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A former Hollywood producer turned rancher is rescuing mustangs and wild donkeys from being sold at auction to potentially abusive environments or slaughterhouses.
Clare Staples is her name, and when she first became aware that the West’s wild mustangs are rounded up by the Bureau of Land Management and sold at auction, she realized this meant that horse families were being separated against their will.
Already having passed 50 and looking for a purpose-driven mission in her life, she founded Skydog Ranch and Sanctuary intending to provide 9,000 acres of grazing land where mustangs and wild donkeys, called burros, can roam in familial peace for the rest of their days.
In media interviews, Staples has likened the work to that of the detective. Horses across 10 western states are gathered in the annual “round-up”—a vast capture operation of wild horses and burros to keep their numbers down. Often this means a mare and her foal living in Arizona might be separated, with the foal sold in Oregon, and the mare sold in Nevada, or something similar.
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Clare Staples is her name, and when she first became aware that the West’s wild mustangs are rounded up by the Bureau of Land Management and sold at auction, she realized this meant that horse families were being separated against their will.
Already having passed 50 and looking for a purpose-driven mission in her life, she founded Skydog Ranch and Sanctuary intending to provide 9,000 acres of grazing land where mustangs and wild donkeys, called burros, can roam in familial peace for the rest of their days.
In media interviews, Staples has likened the work to that of the detective. Horses across 10 western states are gathered in the annual “round-up”—a vast capture operation of wild horses and burros to keep their numbers down. Often this means a mare and her foal living in Arizona might be separated, with the foal sold in Oregon, and the mare sold in Nevada, or something similar.
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She Rescues Wild Mustangs That Are Rounded-Up and Reunites Their Herds on Her Ranch
Staples uses a network of photographers to track herd and family members and uses the money made through her nonprofit operations to buy them
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