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Owner Finds 3 Llamas Dead In Back Yard (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=320&e=1&u=/kprc/20050719/lo_kprc/2833076)

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A Montgomery County man is looking for an animal killer who shot two of his baby llamas and might have caused another llama to die, Local 2 reported Monday in an exclusive story.

Brian Bennick found the llamas dead in the back yard of his Magnolia home on Saturday.

"It is pretty aggravating and pretty sick," Bennick told Local 2.

Bennick told Local 2 that someone broke into his back yard on Saturday. The intruder locked his horse in the same pen as the donkey and shot two baby llamas in the head.

"You got it here right at the top of the head in between the eyes and the ears ? same with the other one. Her exit wound was on her back leg. The other one was a lot heavier and didn't have an exit wound," Bennick told Local 2.

Bennick said the intruder also placed a pit bull inside a pen with eight other llamas that his family showed at county fairs.

The pit bull killed one of the llamas.

"When he leaned his head down you could see where the dog actually lashed into him on the side and pulled the meat from his jawbone," Bennick told Local 2.

The owner said he was forced to shoot the pit bull and that he hung it on his fence.

Bennick's wife explained to a neighbor why her husband hung the animal's corpse on the fence.

"That dog came after my husband after it just killed a 400-pound animal," Kim Bennick said.

Local 2 asked Bennick if he thought his neighbors liked seeing a dead dog hanging on his fence.

"No. It's about the same way I feel about seeing a dead llama," Bennick said.

Rare breeds of llamas can net owners more than $200,000 each.

Bennick told Local 2 that he believes one of his neighbors killed the llamas and is offering up a $500 reward to get his neighbors talking.