JALAPEñO
Jalapeño was dumped at auction in California and we had no intention of taking another mustang. But we heard that he wasn't titled and wasn't going to be able to run through auction as it is illegal to sell an untitled mustang. Luckily we were in contact with the BLM and they let us take possession of him while we sorted out why he didn't have title. Usually they are immediately returned to the BLM but we were allowed to decide whether to keep him and have title assigned to us or to return him to Ridgecrest BLM. He was super nervous and unsettled being in a new environment and is an older mustang so we decided to keep him.
Jalapeño won our hearts right away with his escape antics as he didn't realize that he had won the mustang lottery by landing with us in Malibu, but he has now settled down into the best citizen and happy resident we have ever had. He is a charmer that's for sure and we have already taken him for a little test ride only to find out he has some lameness issues on his front legs which is probably why he was dumped. We don’t mind at all and he is now happy living out with the boys x
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.