Taylor and Swift

One of the most important missions of our sanctuary is to promote adoptions of mustangs out of BLM holding pens.  To show people how to go through that process and prepare them for their own mustang we decided to adopt this young mare and foal to film it for a video diary so that people can see exactly how the whole thing works from filling out the paper work to picking the horse up and bringing it home.

We found this photograph of a mare who had just given birth to her foal in a BLM corral in Burns Oregon and decided to adopt her to get her sickly baby safe and for her to highlight the process of adoptions and promote them. Swift is now an amazing looking young filly in her own right and lives out with Bear’s herd. She, like all the young horses born or adopted young at Skydog, is gentled early so that we can handle them for feet, loading and shots. It truly is the best of both worlds for these horses.

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.