Snowball
Little Snowball was our BIG surprise at the end of Giving Tuesday 2024.
When we saved Mabel the BLM burro, I looked for a companion to travel in the trailer with her to Malibu. There were no other donkeys at the pen, but there was a one-eyed, senior mini pony with an auction sticker on her butt, who looked pretty banged up. Snowball immediately touched my heart.
The first mini pony we have ever taken, she’s going to be a lot of fun for the Malibu volunteers to pamper. I’ve been thinking that Boots might enjoy a friend his own size - not that he has any concept of size. As far as he’s concerned, every mare at the ranch is his. Like him, Snowball looks like a big personality in a tiny package. Who knows? Maybe the two of them will even fall in love.
An extraordinary Giving Tuesday ended on the happiest of notes with Snowball boarding her freedom ride with Mabel.
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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.