How it works
By committing annually to a $100/month sponsorship of a mustang or burro, you help us enormously in ensuring that the horse or donkey you pick will allow us to take more.
When the equines we have already saved are financially supported by people who care about them, then Skydog can become home to many more wild horses still in danger or in need of being reunited with their families.
You can read their stories on our Then & Now Mustang Page, with 200 unique tales!
SPONSORSHIP INCLUDES:
A personalized Certificate of sponsorship with a photo of the horse or donkey you choose and your name.
A 60 minute one on one visit to Skydog Ranch to meet the horse you are sponsoring, and spend time hanging out with them, taking photographs and asking questions of our staff.
Thank you so much to all of our supporters and sponsors. Currently, the beautiful Mary is currently looking for sponsorship but we are more than happy though for you to sign up as an additional sponsor for any other horse or burro you feel a connection to. You can see all of them and their stories at ‘Then and Now’ on this website.
There are also currently several cute and wonderful donkeys needing sponsorship including Agnes, AJ, Alice and Archibald in Oregon who are all wild as the wind senior BLM donkeys, we also have Blackjack (Malibu), Bonnie & Clyde mini mules, Boop (daughter of Peggy Sue), Fufu (the son of Flopsy) in Malibu, Lucy Van Pelt, Miss Tiggywinkle, Deniro, and Paulie.
We are currently having to make sure people have sponsored their horse or donkey for at least 9 months to come and visit them, as we have recently had people sign up for one month come visit and then cancel their sponsorship as they just wanted a tour and to see Skydog which isn’t fair on the horses or our staff. SO if you want to come sooner then you would have to pay the full amount for 9 months up front of a visit. Apologies but sadly we have to make this new provision as it takes so much time from our staff and it takes them away from their work and the horses who need them.
SKYDOGS - THEN & NOW
As time passes, we meet and save and rescue new horses, but for new followers the individual stories of each horse we take is clearly told with photos on our page “for the horses” “Skydog - Then and Now” Page!
ANOTHER WAY TO SUPPORT SKYDOG RANCH
Sponsor through PATREON with multiple sponsorship options
Sponsoring through Patreon allows you to see exclusive videos and photographs of the behind-the-scenes work at Skydog, find out about things that are happening soon, and follow rescues as they happen.
Featured Horses and burros
Memphis
Memphis, a gorgeous bay roan gelding from Fish Creek, Nevada, has a massive scar, most likely where a mountain lion tore a chunk of flesh out of his left hip. Fortunately, it does not cause him pain and he moves just beautifully. He was brought to our attention by Kayce at the Burns corrals after a wonderful adopter reluctantly had to return him. She’d invested a lot of heart, time, effort, and money with multiple trainers, but none were able to gentle him enough to permit the necessary hoof care. When we first saw him in June, we told him, “We might come back for you, buddy” and presented him for consideration to the board. He tugged at our hearts from that day forward - with tag #5002, he reminded everyone of Noble, whose tag was #5001. Thanks to the unprecedented generosity of donors on Giving Tuesday, we were able to pick him up in December. It was the smoothest loading ever. Cool as a cucumber, he trotted a few feet to his destiny and hopped on board like he’d been loading all his life. He fit right in with a band of truly wild spirits, who were never meant for domestication: Commander, Rango, and Neo. Please consider sponsoring Memphis.
TIN MAN
NOW SPONSORED, THANK YOU!
Handsome but not well known Tin Man came to us when we rescued him from a kill pen in Kansas. He and Scarecrow were there and this boy was labelled extra wild and was running panicked and scared up and down the small pen they film them in looking for a way out. He was “just another brown horse” and none of us realized he would turn into the most splendid and beautiful mustang he is today. He is nine years old and from Little Owyhee in Nevada and who knows what led him to being dumped as this was before the AIP program which offers 1000 dollars to take away a mustang. He has a tiny white star and gorgeous white highlights under his belly and at the top of his legs. He’s gorgeous and needs his own person so please sign up for him today x
Little Girl
NOW SPONSORED, THANK YOU!
So this is our Little Girl. Rescued from a horse trader in California she is Buddy’s lead mare and constant companion. Earlier this year she got some deep ulcers in her eyes and she has been in the barn and also at Bend Equine on and off for months as they have been debrided and treated and her vet bills have been enormous. But thanks to our Patrons and incredible donors we have treated her through all this with the equine crew often having to get up numerous times in the night to apply creams and give medicines to keep her recovery on course. She is now so close to getting turned back out with Buddy and I cannot wait as he seems pretty lost without her. I owe her a huge debt of gratitude for being Buddy’s girl and never leaving him to run off with Phoenix or Hawk. She’s a good little girl.
NEO
NOW SPONSORED, THANK YOU!
Neo was one of out #givingtuesday saves and what a handsome deserving boy he was. He was rescued from the Colorado kill pen and his adopter put so much time and effort plus a ton of funds into him to try to help him transition into domestic life. He just wasn’t able to adapt and went to several different trainers to see if a different approach would help but it didn’t and eventually his adopter asked us to take him as he was an Oregon mustang. He’s “just a bay” but so much more than that as he’s stunning with a long long black mane and soulful eyes that tell a deep story. He is so worthy of sanctuary placement and we hope someone falls in love with him enough to sponsor him and we would all love that for him.
RESCUED MUSTANGS
THERE ARE OVER 250 HORSES AND 50 DONKEYS HERE AT SKYDOG
Click on any of the photos to find out more or read their stories on our Then and Now Mustang Page.
RESCUED DONKEYS, MULES, ZONKEYS & ZEBRA
