Ocean

Ocean is a beautiful cremello, the kind of horse that dreams are made of with his fair coat and pale blue eyes. A four-year-old Twin Peaks boy, he was rounded up by the BLM in 2024 - the same day as baby brothers, Sunny & Birch. He was lucky to survive the trap as roundup staff frequently shoot cremellos and other horses with blue eyes. They believe the old cowboy myth that blue-eyed horses are blind, which is just not true.

In August 2025, he was sent to a BLM adoption event held in Kellyville, Oklahoma. Sunny and Birch were also there. In the photograph of the two brothers from that event, you can see Ocean’s white ears sticking up behind them. He, like them, was sold Sale Authority (SA) for $25.

Oklahoma seems to be where mustangs are sent to die these days. So many are being sold SA and hauled straight to kill pens to be flipped for their meat price. This is a federal offense, something buyers certify they will not do when they sign the bill of sale. His adopter lives near Tahlequah, where there seems to be an organized crime ring of close to 50 people flipping SA mustangs into the pipeline for profit. The BLM is complicit as they are doing nothing to stop it. They have replaced the Adoption Incentive Program with Sale Authority so middlemen can get rid of as many federally protected wild horses as possible.

Ocean is the 8th young SA mustang we have taken already in 2026 - and it is only March! Normally, we rest in winter months, but so many mustangs are landing in terrible places that we’ve have been working flat out - with donor support - to save those we can.

We’ve also been gathering evidence, which has already proven invaluable. A lot is going on behind the scenes to shut down this “Sales to Slaughter" scheme by the BLM. You can learn more about it and take action to help us bring this abuse to an end.

I get very emotional when I think about Ocean having two friends waiting at Skydog to integrate him into Wild Boy’s herd. Older mustangs, like Ford, Tesoro, Hyas, and Flash mentor the youngsters, leading them across the landscape with Sheeps Rock in the distance. He lost so much, but we can restore his freedom, natural habitat, and the wild life that he was meant to have.

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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.