ORANGE COUNTY, Fla.,None — Dogs are believed to be the cause of seven farm animals deaths on Colonial High School's campus, deputies said.
The dead farm animals were found in a Colonial High School barn on Monday and Tuesday morning, investigators said.
It's the second day in a row that students have arrived at school and found the animals they cared for dead.
Investigators confirmed that within two days, a total of seven animals were killed.
The surviving animals will spend the night in a secure location, officers said.
Investigators said that two large dogs, possibly German Shepherds, were seen on school property in the past few days. Blood evidence found at the scene, as well as puncture wounds to the dead animals, were consistent with dog bites, investigators said.
"They were like my family. It's like he killed my family," said student Jacob Frick.
Frick said he found his four goats dead Monday morning. He's cared for them since they were born 10 months ago.
Then on Tuesday, students found two rabbits and one sheep dead in the barn on the school's campus.
"It was brutal. They were mutilated," Frick said.
Mike Hunold said he rushed to the school after he got a call from his daughter to pick up the snakes they own and care for on campus.
Colonial High School has a magnet program for agriculture students.
"She comes in school early every morning to feed them, [and] pet them. She found them dead," said Hunold.
Students buy the farm animals, typically in the summer, and raise them during the school year as part of the Future Farmers of America (FFA) program.