Driggs
This 16-year-old boy was on the internet adoption in January 2021 and he’s from Saylor Creek Idaho. He was one of the seniors we looked at to make sure they had bids and he got one bid and that was the last we knew of him. Recently his adopter wrote to us about the possibility of giving him back his freedom, as he wasn’t settling into domestic life. He also has a lot of scar tissue on his front knees which sometimes causes him pain. Originally, he was coming along in his gentling but then went to a TIP trainer and after that he sadly regressed to being fearful of people again. His family who loved him could tell he was unhappy trying to be domesticated and needed to be free. It’s hard to adopt older wild boys and expect them to adjust well to training, but at the same time we want to give them a chance of that. This year we have taken several who got adopted and when it didn’t work out, we were here for them. Gladly Driggs didn’t have to go through what his herd mates the Maine Three did before coming to us as he’s been in a loving home. Driggs needed his freedom just as badly, so we were so happy to be able to bring him to Skydog. #skydogdriggs
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.