- Maryland, USA -
The Baltimore County Police Department's Cockeysville Precinct is investigating after a 22-year-old llama named Skippy was found beaten so badly that had to be euthanized.
On the morning of Sunday, September 11, 2022, Mrs. Holly Callahan-Kasmala went to check on her trio of llamas and two alpacas on her farm that she co-owns with her husband Pete, on Beckleysville Road in Millers.
Mrs. Callahan-Kasmala told CBS Baltimore that she found Skippy lying in an unusual spot and she immediately knew that something was wrong.
She explained: “Even from that distance, I could see the pulse in his neck. I could see how high his respiration was.”
The veterinarian who was called to the scene determined that Skippy had three broken legs, two of which had compound fractures. No bite or claw marks were found on Skippy’s body.
The vet humanely euthanized Skippy.
Mrs. Callahan-Kasmala believes a person or multiple people made their way onto the farm and broke Skippy’s legs intentionally. She did not find any signs of a predator entering the farm and said: “If a pack of coyotes or a bear had gone after him, there would be bites.”
According to The Baltimore Sun, Mrs. Callahan-Kasmala said “it appeared that human hands had unscrewed the screw eyes that secure stall guards inside the couple’s horse barn. She says she believes that either someone broke Skippy’s legs either as a deliberate act of cruelty, or a group of intoxicated young people decided to beat up the llama.”
An extremely emotional Mrs. Callahan-Kasmala said: “He dragged himself to the barn with broken legs, essentially. The thing that haunts me is that this happened during the night and I didn't find him until the next morning, and he suffered with this all night. I don't understand how anyone could do that to an animal and then leave them there in agony. No one deserves that.”
She added that Skippy was a rescue and she had had him for 18 years.
“He took care of the alpacas. He was like their uncle. They're very upset, they're traumatized and they do look for him, they call for him… It's extremely, it's heartbreaking,” she also said.
If you have any information about this barbaric crime, please contact the Baltimore County Police Department's Cockeysville Precinct at (410) - 877 - 1820. Thank you!
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