The two llamas that led authorities on a chase through Sun City, Arizona, late last month now have the attention of federal officials.
According to the llamas' owners, Bub Bullis and Karen Freund, the U.S. Department of Agriculture took issue with the fact that they did not have the proper license to showcase the therapy animals. Freund said the USDA has not responded to her calls asking to resolve the matter, as everything has to be in writing, so she and Bullis are giving up for the time being.
"They just totally destroyed everything I had planned for my retirement," Freund, who was unaware of the license, told The Guardian. The two said they previously brought the llamas to schools without any issues.
“If this opens up a can of worms where everybody across the country gets shut down doing this, that’s really unfair,” Freund said. “That’s really a horrible thing to do to people who benefit from them.”
Bullis and Freund, who are retired Phoenix police officers, had planned to continue offering the llamas as therapy animals.
Still, the post-fugitive lives of Kahkneeta (white llama) and Laney (black llama) are looking pretty sweet. Bullis and Freund, who began raising llamas nine years ago and currently own nine, plan to move to a farm in Chino Valley, and take their notorious pets with them.