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Days aft societal media prima Peanut the squirrel was seized by New York authorities authorities alongside a raccoon named Fred, some animals were confirmed to person been euthanized by authorities.
By Will Reid Nov 02, 2024 1:04 AMTags
Peanut the Squirrel Euthanized by New York Authorities Per Owner
Fans are saying goodbye to Peanut the squirrel and Fred the raccoon.
Two days aft the animals’ owner, Mark Longo, said they had been seized by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), the bureau confirmed to NBC News that the critters had been euthanized to trial for rabies.
The animals were taken Oct. 30 aft DEC officials learned they were “sharing a residence with humans, creating the imaginable for quality vulnerability to rabies,” the bureau said successful a associated connection with the Chemung County Department of Health. The connection besides said Peanut spot 1 of the officials progressive successful the investigation.
The DEC began looking into the animals’ surviving concern aft it received “multiple reports from the nationalist astir the perchance unsafe lodging of wildlife that could transportation rabies and the amerciable keeping of wildlife arsenic pets,” the bureau said successful a connection to the Associated Press.
Longo, who operates a wildlife structure called P’Nuts Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary, tearfully reacted to the quality connected societal media alongside his wife, Dani.
“It is with profound sorrow that we stock the heartbreaking news,” they wrote connected Peanut’s Instagram page Nov. 1. “Despite our passionate outcry for compassion, the bureau chose to disregard our pleas, leaving america successful heavy daze and grief… Their lives were precious, and we garbage to judge this nonaccomplishment successful silence.”
He added successful a video, “Peanut was the champion happening to ever hap to us.”
Instagram/Peanut the Squirrel
Longo had been caring for Peanut for 7 years, dating backmost to erstwhile helium said helium saw the squirrel’s parent get deed by a car. Over the years, the duo posted predominant video contented online, amassing a societal media assemblage that included implicit 536,000 followers on Instagram and an further 424,000 followers on Facebook.
Though Longo told the AP he was alert that owning a chaotic carnal without a licence is amerciable successful New York, helium said helium was pursuing paperwork to certify Peanut arsenic an “education animal.”
As for Fred, Longo insisted helium was simply rehabilitating the raccoon pursuing an wounded and planned to merchandise the nocturnal mammal backmost into the wild, the outlet reported.
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