DOLLAR
Sometimes a horse gets noticed by us because of the incredible amount of times their post and photograph standing in a killpen gets posted. As it was with Dollar. He had just been sent to our message box over and over again. I was sure someone would rescue him as he was apparently broke to ride and was a handsome looking boy who seemed healthy. Eventually I got a message from someone and just couldn't say no. I rang the feedlot and was told he would ship that weekend for sure unless he was paid for an picked up. Jon set off to go get him and bring him home. Dollar just didn't deserve to be there and he did deserve to live out a long and happy life. We had to help him.
Dollar now runs in the boys herd on 1500 acres of our ranch in Oregon. He is best friends with Braveheart and Ripley and they are quite the sight running the hills during the snowy winters x
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.