captain jack sparrow

Our wonderful Jack Sparrow was part of a group of five babies, who were left at a kill pen in Louisiana after a fake rescue fundraised for them and then left them there. We stepped in and with the incredible help of Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue, we bailed them and brought them to Colorado to our hauler Carla for quarantine before they headed to Lifesavers for training and adoption. While there poor Jack’s eye started to look terrible and we knew he must have a corneal ulcer that had either ruptured or melted. He needed vet attention but was unhandled and wild. Carla incredibly managed to gentle him enough for a vet visit and then we were then told he needed immediate surgery to remove the eye. Well, our wild boy Jack Sparrow must have somehow known we were trying to help as he went calmly and perfectly into surgery and had his eye removed without any fuss.

He recovered with Carla enough to travel and then was brought straight to Bend Equine Hospital near us for further treatment as there still was an infection in the incisions site. He stayed there for another week and then came to us and has continued his recovery and is doing amazing and healing fast. He just had his final sutures out and he is ready to join a herd in a couple of days. We may start him with Blue Moon and Rosa as they are both blind and will be good companions for him as he gets ready to join a different herd and get back to being a wild horse xxx. #skydogjacksparrow

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.