Jorja & TUPELO HONEY
October 20th is a special fundraising day, so let me introduce Jorja and Tupelo Honey! As many people know Janelle took part in the Oregon trainer challenge this year and chose a 6 year old horse named Ryder who she adores. Whenever we would go to the corrals she would look for his family and would always talk about his mother. A few months ago I got a message from a lady who had been at the corrals taking photos and she sent me a single picture of a colt missing an eye. She was worried for him and asked us to possibly adopt him. I sent the photo to Janelle and she wrote back “that’s Ryder’s Mom” The chances that out of hundreds of horses I would be sent that one photo was incredible. We had to wait months for the pen to be sorted for the babies to be weaned and thankfully Kayce at the BLM agreed to keep these two together and let us adopt them as he had special needs.
So today we are fundraising to bring them home. It makes me really happy to be able to do something special for Janelle who does SO much for all the horses and donkeys at SkydogThe last photo is Jorja on the range with Janelle’s boy Ryder as a baby and his name was Hidalgo on the range. They are South Steens mustangs and it’s been quite the year of that herd. We are so grateful as this will be the last save before #givingtuesday and then winter. Thank you to everyone who donates and let’s bring them home
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.