Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary

We're a 501(c)3 Saving @ risk WildHorses & Burros from the Slaughter pipeline Donations help save & care for the mustangs EIN 84-5158782

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

@SunflowerRuu We did it thank you Sunflower https://t.co/O6E5Y7LLeV

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

Hooray! We have received enough donations to meet the match for the 2 pregnant BLM mares Thank you to ALL that helped save 4 more lives

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

@RcRegalstarfire Thank you Cheryl

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

@jwmooney3 Thank you

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

$939 needed to meet the match for the 2 pregnant mares & they can be picked up TODAY with the 2 geldings & burros All donations are tax deductible https://t.co/oDqsIwwGUq… https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh…

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

The 2 burros have received the funds needed Now the 2 pregnant mares are next $969 needed to meet the match & they can be picked up TODAY with the 2 geldings & burros All donations are tax deductible https://t.co/V8etk3w4BY https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

@christie_j3 Thank you Christie

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

@alikat747 Thank you so much Ali

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

$641.75 needed for 2 once wild and free #wildhorses Please #share #retweet #donate & get this done today https://t.co/V8etk3w4BY https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

Hooray! We have received enough donations to meet the match for the 2 pregnant BLM mares Thank you to ALL that helped save 4 more lives

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

$641.75 needed for 2 once wild and free #wildhorses Please #share #retweet #donate & get this done today https://t.co/V8etk3w4BY https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

$641.75 needed for 2 once wild and free #wildhorses Please #share #retweet #donate & get this done today https://t.co/V8etk3w4BY https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

Final Plea tonight we did not receive enough donations to meet the match for the 2 pregnant mares $844 needed https://t.co/oDqsIwwGUq… https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh…

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

Final Plea tonight we did not receive enough donations to meet the match for the 2 pregnant mares $844 needed https://t.co/oDqsIwwGUq… https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh…

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

$844. needed to meet the match for the 2 BLM pregnant mares All donations are tax deductible #wildhorses https://t.co/V8etk3w4BY https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

$844. needed to meet the match for the 2 BLM pregnant mares All donations are tax deductible #wildhorses https://t.co/V8etk3w4BY https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

@SunflowerRuu Thank you Sunflower

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

$919 needed to meet the match for the 2 pregnant mares & they can be picked up TODAY with the 2 geldings & burros All donations are tax deductible https://t.co/oDqsIwwGUq…… https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh……

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

The 2 burros have received the funds needed Now the 2 pregnant mares are next $969 needed to meet the match & they can be picked up TODAY with the 2 geldings & burros All donations are tax deductible https://t.co/V8etk3w4BY https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

$844. needed to meet the match for the 2 BLM pregnant mares All donations are tax deductible #wildhorses https://t.co/V8etk3w4BY https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

The 2 burros have received the funds needed Now the 2 pregnant mares are next $969 needed to meet the match & they can be picked up TODAY with the 2 geldings & burros All donations are tax deductible https://t.co/V8etk3w4BY https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

$919 needed to meet the match for the 2 pregnant mares & they can be picked up TODAY with the 2 geldings & burros All donations are tax deductible https://t.co/oDqsIwwGUq…… https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh……

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

The 2 burros have received the funds needed Now the 2 pregnant mares are next $969 needed to meet the match & they can be picked up TODAY with the 2 geldings & burros All donations are tax deductible https://t.co/V8etk3w4BY https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A wild donkey in the Arizona desert will dig a well six feet deep with its front hooves, and for half a century the United States government has been shooting it as a threat to the desert.

August on a dry wash in the Sonoran. The creek has been gone since May. The sand is hot enough to cook on and every animal for miles is standing in what shade it can find, waiting for a rain that is not coming. A burro walks down the wash, stops at a bend for no reason anyone else can see, puts its head down and smells. Then it starts digging. Front feet, one after the other, like a dog after a bone, until it is in up to its shoulders and the bottom of the hole goes dark and wet.

It drinks and walks off.

Within the hour there is a queue. Mule deer. Javelina. A bobcat. A scrub jay standing on the rim. In 2021 a biologist called Erick Lundgren published the count in Science: 59 species of vertebrate drinking at donkey wells, 64% more species than at the dry stretches of the same streams, and in the driest months the donkeys were raising the amount of open water in the desert by 300% on average and by up to 1,450%. When the wells were abandoned, cottonwood and willow seedlings came up in them. The donkey had been planting the riverbank.

Asked about his methodology, the donkey had another drink and left.

When a beaver builds a pond, a film crew is sent. When a donkey digs a well, the Park Service sends a marksman. The burros came up from Mexico with the Spanish and the prospectors, carried the ore out of every mine in the West, and were turned loose when the mines closed. Then they were reclassified. In 1979 the National Park Service planned to shoot all 577 in the Grand Canyon. A writer called Cleveland Amory raised more than $500,000 and lifted 582 of them out by helicopter, slung underneath, the most expensive taxi ride a donkey has ever taken. Death Valley shot 400 between 1987 and 1994.

Lundgren said that when he started, people did not think a donkey digging a hole was worthy of scientific attention.

The animal was listed as a threat to the desert's water.

It was the one bringing the water up.

Fifty-nine species knew.

The ones with the rifles had never sat by the hole.

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

@christie_j3 Thank you Christie

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

If we can get the 2 geldings and 2 burros saved & get sponsors for these 2 pregnant mares shipping tomorrow we will fundraise to save the 4 We have until morning Makes us sick seeing pregnant moms ship https://t.co/V8etk3w4BY https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

@MVGosnoldFarmer Thank you Namiko

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

Final Plea tonight $1501 needed for 2 bonded BLM burros We have a $1080 Angel Donor match for the 2 pregnant mares All can be picked up TOMORROW if we receive donations needed Please help get them home https://t.co/V8etk3w4BY https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh

[Salvation Wild Mustang Sanctuary @WildCorp]

$1521 still needed for the bonded burros We took a chance & put a hold on the 2 pregnant mares & now have a monthly sponsor for both so need $2160 for their freedom ride. Please help all of them home & Safe https://t.co/V8etk3w4BY https://t.co/zxYIF9wTEc https://t.co/ePK6EQudrh