Driggs

Driggs was rounded up from Saylor Creek, Idaho. Photos of him in the wild show him with the Maine 3 - Raggedy Ann, Sienna, and Silver. 

He was 16 years old when we saw him on the internet adoption, where he was adopted in 2021. It’s harder for older wild boys to adjust well to training, but for those who can, we want them to have that chance. At first, he was coming along in his gentling, but then went to a TIP trainer. After that, he sadly regressed to being fearful of people again. His family loved him and saw that he was unhappy, so they wrote to us about giving him back his freedom.

Driggs met the Skydog wild boys with great confidence. All those years on the range have served him well. In 2024, we had to bring him in for lameness. It turned out he had a fracture of the coffin bone and needed barn rest in a cast, followed by rehab.

When he had healed, we turned him out with Cooper in a small pasture to monitor him for a few days before returnijg him to his herd. He ran amuck, kicking up heels in joy at no longer being confined - and more of the same when he went back to his herd. 

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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.

Ejiao Act of 2025 (H.R. 5544). 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.

See our How to Help menu for other actions to ban zebra hunting at canned hunt ranches in Texas & Oklahoma, bringing an end to the BLM using Sale Authority to funnel wild equines into the slaughter pipeline, and stopping production of Premarin & other drugs made from pregnant mare urine.