.
Sébastien Baumann-Hopfner
As far as Sébastien can remember, he has always lived in the company of animals of all sorts, mainly rescues that his parents adopted from cats, ducks, horses to injured prey birds that he helped nurture back to health at his dad’s family aviary.
With a background in lyric arts and haute couture perfumery, he eventually moved in 2005 from Northern America to Zurich, Switzerland where he enjoys life with his dogs Appia & Niko and four cats Luna, Mumsli, Lucy & Lulu, all rescues.
His experience with animals goes back to his childhood and in animal shipping since 2008.
Karin Oprach
From young, Karin has shared her life with animals, cats, dogs, hamsters, rabbits, chinchillas… Now an adult, Karin has 5 cats of her own, all rescued from shelters.
Since 2009, Karin offers pet-sitting services in Geneva among other services as part of her concierge business. In 2020, she started collaborating with Moving Animals, as their person on the ground on the French speaking side of Switzerland. Since then, she is often the first human that pets travelling with Moving Animals to Geneva meet and the last one when they relocate out of Switzerland.
Karin loves working in animal shipping and taking loving care of the pets our clients entrust us with.
Marcel Brozius
When growing up, Marcel always knew he’d want to work with animals. At first, his interests for the world, other cultures and languages brought him to the freight forwarding business. Soon after transport the first dog, he knew that this was the perfect match – a dream job!
In 2004, Marcel completed his IATA LAR (Live Animal Regulations) course and has been shipping animals around the globe ever since.
From 2010 to 2013 Marcel has served on IPATA’s board of directors and was the first ever regional director for Europe. He is currently also serving on the ethics & country profile committees since then.
Karin Gurtner
Growing up in the peaceful and magnificent Bernese Oberland, Karin was surrounded by various animals since her early childhood. Rabbits, cats, dogs, tortoises and horses – all accompanied Karin daily and were looked after and cared for with full dedication. This passion, coupled with a keen interest in aviation, led her by a happy coincidence to the Zurich Airport in 2016. After several years in the industry it is clear for Karin: This is her dream job!
Her faithful companion Parson Russell Terrier Jamie is always at her side and keeps everyone in the office on the go. Karin knows first-hand what it means to entrust a beloved pet into the hands of a stranger.
Tamara Hänger
Tamara has been growing up with different animals since she was little. From turtles, rabbits, birds, parrots and currently snakes, Tamara has always taken every animal into her heart.
Tamara has been working at the Zurich airport since 2015 and has always had a big interest in its atmosphere and enthusiasm for air freight specifically. In May 2019 Tamara started working for Moving Animals and through her previous experience as a handling agent for various airlines she has already gained much experience. Tamara enjoys working with the four-legged friends in air freight and finds her work versatile, exotic and very interesting.
Nicole Serafino
Nicole comes from the shipping business, where she gained many years of experience in the air freight department in particular. The shipping world at the airport Zurich is a small world and Nicole was asked if she had any interest at joining the venture. She loves nature and wildlife and always wanted to share this with her two children.
She works at the reception and in accounting, Nicole is therefore often our first contact person for our customers be them two or four legged.
Marc Aichholz
As far back in time as Marc can recall, he loved the companionship of the many pets present on his parents beautiful Black Forest stables.
Goats, hens, ducks and fishes also graced the estate but cats and dogs were his favorite accomplices.
Professionally Marc chose the logistic field where over the years he specialized into the international road freight and Swiss customs processes.
But Marc was always fascinated by the airport/ aeronautical atmosphere so it was just natural for him to merge two of his passions, animals and logistic, and join the Moving Animals team.
Sébastien Baumann-Hopfner
As far as Sébastien can remember, he has always lived in the company of animals of all sorts, mainly rescues that his parents adopted from cats, ducks, horses to injured prey birds that he helped nurture back to health at his dad’s family aviary.
With a background in lyric arts and haute couture perfumery, he eventually moved in 2005 from Northern America to Zurich, Switzerland where he enjoys life with his dogs Appia & Niko and four cats Luna, Mumsli, Lucy & Lulu, all rescues.
His experience with animals goes back to his childhood and in animal shipping since 2008.
Karin Oprach
From young, Karin has shared her life with animals, cats, dogs, hamsters, rabbits, chinchillas… Now an adult, Karin has 5 cats of her own, all rescued from shelters.
Since 2009, Karin offers pet-sitting services in Geneva among other services as part of her concierge business. In 2020, she started collaborating with Moving Animals, as their person on the ground on the French speaking side of Switzerland. Since then, she is often the first human that pets travelling with Moving Animals to Geneva meet and the last one when they relocate out of Switzerland.
Karin loves working in animal shipping and taking loving care of the pets our clients entrust us with.