sweet pea
Sweet Pea was found at an auction in California. She was shaking with fear, starved, with her tail and legs caked in diarrhea. We paid her auction price and went and got her. When she arrived she sand coliced twice and when we felt her poop it was black and thick with sand. She had obviously been eating sand and dirt to survive and for days she pulled sticks and twigs into her stall from around her and ate the bark as she must have become used to doing. She is a sweet three year old mustang and is halter broken and titled so we have no idea why anyone would dump her at auction and dispose of her in that way.
Sweet Pea at the auction and afterwards at Skydog Malibu. She now lives at Skydog Oregon with her original friends of Honey Palouse and Sheldon and we have been able to halter train her and she stands well for her feet and shots now and is easy to handle. We had a trainer put a few test rides on her and it was found out that her back legs have some issues when she is under saddle so she is living the good life in a big space now.
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.