Hunter
Hunter - named for our wonderful board member Rachel Hunter - is beautiful and still very wild. She was one of the first 20 mustangs saved by Skydog as an official sanctuary in 2016.
Rounded up from Fox Hog HMA in California, she ended up in a Louisiana kill pen at the age of 5. Skinny, confused, and terrified, she wore a halter made of cheap, yellow bailing twine at odds with her remarkable beauty. This dappled buckskin has knee-high white socks, a star, a snip. and eyes the shade of the palest gold.
Hunter did a few laps before committing to a herd. She started off as one of Buddy’s mares, then joined Champ’s expanding band. After a fling with Bear, she settled into the inner circle of mares loyal and true to Phoenix, where she seems to be very content today.
Hunter currently has a sponsor
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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 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.