WINTER

Winter is a mare rescued from ISPMB who ended up starved, pregnant and with a foal at her side after a sanctuary failed. We took Winter and her foal, Blizzard, and named them that so we never forgot where they came from: minus 40 degrees in blizzards and a snowstorm with wind chill at night being even lower. None of the horses had shelter or windbreaks or even trees to stand behind. Many of the horses and foals froze to death. 

Winter was hauled here in the dead of winter and in the middle of storms but she and her friend Sooty and their two foals who were 4 and 5 months when they arrived here survived and have flourished since being here. They are now living altogether with the other mares and foals and Winter has since had her second foal, Wilder.  The foals are both beautiful and we spend a lot of time with them gentling them for easier handling. #skydogwinter

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.