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The Sweet Sanctuary is currently home to 40 animals and growing.

Creating a safe and peaceful refuge for horses and farmed animals in need.

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We believe in kindness and compassion for all animals

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The Sweet Sanctuary is now a registered Canadian Charity!

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Join us in our mission for all animals

Donate farm supplies, medical funds, or help us fill up the hayloft.

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Funds go towards feed our regular animal care expenses, enrichment toys and treats.

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Purchase a printed portrait by Van Tran Photography to support our work.

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Join us in our mission for as little as $2/month. You’ll be first to hear about visitor days!

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Our Mission & Vision

Providing life-long sanctuary to horses and farm animals suffering neglect, abuse, or abandonment.

Together we can create a safe and peaceful refuge for animals in need, showing kindness and compassion for all animals.

A look back at our virtual benefit for the animals in 2020. Tune in for an update from the founders, a virtual tour, and an important update from our Board of Directors.

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“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

Eek! We really need your help with our muddy road

Eek! We really need your help with our muddy road & we’ve come up with a fun way to share our need. Introducing $5 Mudslide Fridays!! Just in time for happy hour. We are asking our sweet friends & fam to send $5 for our first $5 Friday. We are planning to host these through April to support some much needed mud management, drainage & our spring cleaning projects! Each Friday we will focus on an item on our list, so here goes!

1. Starting with the biggest — We have to build a little road to allow easy and safe access to our exterior pastures. In order to do so, we need to scrape away the mud, and bring in various gravel to compact. **No animals go through this area right now**! But they will need to in order to access the big meadow this summer. Our property is huge (89 acres!) and we rely on the tractor to take hay, water, shavings to the various shelters, and we use it for mucking out and driving to the manure pile as well. As you can see, we have driven many muddy trips this spring to the manure pile causing huge ruts. Worse than ever before. A roadway which connects the barns and outer pastures will help the daily operations run more smoothly and safely.

Please help us bring in some loads of gravel this month so we can complete this work and fix our muddy road once and for all! Follow the link in our bio if you can give $5! ❤️🙏

Good morning from the pig barn 😅 We always have

Good morning from the pig barn 😅 We always have quite the audience for morning feed! All our grain is stored in this barn and they watch very closely as we prepare the rest of the meals. Sweet babies 🥰
#friendsnotfood #animalrescue #farmsanctuary #bekindtoallkinds

Hello sweet friends! Professor Snape here ♥️ W

Hello sweet friends! Professor Snape here ♥️ We are getting so many enquires about visiting the animals which is wonderful. Sadly though, we remain closed to public during the ongoing pandemic. We normally offer tour days from mid May to end of October, but we are not sure yet what our new normal will look like as we ensure the safety of both our residents and caretakers. We will keep you all posted on any opportunities, and as promised, our amazing sponsors and monthly donors will be first to visit.

Currently, the Spring melt is on which is keeping us extremely busy as we work on drainage and mud issues. More to come on these big projects throughout April and how you can help! 🙏

🍪 Giveaway!! Our sweet board member @amylongard

🍪 Giveaway!! Our sweet board member @amylongard has purchased a dozen Sweet Sanctuary Cookies for someone out there so we are having a giveaway!! To enter, go follow @sweetsanctuarycookies, make sure you’re following us, and tag someone below who would love some cookies!

🍪 Contest closes Wednesday at 4pm! You must be available to pick up in Almonte or Ottawa (Baseline and Prince of Wales), OR in the delivery zone & Delivery Dave will bring them to you this Thursday! Our cookie master Jill can also make these gluten free for you (and they’re 100% vegan always)!

Why are these cookies so sweet?? Because 100% of sales are donated to the animals! Since this virtual bake sale started one year ago it has raised over $5,000. During a very difficult time to fundraise, this has meant so much to us and all of the animals who call Sweet Sanctuary home!

Thank you friends ♥️

Good morning from sweet little Luigi 🥰♥️

Good morning from sweet little Luigi 🥰♥️

Sunset feeding with Ellen 🥰🥰 Sweet Ellen has

Sunset feeding with Ellen 🥰🥰 Sweet Ellen has been living in the house the past few weeks after having some issues with her roomies. We are not sure what provoked the others, but they were all being mean to the sweetest chicken ever, Ellen. It was brutally cold and we were afraid that maybe Ellen was sick, and that the others knew something we didn’t (as chickens often do), but we are happy to say she is just fine! She moved in with us, had a bath and received the preventative medical care she needed just in case. With the warm weather this week she’s been able to hang out while we start our spring cleanup and visit with everyone outside again 🙏
#bekindtoallkinds #animalrescue #farmsanctuary

🍪 Get your sweet on 🍪 Ottawa pickup was a su

🍪 Get your sweet on 🍪 Ottawa pickup was a success! Thank you for ordering vegan cookies #fortheanimals - our weekly bake sale continues! Thursday delivery/pick up in Almonte or Ottawa. All the details are on our website!

All the sweet goaties had their feet trimmed today

All the sweet goaties had their feet trimmed today! It’s not their favourite activity, but providing regular hoof care is so simple and important for their health and well-being ♥️♥️ They also had treats, don’t worry.

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