🐴We are the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group. We manage, document, and keep track of these cherished wild horses with love and care, but also with scientific precision. We work under contract with the State of Arizona.

📷This is a screenshot from our database app of Violet. She is missing from Silver’s band and we suspect that she may be the dead horse shown in DJmuleskinners’ publicly posted video. In that video, from the position of her body, she looks like she died in agony.

😠Unfortunately, our request for the location was deleted from the video, and instead used to spread libel about our organization calling us narcicists, yet all we did was ask one polite question? We responded by making a public post asking anyone who had also seen the carcass to contact us. So far, we have received no information, but we saw a few questions from his followers of why we even need to know. We’d like to answer that.

📓Every wild horse in this herd is documented in our database app from birth till death. Each horse has its own individual file containing its date of birth, parentage, family band, reproductive history, health history, record of location and identifying characteristics.

🐎The horses have no microchips or tracking devices, they roam wild on 19,000 acres. Every piece of information in our database has been collected through thousands of hours of field observations by our volunteers, creating a continuous dataset spanning more than 25 years.

🔥Right now, those same volunteers are out in the Arizona heat searching for this horse, because they care about what happened to a beloved mare, and because every mortality is an important scientific data point.

💔We want to determine whether this horse died of natural causes, disease, traumatic injury, predation, environmental hazards, or even foul play. We will also collect DNA samples and add this horse’s final chapter to its permanent record.

🥼The cause of death helps us monitor herd health, identify emerging threats, detect disease, assess predation, etc. DNA samples preserve the herd’s genetic record, confirm family relationships, and strengthen the long-term scientific record of this herd.

💻When a horse dies without being found or examined, we lose that valuable information that helps us understand, protect, and responsibly manage this historic wild horse herd.
That is why our volunteers continue searching, even in extreme Arizona heat.

🌄A carcass on 19,000 acres, where every trail looks the same—even when you know the area extremely well—is worse than looking for a needle in a haystack. Even a general location would help tremendously.

💕To thousands of Arizonans, every Salt River wild horse matters. Every life adds to the story of this remarkable herd. There are not many places left like this.

✍️Our documentation doesn’t make this herd less wild, and they are not “pets” because they have names. Our documentation and communication with the public, makes them the best studied, best managed, and best loved herd in the country.

That is why it matters.

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If anyone has information about the location of this horse, please call or text our hotline at 480-868-9301.

Thank you. SRWHMG.