BUTLER

Butler is a chocolate palomino mustang we saved at Eugene auction.  The only thing they listed about him was that he had been used as a packhorse and the several photos that came with him show he was healthy and well taken care of, so we don't understand why he ended up at auction with a kill buyer being the only other person bidding on him.  Butler is a sweet and loving horse who is really enjoying his freedom and new friends on the ranch. 

It is hard to believe that anybody knowingly sends a loyal and good horse to auction knowing the fate that most probably befalls them.  We try as much as possible to catch mustangs at auction where they often sell for as little as two hundred dollars to kill buyers, who then immediately list them on their sites between 400 to up to 1200 dollars to cash in on them, or if they can't then they just ship them straight to slaughter and sell them by the pound for their meat for people in Europe and Asia to eat.  Luckily Butler never had to see the inside of a trailer to the kill pen or make that trip to Canada.

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.