hermes
Since it was Father’s day weekend, we knew it was the right thing to do to also bring home the son of Apollo, named Hermés. He was really getting beaten up in the pen and had a lot of bite marks across his back. Sometimes your heart gives you no choice and we knew he had to come too. This couldn’t be the last day he saw what was left of his family. So happy Father’s Day to Apollo - you have your boys with you and I can’t think of a better way to honor these amazing fathers. It was a long few days, very emotional and draining. But they’re home thanks to our incredible hauler Carla Lays and thanks to Steve Leonard at BLM Cañon City for putting on this adoption event for these older guys and making them available. Sometimes our pleas fall on deaf ears, so when they don’t we are hugely grateful to the people who work with us for the horses. Blue Zeus, Apollo, Aslan, and Hermes - you just landed in heaven
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.