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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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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

The machine is leaving which means all our posts a

The machine is leaving which means all our posts are dug in the big meadow! For the last two weeks Steve and Austin (not the goat 😅) worked super hard removing the old fencing, cutting back trees and brush that had grown overtop of the fence lines, cutting the meadow, and most recently dug holes for 200 or so new posts which will arrive today. They also spent two days working in the messy half of pig paradise - removing brush, rocks, and cutting down dangerous trees. They make quite a team! Will introduce you all to Austin soon… maybe an Austin & Austin Powers pic to keep everyone straight? 😂😂 #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #animalrescue #farmsanctuary

Please join us in welcoming this beautiful soul to

Please join us in welcoming this beautiful soul to the Sweet Sanctuary fam ♥️ Meet Katharine!

Katharine joins us this summer through our Canada Summer Jobs grant doing all things animal care. She’s with us full time until the Fall, when she will return to her full time job as a high school teacher — that is of course unless Arnie and I can convince her to stay forever 😅😭 She is the best.

Katharine is incredibly kind and compassionate and we are so grateful to have her here for the animals. She brings years of experience and expertise working with horses, has already won over (the very selective) Mamma Bear, and has improved our daily routine and feedings for our special needs goats. Katharine is thoughtful, thorough, and does an incredible job carrying out every task to help the animals live their very best lives.

Welcome Katharine!!

#fortheanimals #farmsanctuarylife

Austin Powers ♥️😇

Austin Powers ♥️😇

Pics from the week! It’s been so busy + amazing

Pics from the week! It’s been so busy + amazing at the Sweet Sanctuary. Let me fill you in on all we’ve been doing….

🤗 Our summer staff are here! It’s incredible. Steve and I booked off work from our fulltime jobs to get everyone started here. I can’t wait to introduce you to these wonderful people who have joined the team. They’re already making a tremendous impact #fortheanimals

💪🏻 We unloaded 26,250lbs of hay! Some of our amazing volunteers were back helping with this delivery - it’s been a long time without them.

🐷 Charlize and Pippa integrated in with Big Momma and Roxy, so now they spend their days altogether in the grass paddock, and they love it!

🦛 The pigs have turned into baby hippos! Blowing coats everywhere - cutest!

🔨 The team has taken down all the old fencing in our big meadow, so it’s almost ready to put up a safe new 5ft no climb fence. They’re still cutting trees back off the fence lines and cleaning up. Our new meadow will get divided in half for rotational grazing - a dream of mine for the horses!!

💡 @maclecelectrical were here and installed a safe vapour tight led light in the goat barn (no more battery lanterns!), an outdoor light, and an outlet so we can more safely use a fan for Roxy. This power will get extended over for Arnie next.

🐽 The sweet piggies went famous on YouTube! Thanks to the @yoga_with_kassandra and the Pigs fundraiser, a lot of money has been raised for the animals. I’m going to do a separate post on this amazing initiative that has meant soooo much to us.

#animalrescue #farmsanctuary

Introducing: Yoga with Kassandra and the Pigs! A

Introducing: Yoga with Kassandra and the Pigs!

All of the animals are sending a huge THANK YOU to @yoga_with_kassandra for donating her time, talent, and platform to host this virtual yoga practice in the forest with the piggies. If you’ve ever thought about getting into yoga Kassandra is the perfect teacher! We love that she donated her time and talent to help out the animals and their forever home. As much as we know the pigs are forever grateful they’re equally excited to finally be YOUTUBE FAMOUS!! 😅🐷🐽

Enjoy this wonderful class wherever you are today! Not only are participants of the class sending in donations, Kassandra is also donating all the YouTube advertising money from this video. Link in bio ♥️ Please share!

#virtualyoga #fortheanimals #fundraiser #animalrescue #farmsanctuary

Sweet little lady Pippa is always smiling 💖 #an

Sweet little lady Pippa is always smiling 💖 #animalrescue #farmsanctuary #fortheanimals

Happy Father’s Day to all the sweet, compassiona

Happy Father’s Day to all the sweet, compassionate, animal-loving Dads and father figures out there! 💗 A few great dads right here building our goat barn two years ago, building our run-in shelter, and the sanctuary G-Pa you know and love making a video for our virtual benefit last summer with Pablo and Loca girl ♥️🥺

Thank you for always being there for us with your never ending love and support. #sweetfam #fortheanimals #animalrescue #farmsanctuary

It’s a beautiful thing! You may remember Jake wh

It’s a beautiful thing! You may remember Jake who has volunteered for the sanctuary since last spring! He is the reason we have a veggie garden for the animals (and stairs to our hay loft 😅). He built the garden boxes and takes care of anything and everything our veggie garden needs. Jake is the best.

Here is the garden after he got us all organized again this year - swipe to see the before 😳

We will have greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, melons, pumpkins, and more #fortheanimals ♥️♥️

Thank you Jake!!!

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