CEDAR

Cedar, with the long forelock over her eyes, is from Stinkingwater where Wildflower and the boys are from. She has PSSM, a disorder that causes muscle cramping in horses from abnormal glycogen (sugar) storage in the muscles, so was returned. The black mare is Cricket and she’s from Paisley Desert. She went through a lot being rounded up and then was returned to the BLM corrals for being sick. Since she came to the sanctuary she has settled in and is confident and friendly. She will come up to people for a treat and we have seen no signs at all of the illness she carries so we think without the stress of training or trauma of the roundup she is going to be able to live a long and happy life out with a herd. When we met her on the last trip to the corrals we knew we had to come back for her. now there is nothing but future good days for her and her friend Cricket. #skydogcedar

At the BLM Corrals and after wild and free on our 9000 acre sanctuary near Bend Oregon x

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.