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THE ANIMALS WERE MORE THAN JUST PETS. DENI: SUNNIE HOWELL PUT THIS SIGN IN HER FRONT YARD HOPING THAT SOMEONE WILL COME FORWARD WITH INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO HER PIGS >> THESE PIGS WERE HERE TO LOVE PEOPLE AND BE LOVED AND THAT WAS THEIR ONLY JOB, TO BE LOVED. DENI:SUNNIE HOWELL HAD JUST GOTTEN HOME FROM AN ANNIVERSARY DINNER WITH HER HUSBAND WHEN SHE MADE A HEARTBREAKING DISCOVERY >> I WENT TO GIVE THE PIGS A TREAT FROM THE RESTAURANT, AND TWO OF THEM HAD BEEN KILLE DENI: TWO OF HER POTBELLY PIGS, PYGRAWK AND HONEY, WERE DEAD INSIDE OF THEIR SHED. HOWELL BELIEVES THEY HAD BEEN BEATEN. >> WE REALIZED HER EYE SOCKET HAD BEEN SMASHED AND SHE HAD BLOOD COMING OUT OF HER EA IT LOOKED LIKE HE HAD BEEN BLUDGEONED WITH SOMETHING, MAYBE A SLEDGEHAMMER OR SOMETHING. DENI: HER THIRD PIG, GYPSY, WAS NOT HURT. ALL THREE WERE THERAPY PIGS. THEY TRAVELED AROUND TO PROVIDE EMOTIONAL SUPPORT TO PEOPLE IN NEED. >> THEY WENT TO HOSPITALS, THEY WENT TO NURSING HOMES, THEY’VE BEEN TO EVENTS OUT OF TOWN, THE KIDS COME AND SPEND TIME WITH THEM. DENI: HOWELL AND HER FAMILY ARE STILL TRYING TO PROCESS WHAT HAPPENED. >> I JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY SOMEONE WOULD DO THAT. DENI: SHE DOESN’T KNOW WHO IS RESPONSIBLE, BUT HOPES INVESTIGATORS CAN FIND THE PERSON BEHIND THE BRUTAL ATTACK. >> I’D LIKE TO CATCH THE PERSON THAT DID IT. I’M ANGRY. I WANT THEM TO BE PROSECUTED T THE FULLEST EXTENT. DENI: HOWELL SAYS EVEN IF THEY CATCH WHO DID THIS, IT WON’T BRING BACK THE ANIMALS SHE LOVES. >> THE PIGS ARE MORE THAN JUST PETS TO US. THEY DIDN’T DESERVE THAT AT

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A woman in Bullitt County is offering a reward to anyone with information about who killed two of her potbelly pigs. Sunnie Howell said she had just come home from an anniversary dinner with her husband Thursday evening when she made a heartbreaking discovery. "I went to give the pigs a treat from the restaurant, and two of them had been killed," Howell said. The animals, named Pygrawk and Honey, were dead inside their shed in Howell's backyard. Howell said she believes they had been beaten. "We realized her eye socket had been smashed, and she had blood coming out of her ear," she said. "It looked like he had been bludgeoned with something, maybe a sledgehammer or something." A third pig, Gypsy, was not hurt. All three potbellies worked as therapy pigs, traveling around to provide emotional support to people in need, according to Howell."They went to hospitals. They went to nursing homes. They've been to events out of town. The kids come and spend time with them," she said. Howell said she doesn't know who is responsible but hopes investigators can find the person behind the brutal attack. "I'd like to catch the person that did it. I'm angry. I want them to be prosecuted to the fullest extent," Howell said.She filed a report with the Bullitt County Sheriff's Office, which told WLKY it's a difficult case to investigate. Howell said even if an arrest is made, it won't bring back the animals she loved. "These pigs were here to love people and be loved, and that was their only job: to be loved," she said.Howell has raised more than $1,300 to offer as a reward to anyone with information.