Blossom
On April 23rd, 2024 Lacey delivered a beautiful little girl. Lacey is young, so we’re pretty sure this is her first baby and she is doing everything right as a new mother. It’s too soon to tell from her baby coat what color she will be, but her mother was rounded up from Palomino Butte, the same herd as Lily. The baby might turn out to be golden (the predominant color of that herd) - or maybe grulla. It really doesn’t matter what color she turns as she is perfection.
The first 24 hours are critical, so we watch newborns like hawks in the delicate early days of their lives. Dr. Findlay came that day to monitor mother and daughter. The foal has an umbilical hernia, which will be no problem to correct. She’s not as robust as we like to see newborns, but we’re making sure she gets everything she needs.
Just to be safe, they will stay in the Skydog nursery until the baby is big enough to move into a larger pen with companions - and she’ll have many. Two other mares we rescued from kill pens will give birth in the coming weeks of spring.
The April full moon that heralded her birth is known as the Pink Moon, named for the pink wild flowers that appear this time of year in North America. With a seasonal explosion of rosy hues all around us, and the Pink Moon moving across the sky above us, we decided to name this precious little foal Blossom.
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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.