Blaze

Blaze

Blaze was captured by the BLM off Fish Creek HMA in September 2019. He and his family were well known and loved by Laura Leigh of Wild Horse Education. She had followed them for years and we said yes to Blaze’s family being the one we would take in 2020. Sadly, when we took Elsa and the twins, we were subjected to an insane amount of online harassment, abuse, and bullying. My health suffered to the point I didn’t manage to adopt the family before they were all shipped to other facilities across the West. Blaze was slated to be on a truck for Long Term Holding where he would never be seen again, but a kind wrangler at the BLM agreed to sort him out of the pen.  We purchased him Sale Authority for $25 and brought him home.

We didn’t stop there. We managed to find one of his three mares and bring her back to him all the way from BLM Idaho. She had been pregnant on the range and delivered her baby, Belle Star, a couple months later at Skdog. She is a perfect blend of her mother and father. These families are so hard to reunite and we will continue to fight to keep them together and promote their bonds and families as a huge part of our mission. #skydogblaze

American 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 two Senators to urge them to support these bills. 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

Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act of 2025 (H.R.1661 in the House and S.775 in the Senate). This bill would amend the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, commonly known as the “Farm Bill”. There are several important provisions for animals in that omnibus federal law, including the Cat and Dog Meat Trade Prohibition Act. It is currently illegal to slaughter, transport, possess, purchase, sell, or donate dogs and cats, or their parts, for human consumption. The SAFE Act would extend the ban to equines and 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. 4356) The bill would eliminate the use of helicopters in rounding up wild horses and burros, and require a study into alternative methods for humanely gathering the animals.

See our How to Help menu for other actions to ban zebra hunting at US canned hunt ranches and stop production of Premarin & other PMU drugs.

A bill from the previous 118th Congress that we hope will be introduced again this session:

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.