Noya

Giving Tuesday 2025

The 2nd save of Giving Tuesday 2025, Noya is a 9-year-old mare captured by the U.S. Forest Service in Devils Garden, California. Rarely, if ever, does an adopter have so many photos of their mustang in the helicopter roundup, trap, BLM holding facilities, and training. This makes Noya’s story full and extraordinary.

She traveled from Devil's Garden to the Ridgecrest facility and was then shipped to the Ewing facility in Illinois. After that, she returned to Ridgecrest before heading to a storefront in Arizona. She was then sent back for a third time to Ridgecrest where her first adopter took her. Next, she was sent to training and the photos say everything we need to know about the training and how much it traumatized her.

The last person to adopt her was told she was getting a  mustang that was supposedly "fully broke to ride”. That was far from the truth. She has numerous behavioral issues, most of which are her way of saying, "I don't like this. I don't want this.” Her adopter heard her loud and clear.

She poured her heart and soul into trying to help Noya transition to domestic life, but now knows without doubt that what this mare needs is her freedom and a herd to run with again. She needs to come to Skydog and is a perfect candidate for sanctuary.

So let's keep going - we have already got a good amount of her goal met so let's finish it off. At 12 PST I will go live with updates but also if you would like to ask me a question on the live vou can write it below and I will try and answer as many as I can during that live. But mostly we would love you to donate so we can get another horse on their freedom ride to Skydog. Our donate page www.skydogranch.org/

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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 US canned hunt ranches and stop production of Premarin & other PMU drugs.