Flint & Pfeiffer

Flint is a six-year-old grulla gelding from Swasey, Utah. Pfeiffer is a seven-year-old bald faced mare from Snowstorm Mountains, Nevada - a herd we have never saved a horse from before. Both are victims of the Sale Authoritv "sale to slaughter" tragedy designed by the BLM for funneling large numbers of mustangs to kill buyers in order to clear their holding pens for the 14,000 more they are rounding up this summer.

When we found Flint and Pfeiffer with two other SA mustangs, we wanted to help them, but it was impossible for us to take all four. We reached out to Dawn at Rosemary Farm Sanctuary (@rosemaryfarm) in the western Catskill Mountains of New York. She wonderfully said yes to helping two of them. A seven-year-old dun mare and a 4-year-old grey gelding are going to Rosemary’s. We would love for you to follow them there and watch their progress. Good rescues working together to save horses is such a win and we are very grateful.

All four mustangs were in horrible condition and way too thin. This is because they belonged to members of a family from Tallequah, Oklahoma that has taken hundreds of BLM mustangs via the Adoption Incentive Program or Sale Authority, then dumped them as soon as they had title or ownership. We have complained dozens of times over the past few years, but the BLM refuses to ban them. The last time I spoke to the BLM Special Investigator, he defended them.

Pfeiffer is named for Michelle Pfeiffer (@michellepfeifferofficial) as we so loved watching The Madison. And also for our wonderful photographer and friend, Shannon Phifer (@s.phiferphotography), who has done so much for Skydog.

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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.