BARNABY

When we were set the video of Barnaby, the mustang, being led around at the kill pen, they said he was incredibly bonded to this mare, Bella. She wasn’t a mustang but we sure weren’t going to leave her behind. So we saved them both and they called to each other all the way through the process, making sure their friend, Chester, was still with them.

Barnaby is more like 30 years old, with facial fractures, skin disease, lumps bumps and three brands on his beautiful body. He’s a mustang but since being rounded up he’s been worked hard without receiving much care or loving. I wish we had more time to show him how wonderful life can be and how gentle things will be from now on until the end. Every single day from now on we will make up for all the love he didn’t get to experience. He adores his mashes and devours them as if he’s worried they will be his last. I love him and I know so do all the staff and all of you and I believe he can feel all that good energy coming his way. Barnaby the mustang turns out to be from Oregon, and while we would like to send him back there, it’s simpler much better to keep him and Bella in Malibu for now so they can receive extra attention and care. #skydogbarnaby

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.