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. Auntie Cheyenne is always there to back her up.

Frost is doing well. He has a gentle, patient, loving mother and stays right by her side, as foals do. He had no trouble latching on to take in the colostrum so vital for a strong start in life. 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 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), but we usually call him Frosty.

Auntie Cheyenne is attentive. If Frost is distracted while his mother moves away, Cheyenne makes sure he catches up with her. Across the fence, two matronly mares, Violet and Rosa, doted upon him. Violet was ready to charge at anyone or anything that might pose a danger, while Rosa, who is blind, sang the sweetest lullabies.

When Frost was big enough, we moved him with his mom and auntie to the baby pen. Cheyenne raced through the crowed to announce the arrival of the newcomers. Both Snow and Cheyenne are protective of Frost and he follows their lead, but we can see that he longs for connection with the little ones who will soon be is best buddies and playmates. Marcie Marshmallow, Forest, Shasta, and Blossom are ready and 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 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.

Bills from the previous 118th Congress that we hope will be introduced again this 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.