ANNIE

Annie is a stunning 24-year-old paint mustang mare with an unbroken spirit. She is also part of The Maine Saylor Creek Three, a group of three senior mustangs who were starved and neglected in Maine, just about as far away from their homeland as could be. Along with Silver and Phoebe, Annie was rounded up from the Saylor Creek range management area in Idaho on August 13, 2020. As an older wild horse, Annie was no longer eligible for the BLM’s adoption program and was instead offered for sale. Sadly, Annie was sold into a terrible situation in Maine. At the time, we were receiving hate from mustang groups who ludicrously accused us of bidding against “good homes” for IA horses. The BLM then (horrifically) used taxpayer dollars to ship them across the country to Maine where their adopter starved and neglected them. Thankfully a wonderful Horse Rescue in Maine @mainehorserescue took these three horses in along with 17 others as part of a seizure starvation case.

Maine Horse Rescue is an incredible organization which brought them back to health and now they want more than anything to return them to the wide-open spaces of Skydog Sanctuary, as they are still mostly wild and deserve the freedom after their treatment. Annie, her friend Sienna, and gelding Silver made the long journey back home and our Skydog’s first Idaho mustangs. #skydogannie

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.