gracie
Gracie was Maestro’s lead mare on the range. She ran wild and free with him for years and Maestro had very few other mares so she was his one true love. She was adopted out months before Maestro was put on the Internet Adoption and when we were asked to take him by another rescue we never had any hope that his lead mare would come to us and back to him. Then one day we got an email from a lady who had adopted Gracie, and now had her and their last son together named Maestro’s Legacy. She now had title of the mare and asked us to take her to reunite the family.
We didn’t hesitate. We had to wait until winter was over to transport her but she arrived and from that day on Maestro has transformed into a different horse. He had always been shy and very wary of coming near humans. He would hide in the trees when we came with food and you barely saw a photo of him if he could go away he would. So when Gracie came back his head was high and he hasn’t stopped being happy since then. They spend their days grazing and Gracie is quite probably Goliath’s daughter as she looks so much like his black mare who disappeared before the roundup. They are the second royal family of Skydog and Gracie gets a little curly in the winter thanks to her dad. We shall DNA test them in the spring to see if they are father and daughter. #skydoggracie
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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.