SILVER

Silver and her friends, Sienna and Raggedy Anne (Annie) are now home and safe together at Skydog’s Oregon Ranch. Taken from their homeland as seniors, put up for adoption to the highest bidder, then sent as far as you can travel from Saylor Creek Idaho to Maine. She was starved and neglected with the other two, seized as part of a cruelty case and today they made it all the way back with the help of a whole lot of people who cared enough to rescue them, donate for them and give them back what was so wrongly stolen. They have each other, freedom, wildness and care. It is completely our privilege to give it back to them and again right another wrong perpetuated on these wild horses by man.

On the range, Silver had a massive family band and he was a king, until it was taken away from him. Today we are renaming this group “Silver’s herd”. He deserves it and has earned the honor. With his two lead mares at his side he again rules the land he walks on. What a breathtakingly beautiful sight tonight where peace rules and harmony happens right before your eyes. Thank you to Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals for giving them this and bringing them home. I have the utmost respect for you all! #skydogsilver

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.