Blaze

Blaze

Blaze was captured by the BLM off Fish Creek HMA in September 2019. He and his family were well known and loved by Laura Leigh of Wild Horse Education. She had followed them for years and we said yes to Blaze’s family being the one we would take in 2020. Sadly when we took Elsa and the twins we were subjected to an insane amount of online harassment, abuse, and bullying and my health suffered to the point I didn’t manage to adopt the family before they were all shipped to other facilities across the West. Blaze was slated to be on a truck for Long Term Holding where he would never be seen again but a kind person at the BLM agreed to sort him out of the pen and we purchased him Sale Authority for $25 and brought him home. We didn’t stop there and managed to find one of his three mares and bring her back to him all the way from BLM Idaho. They are now reunited and back together and Hannah looks to have a baby on board and we may well see a little Blaze born in the Spring. These families are so hard to reunite and we will continue to fight for them and to keep them together and promote their bonds and families as a huge part of our mission. Blaze is now settled and happy at Skydog and is one of our most glorious mustangs. #skydogblaze

American Mustangs and 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 2025 (H.R.1661 in the House and S.775 in the Senate). This bill would amend the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018. Commonly known as the “Farm Bill”, this omnibus federal law includes several important provisions for animals. Among them, the Cat and Dog Meat Trade Prohibition Act, which makes it illegal to slaughter, transport, possess, purchase, sell, or donate dogs and cats, or their parts, for human consumption. This SAFE Act would extend the prohibition to equines. Specifically, prohibiting a person from knowingly slaughtering an American equine for human consumption; or shipping, transporting, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donating an American equine to be slaughtered for human consumption. 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.

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.

You can also tell your Rep and Senators that you want these bills from the previous Congress introduced again this session:

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.