📌 Section: Welfare Violations & Farm Conditions Reports

🐣 Katie Pasitney Appeals for Care of Ostriches — “They Need Bedding, Food & Water”

Source: Katie Pasitney (Universal Ostrich Farm)
Date: Mid-October 2025 (approx.)
Location: Universal Ostrich Farm, Edgewood, B.C.
Recorded By: On-site live video (likely TikTok or Facebook Live)

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Transcript (cleaned and preserved):

“Hi, Katie with Universal Ostrich Farm.

When we have an intern order, our animals are not supposed to be hurt or touched.
You’re supposed to be caring for these animals as we would — and we’re having a problem with that, Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

Please — these animals need bedding, food, and water.

We would never push our animals out of these front pens, because back where they are pushing them, they don’t have shelter or water.

And here they are, tying up fences and locking these ones in this pen — and now I’m seeing that maybe you’re doing that just because you don’t want to deal with this front corner.

I hope that’s why you’re doing it — because you’re feeding them over there.

Twenty-six five-gallon buckets. Let’s remember that, Canadian Food Inspection Agency — they get 26 five-gallon buckets, especially with colder weather coming.

They need more grain. They need their alfalfa — more than half of their diet — and these animals are not to be neglected.

… That’s why it’s so funny — they love to peck. They peck an average of 4,000 times a day.
Their senses — they feel, they taste, they stay safe.

It’s something that we miss — a lot. A lot.”

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Context Summary:
• Katie records a direct appeal to the CFIA, emphasizing animal care standards during federal control of the property.
• Highlights lack of bedding, food, water, and shelter for ostriches being contained or moved by CFIA personnel.
• Notes the intern order should require humane handling and supervision — not neglect or deprivation.
• References specific feeding requirements (26 five-gallon buckets of grain and alfalfa) and the ostriches’ natural behaviors (pecking).
• Emotionally charged — demonstrates distress and advocacy for animal welfare amid the standoff.

Themes:
Animal neglect, CFIA accountability, humane treatment, farmer ethics, winter conditions, compassion, eyewitness testimony.