Wild Boy

This is an incredibly deserving wild horse who has been waiting a long time to come to Skydog. He was rescued from the Stroud kill pen a year ago by an amazing woman in Florida, who has a few other rescues. She had hoped to gentle him and bring him to her. It was only when he went to quarantine that she realized he was extremely wild. Way, way too wild to settle down - and he was an intact stallion.

She tried everything she could, but didn’t want to send him back or sell him. He would only have ended up in another bad situation. When she first approached us, I explained it was our policy not to take wild, unhandled stallions, but I have never communicated with anyone who wanted so badly to help a horse. He was lucky to have her advocating for him. She cared so deeply and wanted him to land in a good place to run free. So I said if she could get him gelded and bring him to Skydog, we would give him sanctuary. It was darn near impossible, but she finally found a vet to do the procedure! Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

We have started him out with a small bachelor band of wild guys - Elliot, Emerson, Lennon, and Hyas. Those first friends are so important for new rescues to regain their balance. When they are ready, we’ll release them onto open spaces to reclaim their freedom. One thing is certain: Wild Boy needs that every bit as much as the BLM mustangs around him.

We know next to nothing about this horse. For such a wild stallion to end up in the slaughter pipeline without a BLM brand suggests he might have come from a reservation, but we really don’t know. His torn right ear may hint at former days of battle. He does have a brand on his shoulder with the letters WB, which prompted Scott Wilson to name him Wild Boy. And so it is. And so he is and ever shall be.

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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 Senators and urge them to support these bills:

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.

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 and stop production of Premarin & other PMU drugs.

Bills from the previous 118th Congress that we hope will be introduced again this 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.