The Riverside County sheriff is investigating an intrusion involving the release of llamas and emus at an exotic farm in Perris, CA.  Apparently on New Year’s Day, a fence was cut allowing animals to escape. Subsequently when rounded up between twenty and thirty llamas were missing.

Previously animal rights activists had claimed that the livestock on the facility was abused although investigations failed to reveal any evidence of maltreatment according to the Riverside County Animal Services Department.

It is noted that the Perris area is involved in the twenty-month ongoing Newcastle disease outbreak.  Obviously animal activists breaking into facilities are certainly not going to observe biosecurity procedures. This represents a risk to any commercial farms that may receive the attention of what may be regarded as domestic agricultural terrorists.