noble

Well now doesn’t Noble have a story to tell. How hard everyone fought for this eleven-year-old brown horse to come to Skydog and regain his freedom.

Spotted In a pen by many of you, with Blue Zeus and Spartan there was nothing to particularly distinguish him from any other brown horse. Except the tips of his ears were missing - most likely lost to frostbite. Not that it made him any less handsome. He was regal, stoic and most of the time was turned away from us. When I went to the prison facility to look for him it meant going back into the pen with dozens of other old boys and it killed me. Just tore my heart out. All of them are worthy and deserving but how can we keep on taking them - there are just too too many.

Just when my heart was cracking as we opened the gate to go in - I spotted him. He turned right around to face me and just looked right at me and stared. And I knew he knew I had come back for him. I watched for a while to see if he had another friend he was bonded to but unlike many others, he was content by himself and that was it.

This is not for the faint-hearted. We went back for him and didn’t turn away.  Noble, we got you. You’re coming to Skydog 🤎🤎
#skydognoble

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.