MISSY
Missy was one of our first owner relinquishments. A lady reached out to us and told us that she had Missy for eleven years since she was a baby. She was born in a BLM corral but her mother sadly died of a broken neck. So Missy was adopted out and she then spent her entire life in a stall. She had no social interaction with other horses and didn’t leave her pen but was fed and watered. She was never gentled so her feet were pretty long and her mane was a matted dreadlock. The lady who had her said she had started to attack her and she wanted two things for her - to get her mane untangled and to see her run free with other horses. Well, we managed both.
Missy first came to our ranch in Calabasas as we didn’t have Oregon then and was part of the first batch of rescued horses to come up to the new Skydog Oregon when we began. She had been so strange when she was penned up and bared her teeth like a dog, bit and kicked if you came near. But the day we turned her out was the day she remembered how to be a wild horse. She ran with the herd as if she had done it a million times before, moving like a beautiful flock of birds, Missy was a Mustang once more. With time she gentled down and we managed to comb out her mane and now she lives in Buddy’s herd with her original friends Love, Jackson, and Lisa Marie. #skydogmissy
Mustangs & 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 Senators and urge them to support these bills:
Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act of 2023 (H.R. 3475 in the House / S.2307 in the Senate). This bill will 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. 3656) This bill will prohibit the use of helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft in the management of wild mustangs and burros on public lands, and require a report on humane alternatives to current management practices.
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.
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
See our How to Help menu for other actions to ban zebra hunting at US canned hunt ranches, stop production of Premarin & other PMU drugs, and defund the Adoption Incentive Program.