LOVE
Love was rescued from a kill pen in Waco Texas. The photographs show her standing in mud and poop looking lost and scared with cuts on her face and terrible looking feet. We sent her straight to Reata Equine Hospital to be treated for any respiratory diseases she might have caught in the pen as they very often come out with pneumonia or other illnesses from being around sick horses, and then she was brought to California.
Since being at the ranch she has blossomed and gained so much confidence and is just the sweetest girl. She was terribly head shy when she arrived and flinched when people raised their hand near her face but now all that fear has dissolved away. She is a long way from the description we had of her from the killpen where she was described as being unhandleable and dangerous. She was just plain terrified. And now she is safe.
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.