A little treat makes life sweeter at Star’s Piggly Wiggly’s Sanctuary.

Forty-one pigs call the Summerland sanctuary home, which is a labour of love for founder Faith Affleck and the volunteers who care for the unwanted and abandoned pigs, as well as a few foster pigs.

“All animals need somewhere to go,” said Affleck. “Pigs are like kids, they want attention, they want everything from you, they are all very social, and they love to learn.”

Affleck regularly relies on grants and donations from supporters, and a donation from the Eric M. Margolis Family Foundation has funded their need for a new sick bay.

“I don’t have a barn, so I have been using my garage as a sick bay, but now we have a permanent resident in there, and if I get a sick pig, I don’t want to put him in there,” said Afflec

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