Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke is an amazing south steens boy at Skydog Oregon. We took him from an owner who didn’t want him anymore and was going to get rid of him. So we said yes as he’s too beautiful a boy to be thrown away or killed and we have thanked our lucky stars every day since that we did. He’s incredible. He is the son of Honor, who was a beautiful foundation stallion out on South Steens. This beautiful boy started looking at freedom from the barn the second he arrived. So we didn’t hesitate in turning him straight out to his new space and herd. He was just breathtaking as he ran around introducing himself to all the new horses, holding his own, being the wild horse he was born to be and is now forever. What a glorious sight to watch this boy run and just be and it’s every reason we fight for them embodied in one horse. It would be wonderful if someone sponsored him and saw the beauty in him we see daily now #skydoggunsmoke
Before with his previous adopters and now wild and free again in Skydog Oregon.
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.