Skydog Sanctuary

Our main goals involve giving sanctuary and a life-long home to wild horses who have been deemed untrainable, too wild, have been traumatized or are too old or injured to be easily homed. We also reunite families of wild horses separated during government roundups.
Our secondary goals are for our horses to act as ambassadors for all the other horses still standing in killpens and BLM holding pens to promote them as a breed and to help people understand their unique qualities and incredible teaching abilities.
We also aim to educate, inform and raise awareness for all wild horses still unadopted and shipping to slaughter. We have a large following of horse-loving people whom we have introduced to the American Mustang. We take our horses into schools, Girl Scout troops come visit our educational facility and many varied Childrens' non-profits come meet our horses and learn about what they can do to help.

Our initial goal (besides rescuing horses in dire situations) was to raise awareness and educate through social media. We have to date built a following of 120,000 on Facebook and 85,000 followers on Instagram in a very short time. We also have a solid sponsorship program for our horses as well as a wonderful stream of revenue through Patreon.
We have made an educational documentary about two of our horses which highlight the wild horse issues that surround them. That movie plus two others have been viewed over 20 million through through The Dodo and You Tube. Also we made a documentary called 'Pass the SAFE Act' about the rescue of two horses from a kill pen in Texas to encourage the US House and Senate to pass a bill which would stop American horses shipping to slaughter across our borders.

These numbers hugely surpasses the goals we had made in terms of numbers and raising awareness and it has made us all very proud to have done so much in such a short period of time.

We also focus on educating youth to the plight of the American mustang as children are the future. We believe children can make the most impact in helping these horses stay wild - and hopefully update this broken management system before it is too late.

We have many celebrity and famous supporters which have raised our profile allowing us higher visibility. This allows us to rescue more horses through fundraisers which have been very well supported via our social media presence. Donations doubled from the first year to our second year, and doubled yet again in our third year. And again in our fourth year. And miraculously even in a pandemic doubled again this year.

We have a great and growing team of volunteers who help in all areas of keeping our website current, our social media flowing, our emails and press and PR requests answered.

We also have the benefit of four ranches - all of which provide something different in terms of supporting our animals. We have Ambassador mustangs in LA who are easily accessible to media and PR and visits from various organizations. And we have 9000 acres in Oregon where horses can live wild on large areas where they need very little handling or interference from us.

Last year we helped save over 100 young horses from the slaughter pipeline. As you can see from the above paragraphs, we have succeeded in bringing over 145 equines to our sanctuary over the past four years who were in dire need.

They run free on our properties, but also receive foot care, inoculation and worming when necessary so they truly have the best of both worlds. All of their medical needs are more than met and they receive the best care and food possible. We also have 45 rescued donkeys and mules.

We pride ourselves on our social media outreach and American Mustang education.

In the future, we hope to expand awareness and education through more social media campaigns as well as building an education center for people to visit and have hands-on interaction with the horses.

We also hope to spread our desire to save the wild horse in America in a managed and successful, sustaining protocol. We will be speaking more to our representatives to being lasting change for wild horses of America.

We are also committed to raising awareness about the SAFE Act and making sure this gets passed.
This year 2021 we are launching a concerted PR digital and media campaign to lobby key members of Congress to get this legislation passed.

We are committed to bringing policy changes within the BLM to make sure that horses do not end up in the slaughter pipeline but are also given a better level of care in holding pens. We also plan on reuniting at least one more horse family in 2021 as well as other horses and donkeys in desperate need.