montana

Montana is a stunning Beatty’s Butte mustang who was adopted by an amazing trainer to be an ambassador for mustangs in parades and shows. The lady spent years trying to gentle Montana but he wasn’t having any of it. Every bit of progress made one day was gone the next. He just kept reverting back to a wild horse and none of the training stuck. Eventually after seven years of getting nowhere she reached out to us and told us this was just a horse who wanted to stay wild.

When Montana arrived with us we released him straight out into a huge pasture with some other boys. He leaped out of the trailer and took off running. It was so beautiful to watch this horse reclaim what he had been robbed of. He galloped for miles into the distance before circling back and giving us this amazing look you see above. He stood and stared and actually he brought tears to my eyes and others as we saw in him such gratitude it took our breaths away. This is a wild horse. This is Montana. Wild and free forever.

Mustangs & Burros Need Your Help

In addition to supporting our work by donating, becoming a patron on Patreon, or sponsoring a Skydog, there are several important pieces of legislation to protect American equines currently moving through Congress. It only takes a few minutes to contact your Rep and Senators and urge them to support these bills:

Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act of 2023 (H.R. 3475 in the House / S.2307 in the Senate). This bill will shut down the slaughter pipeline that sends some 20,000 American horses and donkeys to savagely monstrous deaths in foreign slaughterhouses every year.

The Wild Horse & Burro Protection Act of 2023 (H. R. 3656) This bill will prohibit the use of helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft in the management of wild mustangs and burros on public lands, and require a report on humane alternatives to current management practices.

Ejiao Act of 2023 (H.R. 6021). To ​​ban the sale or transportation of ejiao, a gelatin made from boiling donkey skins, or products containing ejiao in interstate or foreign commerce, which brutally kills millions of donkeys primarily for beauty products and Chinese medicine.

You can Contact Members of Congress by calling the Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121‬, submitting contact forms on their individual websites, or sending one email to all three simultaneously at www.democracy.io

See our How to Help menu for other actions to ban zebra hunting at US canned hunt ranches, stop production of Premarin & other PMU drugs, and defund the Adoption Incentive Program.