Millie

When we found Millie in an Oklahoma kill pen, she was lost and confused with auction stickers all over her neck. The pen was told she was eight years old, but she was obviously a senior and in a lot of pain. Her feet had not been trimmed in years, yet she’d been dragged through two auctions and transport. It’s infuriating that her owner got paid for bringing her in rather than charged with animal cruelty. 

I showed pictures of her feet to our vet and Janelle, who both think that we can help her. In the meanwhile, we wanted to help her feel better as soon as possible and sent her straight to Quarantine with lovely people. The whole family assisted with her unloading and helping her to her stall. A vet and farrier came straight out and went to work. They took x-rays to see what is going on with her coffin bones. Just getting the bulk off those hooves took pressure off her tendons when she walked. With pain meds on board, good food and water, and love, they were able to make her much more comfortable. When she’s able to travel to Skydog, we’ll take the next steps to give her healthy hooves and a normal life like Waldo.

Millie is a trooper, a fighter, and just about the sweetest, most gentle donkey ever. She is loving and such a good girl, despite the way that humans have treated her. There is no excuse for neglecting her feet that way and another example of the extra fear and suffering caused by the slaughter pipeline. This is why we have to get the SAFE Act passed. Please take a a few minutes for Millie and contact your Rep and Senators about co-sponsoring and passing the Save America’s Forgotten Equines Act of 2025.

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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.