colorado

Colorado was 23 years old when we saved her. This black beauty comes from Little Book Cliffs, Colorado, our second mustang from that state after Rain. When we first saw this mare we immediately wanted to help her.  As an obese senior, she had very little chance of being adopted, she needed a soft landing. There was room for two more on the trailer when our hauler picked her up, so little Angel and Scout traveled with her. They comforted each other on the road and when they first arrived at Skydog looking like survivors of a shipwreck who had washed up on a beach.

Mustangs are designed to move long distances on a diet that is not too high in sugar. We could tell when we saw Colorado that she had probably been turned out on grass for years without any care. She was horribly overweight with a lot of fat on her neck and back. Her feet were in urgent need of help before she foundered. Obesity like this in horses at a later age leads to all kinds of problems. We wanted to give her the care she needed to live the life she deserves.

She has blossomed and transformed as much as any horse that heals at Skydog. Her healthy coat glimmers like velveteen. Covering so much land and eating the right food has made her fit and strong, probably adding ten years to her life. When we turned her out, she took to the new herd very well. She was happy to have her freedom back with so much land to roam.

Colorado instantly formed a beautiful bond with Copper Penny and they are always together. Penny had not really made friends with other horses, but this was love at first sight. I don’t know why that happens, but it’s amazing when it does. They dote upon one another, constantly touch, and never leave the other’s side with a devotion comparable to the Ballerinas.

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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.