LADY BETTY & BOOP

ANOTHER MOMMA & BABY

When we were rescuing Swayze and Priscilla from a killpen in Colorado I kept noticing that in every photo of them there was a little pair of hooves, or two long ears, or a donkey’s ass. And finally I called the lot and asked them if there were any donkeys and they said there was an older Jenny and a miniature John. Well these must have been the most clever donkeys in the world as this lot didn’t advertise the donkeys - so I guess these two were like “stand with the horses”. And that is how we spotted them.

SO a Skydog Tradition of saving a donkey who needed out began.

That was a rough haul. Swayze went down in the trailer and had to see a vet and these two donkeys were together in the lot, in the trailer and finally in the barn when they arrived with us for just a couple of days. Tyler was tiny and Lady Betty looked 100 years old and to tell you the truth I didn’t really think it was physically possible for them to “get together”. BUT our vet told me later, where there’s a will there’s a way, and 12 months later, almost to the day, along came Baby Boop. You live and learn and mistakes happen. But what a gorgeous, fluffy, adorable and welcome addition to our herd she was. Oh Boop, I still to this day don’t understand what hill your papa climbed up on to make you happen but thank goodness he did xxx

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.