Donatello

Meet this handsome fellow, Donatello. He is an older mustang who has had the roughest journey to get here. He was seized by law enforcement as part of a starvation group who were also being bred. And he was gelded in his teens and then went from home to trainer to home. He landed in the hands of two wonderful rescues in Arizona and we were asked to take him last year and said we would this spring. So he just arrived in Oregon thanks to the rescues fundraising to get him to us. This 19-year-old Lander Wyoming mustang has been through so much: five adopters, countless trainers, starvation, seizure, rescues, and finally sanctuary.

He is doing great and is going to join our new small boys herd of Mesteño, Rowdy, Stetson, Jasper, Bobcat, and Donatello being the sixth member. They will spend time together and then move to a huge area on the lower ranch for the summer joining the rest of the boys. We want to make a huge boys herd that we can hopefully keep there year-round so they have more space and freedom together. It’s a really cool project that’s working out well. #skydogdonatello

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.