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ORANGEVALE-

What was a messy situation for about a dozen pigs, and the high school students who take care of them, now has a clean solution.

Early Saturday morning, surveillance cameras at Casa Roble High School captured two people headed toward the Agricultural Department.

“Unfortunately, there are so many ways for people to have access to this back area that things go missing,” Ag instructor Christina Tannehill said.

Nothing was stolen this time, but the pig barn was broken into and the pigs let out of their pens to roam free.  Some were injured from fighting one another.

“For someone to come and mess with our animals just hurts us inside,” student Dianna Fraser said. “It’s not just hurting the animals, but it’s also taking away from our process.”

The students pay for the animals themselves.  This also isn’t the first time the Ag Department has been broken into.  So now the students are raising money to buy and install a surveillance system.

“Things definitely could have been worse,” Fraser said. “That is why we want to prevent the worse, by getting security cameras.”

To contribute to their cause, visit the GoFundMe page that has been set up.