Ember

Ember is the most incredible story for me. We had adopted Goliath a couple of years earlier and reunited him with his lead mare Red Lady and they had their foal Bodhi and were living out on a thousand acres. I got an email from a wonderful lady in Colorado who had adopted a mustang mare from the BLM corrals in Wyoming. She had trained countless mustangs for makeovers and for private people but she told me in the email that this mare was different. That she was never present and always looking into the distance as if searching for her herd. Then one day she was sent a video of Goliath and Red Lady reuniting and there at 3 minutes in she saw her horse. She emailed me asking if I would consider taking another member of Goliath’s family. I was shocked as I thought we had searched every lead of every horse we knew in his family but I had never noticed this second red curly girl. And we said YES. Ember travelled to us with her trainer and we all watched as she ran back to her family and she has never left their side. We believe she is Goliath and Red Lady’s daughter and it is incredible to have her at Skydog. We love to reunite families and will keep doing that as long as we are able. To see the bonds these horses form is beautiful and we are so proud to have helped others reunite family members of the mustang they adopted and encourage others to do the same.

Mustangs & 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.