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Clare Staples

Clare Staples

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Sep 12, 2026

Jamie BaldanzaGUEST
19:35
to get this out there, especially with that New York Times article, but Blue Zeus is a wild horse from Wyoming who was rounded up and separated from his family.
Jamie BaldanzaGUEST
19:47
And then Claire Staples of Sky Dog made it her mission to save Blue Zeus or adopt him and then go and actually find his family, which is no easy feat.
Jamie BaldanzaGUEST
19:59
She got lucky because it was during the pandemic, so they didn't really have a lot of time to move horses around so they were all in one spot which was incredible but what's great about this film it weaves in a bigger story of what's going on today with america's wild horses and the issues they are facing so you get a little bit of everything you get the love the surprise the heartbreak the issues all in one little movie
Ashley WinchHOST
20:29
And all about the most darling blue roan you've ever seen.
Suzanne RoyGUEST
52:26
It's increased 200%.
Suzanne RoyGUEST
52:29
The way that we found, the way I got involved is that I saw Claire Staples, who's the founder of Sky Dog Sanctuary.
Suzanne RoyGUEST
52:36
which has rescued hundreds of horses from BLM horses from the slaughter pipeline.
Suzanne RoyGUEST
52:42
I saw her posting on social media about this dramatic increase in the numbers of horses, BLM horses and burros she was seeing in the kill pens.
Jamie BaldanzaGUEST
19:52
To get this out there, especially with that New York Times article, but Blue Zeus is a wild horse from Wyoming who was rounded up and separated from his family.
Jamie BaldanzaGUEST
20:04
And then Claire Staples of Sky Dog made it her mission to... to, you know, save Blue Zeus or adopt him and then go and actually find his family, which is no easy feat.
Jamie BaldanzaGUEST
20:17
She got lucky because it was during the pandemic.
Jamie BaldanzaGUEST
20:20
So they didn't really have a lot of time to move horses around.
Brandi CyrusHOST
35:18
And if you're interested at all to s- hear more about that, and the roundups, and just all of the issues with it, and what needs to happen to protect the horses, I would highly suggest watching this documentary.
Brandi CyrusHOST
35:29
Claire does an amazing job of, um, explaining it and also, uh, you know, h- having you get to know these wild horses.
Brandi CyrusHOST
35:37
Like, she, she and her group have studied every single herd.
Brandi CyrusHOST
35:42
They know every single thing about every horse and every family group.
Brandi CyrusHOST
35:44
It's very cool, um, and very beautiful.
Brandi CyrusHOST
35:47
So, uh, if you are interested at all in that, I would say go watch that on Amazon Prime.
Wells AdamsHOST
35:52
When a wild stallion and his family are captured from Wyoming's Red Desert by the US government, Claire Staples must fight a broken bureaucratic system in attempt to rescue them from a shockingly inhumane and inherently corrupt system.
Wells AdamsHOST
36:09
Blue Zeus.
Caroline CulbertsonHOST
0:56
These horses are federally protected from slaughter, but the Times traced government-branded mustangs through a system in which some horses are sold by the government for as little as $25, lose those federal protections, and ultimately end up in the slaughter pipeline.
Caroline CulbertsonHOST
1:13
And one of the people featured in that reporting is the woman you're about to hear from, Clare Staples.
Caroline CulbertsonHOST
1:19
Clare is the founder and president of Skydog Sanctuary, a sprawling multi-site haven for America's wild horses and burros, and Clare's work has been featured by The New York Times, the BBC, Washington Post, and many others.
Caroline CulbertsonHOST
1:32
And she's become one of the most recognizable advocates for wild horses caught in this incredibly complicated system of roundups, government holding facilities, adoption, and sale.
Caroline CulbertsonHOST
4:28
I also trimmed off a little bit of our conversation at the beginning so that we could just dive right into Clare's experience.
Caroline CulbertsonHOST
4:34
So I just wanted to make note of that in case it sounds a little different than your usual Horse Person content.
Caroline CulbertsonHOST
4:38
So here is our conversation with Clare Staples of Skydog Sanctuary.
Clare StaplesGUEST
4:44
[dramatic music] The whole thing of Skydog came about because I had one horse, Elvis, at a barn in, it's called Sunset Ranch, and it's up Beachwood Canyon-

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