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Ghost was a family reunion two years in the making and started with a photograph we saw on the American Wild Horse Campaign of Phoenix leaping out of the trap site and Ghost looking up at him. We went to the corrals a couple of days later and were able to find Phoenix, and in another pen, Ghost standing in a sea of horses looking lost. We tried to adopt the whole family but were denied as the stallion Phoenix was to be released back to the wild which we were happy about. I would go regularly to the corrals and visit with Phoenix but I never saw Ghost again after the first day and assumed she had been adopted. After a year I found out that the stallions were no longer to be released and we applied to adopt Phoenix to give him back the freedom he so desperately wanted the day of his capture.

To my amazement, almost two years after the roundup I spotted Ghost on the Internet Adoption and immediately bid on her to reunite her with Phoenix. We won her and traveled to the corrals to get her. Sadly she smashed her face loading into the trailer too fast and we had to wait a few more weeks for her to heal before we finally could reunite her with her Phoenix. We named her Ghost as she truly did appear like a Ghost out of nowhere when we had all but given up hope on her. We are so thrilled and happy that she is back with her family and that they get to live out their lives together now after all they went through. #skydogghost

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.