Painted Rock Animal Farm & Sanctuary

"Dedicated to caring for abused, abandoned and orphaned animals - providing the love and attention they need to heal" Here at Painted Rock Animal Farm & Sanctuary, we are dedicated to caring for abused, abandoned and orphaned animals. We open our home and lives to all kinds of animals - however the majority of the animals in our care are ones that you usually find on a farm, not in a home. Horses, donkeys, goats, sheep, pigs, ducks and the list goes on. 

How we started....

We rescued our first animal in 1997, it was a little kitten that we named Big Man and we knew then that we couldn't stop there.
In 2003 we were living in a small rural community where we lived with our cats and a small pot belly pig named Ophelia. One day when we returned home from work we found a notice stuck to our door from the by-law officer giving us 14 days to get rid of our precious Ophelia. We didn't understand as she had never been a problem, she was like a dog, she lived in the house with us and we had a large back yard where she spend her days trimming the grass. She became somewhat of a celebrity in our small community, all the kids in the neighbourhood loved her and the neighbours would bring their vegetable peels by for her. We took her everywhere with us, to the park, to the grocery store where she'd wait outside the entrance for us and even into the bank where the staff loved to see her. We were devastated that the town was trying to get us to get rid of her...Continue reading...