foxy

Foxy is a mustang from the Triple B HMA in Nevada. He survived his roundup and ended up being run through a livestock auction in California. We had our eyes on him, but he went to a disreputable rescue. When we went to check on him, we had to re-rescue him. His face was covered with a million scars and scrapes that have healed. It was a very sad state of affairs and, as such, his arrival did not receive the usual fanfare, but Foxy is a very special mustang.

He joined Buddy’s herd and served as one of several Lieutenants, who tried to prevent Champ from stealing any more of Buddy’s mares. (If you can call it stealing. Champ has a way with the ladies and none of them seemed to object to being stolen!) 

Foxy is lighthearted and loves to goof around. He is first at the gate for the food cart and never misses a photo op. He always comes up for love and scratches from humans, but he’s completely happy living in a wild herd.

Foxy’s Triple B herd has been decimated by some of the most horrific BLM roundups in the last ten years, removing thousands of mustangs from the range.

In 2023, Laura Leigh Wild Horse Education wrote:

Triple B covers 1,232,484 acres. BLM says only 250-518 wild horses can live in this vast space. This amounts to about 1 horse on every 2,700 acres of territory originally intended to be managed principally, but not exclusively for wild horses. If BLM had analyzed “what the land could sustain” when the 1971 Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 was passed, the horses in this area would not be “overpopulated”. BLM has repeatedly used politics, not science, to determine carrying capacity. This area has been undergoing rapid expansion of mining, green energy transmission lines, and more. There is intense livestock use, but also intense extraction. Extractive industries use massive amounts of water. If we are talking about mining, we are talking hundreds of thousands of gallons per minute. Triple B is facing an expansion of the Bald Mountain Mine (Juniper Project). On top of mine expansion, BLM has already approved a massive project to increase fencing and water availability to the livestock permittee.

Foxy may be one of the last horses from this spectacular herd, but he’s safe at Skydog - and that means he’ll be safe for the rest of his days.

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 Helping Mustangs & Burros

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.