Frost

In the wee hours of August 3, 2024, Snow safely delivered her baby boy. He’s a beautiful, healthy little colt with long legs and a two-toned tail. As foals do, he stays right by his mama’s side. Snow has every reason to be protective and we completely respect that. He’s doing well and she is a gentle, patient, loving mother. He had no trouble latching on to take in the colostrum so vital for a strong start in life. He stays right by his mama’s side, as foals do. It’s amazing to see how nature has designed these prey animals to be ready to stand and run shortly after birth, if necessary. Frosty, however, will never need to run for any reason other than play and the pure joy of being a mustang. He will never know the cruelty that his mother and her friends, Cheyenne and Sierra, suffered in the hands of bad people.

He was born in the heat of the summer and wildfire season, but only a wintry theme would do for naming the son of Snow. The top suggestions on Patreon were Flurry and Frost (for Jack Frost). We’ll see if it settles on Frost or Frosty.

Auntie Cheyenne is attentive and right there to back up Snow the second she needs it. If Frost gets distracted while his mother moves away, Cheyenne makes sure he catches up. Across the fence, two matronly mares, Violet and Rosa, are doting upon him. Violet is ready to charge at anyone or anything that might pose a danger, while Rosa, who is blind, sings the sweetest lullabies with the voice of an equine angel.

Before long, he will meet the other youngsters born at Skydog. We never breed, but we do rescue mares and jennies who are pregnant (often bred by horrible owners to add weight to their meat price). Marcie Marshmallow, Forest, Shasta, and Blossom are in the baby pen waiting to show Frost how to stretch those long legs in games of tag.

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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.