Edible Ottawa

Home Sweet Home

• Photo by Caleb Ficner

  Sarah Hogg and Steven Jorens pose with Austin Powers, who was rescued from a dairy farm when he was just a day old.

• Finian was saved from going to slaughter by Sweet Sanctuary after years of neglect, starvation and abuse. The scars that cover his legs show that he was subjected to pin-firing, an extremely painful and ineffective "treatment" of lameness.

• Now at home at Sweet Sanctuary, Mama Bear, right, sports a permanent grin. She'll never have to worry about delivering piglets again.

• Sarah Hogg (left) and her husband Steven Jorens (right) walk Mini Wheat, a miniature horse, Austin Powers, in front, and Finian, the horse, on their farm, Sweet Sanctuary Animal Rescue — a safe space dedicated to providing a forever home for animals in need.