Adopt a retired military working dog

I get an email newsletter from Madeleine Pickens, a woman I greatly admire for her work to save America's wild mustangs. The newsletter is about easy things we can do to help the mustangs and I am sure you can sign up to get it at her website www.madeleinepickens.com
Today her newsletter is so sweet! She has adopted a German Shepherd named Chyba, and Chyba is a retired military working dog with 10 years of work, defending our country. For a video of Chyba see the above named website.

For more about this program see militaryworkingdogadoptions.com
Madeleine also recommends the website savingamericasmustangs.org

Wild Horses and Great Plan to Save Them

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Like me, did you grow up reading all the Black Stallion books, and the Misty of Chincoteague books, and riding horses or ponies? I have long admired and loved horses and their deep eyes and myriad personalities. Now our wild horses are faced with a crisis, as their numbers are growing.

I am so happy that there is an excellent plan to create a 1,000,000 acre sanctuary for America's wild horses. Madeleine Pickens at http://madeleinepickens.com
describes this plan that she is working on.

Since America's wild horses roam on federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, which allows cattle grazing by private ranchers, the number of horses the land can carry is limited legally. Shockingly the BLM has about 30,000 of our wild horses in large and small holding pens and facilities, since the number of wild horses allowed on BLM lands (owned by us taxpayers) is limited, so they round up the "excess" horses and put them in pens. Some are adopted, but there are so many that euthanasia is being discussed.

Mrs. Pickens' wonderful plan outlines a private purchase of a huge ranch which can be home to perhaps 30,000 wild horses. At her website please click on "send an email to Ben Salazar" in support of this plan. Another useful website is http://wildhorsefriends.com