mary

Mary is such a sweet delicate mare. 20 years old, skinny, sick, and sad she was dumped in a kill pen in May 2020. Lost, forlorn and alone she walked the pens trying to find any person to help her. She would follow the people around like a puppy hoping they would help her or take her home. When I was sent a video of a man riding her with spurs and pulling her head around and pushing her forward it made me feel ill. This little tiny mustang mare should not have had a human on her back in the condition she was in. It also turned out she was very sick at the time but nobody gave her any vet care or attention.

We got her out of the pen as soon as we could and started feeding her up and bringing her back to health and wellness. We took her to a wonderful quarantine facility where she began to gain weight and thankfully came out the other side of her sickness. We don’t know where Mary is from - she was born in a Long Term Holding BLM Facility after her mother was rounded up and robbed of her freedom. No record was kept off what herd she was from or what state - she was just a number. First, a tag number in BLM holding and then an auction sticker number was slapped on her backside to run through a livestock auction where she was bought for cheap by a Kill Buyer. All he cared about was the money he made from her flesh, either from slaughter or a rescue stepping up for her. Well we did, and Mary is home safe and we love her. #skydogmary

 Helping Mustangs & Burros

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.