🌤️ Happy #WildHorseWednesday! - Both play fighting and actual fighting help stallions to practice for, establish or maintain roles with the herd, including: defending mares or resources, hierarchy, managing band behaviors (correcting tenacious youth, for example), & competing for mares. #horses

Shutdowns are emblematic of greater dysfunction and continued inaction: One more day on which our government has failed wild herds on our public lands and put off removing the threat of slaughter for every American horse. Take action ⬇️ #horses

🎃 Wishing everyone a spooky and safe All Hallows’ Eve.

Photo by Bev Pettit at our sanctuary. #wildhorses #horses

The government has been shut down, but we cannot fall silent. Until Congress acts, American #horses and other equines will continue being shipped to foreign slaughterhouses. Learn more / take action ⬇️

☀️ It’s lunchtime at our San Luis Obispo, Calif., satellite sanctuary! Our 2,000-acre satellite is home to more than 85 #wildhorses and burros that once roamed public lands in Oregon, Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona. More ⤵️

UPDATE: Our federal court case deciding the future of wild horses in Southwest Wyoming has been stayed as a result of the government shutdown. Learn more about the case and how you can support this important litigation: returntofreedom.org/update-shutd... #horses

The number of #horses shipped out of the country for slaughter is up 25% from a year ago. Congress must pass the bipartisan Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act to both impose a lasting slaughter ban and shut down the foreign slaughter pipeline. ⬇️

Meet Johnny, an adorable little colt born just last Saturday! Johnny’s mama, Sierra, and his sire, Jack, are part of a group of 30 Spanish mustangs that arrived at our Lompoc, Calif., headquarters sanctuary in December 2018. #foalfriday

🧵The looming government shutdown would provide a reprieve for some wild horses and burros facing removal from the range, but each day will represent further inaction on #wildhorses and on horse slaughter. ⬇️