HEDY LAMARR
Miss Hedy Lamarr is Saint’s beautiful mare, and (rightfully) named after the incredible actress, who also invented the technology that is currently used for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth these days. Sadly she wasn’t given credit or taken seriously due to her beauty, so me naming this stunning mare after her is also a tribute. She takes cookies and lets me stroke her entire face. I am not sure I have ever touched a softer or velvetier coat. And her long bangs which almost touch her nose look as though she spent hours in a salon this morning having them curled to perfection. The BLM is rounding up Hedy’s herd in the Bible Springs Complex in Utah, trying to eliminate hundreds of federally-protected wild horses in order to reduce the competition for grazing domestic livestock.
The BLM permits 16 grazing allotments within the HMAs that make up this complex equating to 3,044 cows and 1,674 sheep. Meanwhile, the BLM only allows between 80-170 wild horses in their federally-designated habitats which are made up of 216,000 acres. The BLM targeted the Blawn Wash HMA for the first two days this week and was only able to find just over 30 horses. On the third day of flying in the HMA, they couldn't find a single horse after flying for 5 hours. The horrors of her herd being extinguished in favor of cows, sheep, and the almighty dollar continue but thank goodness Hedy is safe now. #skydoghedylamarr
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.