CRICKET

Cricket is a black mare and she’s from Paisley Desert. She went through a lot being rounded up from the wild, adopted out and then was seized by the BLM as her adopter was totally unsuitable to take care of her. She’s traumatized and as they put it: “her mind is blown”. If you have ever seen a wild horse with that description you know exactly what it looks like. When we met her on the last trip to the BLM to pick up a group of trainer relinquishment geldings, we knew we had to come back for her. We were worried she was going to hurt herself because she was so upset in the chute. Loading was scary, but now there is nothing but future good days for her. #skydogcricket

Cricket at the BLM corrals and now she is living wild with a herd of other mares on 1800 acres of incredible land. She has landed exactly where she is meant to be.

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 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.