LITTLE GIRL
We were alerted about a mustang going to ship to slaughter straight from a Kill Buyers pen and we stepped in. Apparently she had been used in a Mexican Rodeo and then thrown away. We bailed her an hour after we heard of her and she was in Malibu the next day. The only video we saw of her she was being ridden by a horse flipper and this mighty mare actually threw him off her back. So just for that she deserved to be rescued.
Little Girl was checked by vets when she got here and found to have a respiratory illness as well as a heart murmur but she is doing well as long as we keep her quiet and don't put her in too big a pasture with too many boisterous horses. She is the sweetest smallest mare here and loved by all.
Mustangs & 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.