A last stand to try and save 400 ostriches from an ordered cull is unfolding along a dusty gravel road near the tiny community of Edgewood in southeastern British Columbia.

Yellow tape has been strung around the ostriches’ pen, where the co-owner of the farm and her daughter, Katie Pasitney, are staying put after police and Canadian Food Inspection Agency staff told them they must leave Monday ahead of the cull.

Pasitney said she doesn’t know what will happen over the next 24 hours as their lawyer files paperwork in an attempt to have their case heard by the Supreme Court of Canada.

“Watching my Mom today fall to her knees multiple times thinking she’s going to lose everything has been probably one of the hardest days of her life, and mine too, because you just don’t understand. It’s ha

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