colorado
Colorado is a 23-year-old mustang mare from Little Book Cliffs, Colorado. She is our second Colorado mustang after Rain. When we first saw this mare we immediately wanted to help her. As a senior girl with very little chance of being adopted, she needed a soft landing.
Mustangs are designed to move long distances on a diet that is not too high in sugar. We could tell when we saw Colorado that she had probably been turned out on grass for years without any care. She was horribly overweight with a lot of fat on her neck and back. Her feet were in urgent need of help before she foundered. Obesity like this in horses at a later age leads to all kinds of problems. We wanted to give her the care and life she needs.
Since our hauler was coming to pick up Colorado, we had room to also take Scout and Angel as well. She was the lifeline to these two little ones. She has blossomed and transformed as much as any horse we have taken. Covering so much land and eating the right food has probably added ten years to her life. She has formed a close and beautiful bond with Copper Penny and they are always together.
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.