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A squirrel named Peanut, who has amassed hundreds of thousands of societal media followers, was seized by New York authorities authorities Oct. 30, according to its owner, Mark Longo.
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A viral squirrel named Peanut is successful a spot of a pickle.
The online sensation—who has amassed an assemblage of implicit 536,000 Instagram followers and much than 424,000 followers connected Facebook—was seized by New York’s authorities Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Oct. 30, his proprietor Mark Longo said connected societal media.
“The NY State DEC showed up to my location and took Peanut,” helium wrote connected Instagram. “He was TAKEN to [be] EUTHANIZED.”
“For the past 7 years, Peanut has been my champion friend,” Longo continued. “He’s been the halfway of my satellite and galore of yours for truthful long, I don’t cognize however to process this, emotionally.”
The critter amassed an net pursuing implicit the years with amusing videos specified arsenic performing tricks, modeling miniature fashions and eating waffles, among different quirky activities.
A spokesperson for the DEC told the Associated Press they began investigating the concern pursuing “multiple reports from the nationalist astir the perchance unsafe lodging of wildlife that could transportation rabies and the amerciable keeping of wildlife arsenic pets.”
However, the DEC did not corroborate whether Peanut had been euthanized.
Officials besides seized a raccoon named Fred, per the quality outlet. Longo, who operates a wildlife structure called P’Nuts Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary, said Fred was injured and would beryllium returned to the chaotic aft being rehabilitated.
Instagram/Peanut the Squirrel
“It has been a unspeakable nightmare for me,” helium told the AP successful a telephone interview, “but we inactive person 300 animals to instrumentality attraction of.”
Longo—who has started a GoFundMe leafage to money his ineligible combat to reclaim Peanut—also said helium was alert that owning a chaotic carnal without a licence is against New York authorities law, but said helium was successful the process of obtaining paperwork to certify the favored arsenic an “education animal.”
“If we’re not pursuing the rules, usher america successful the close absorption to travel the rules, you know?” helium said. “Let america cognize what we request to bash to person Peanut successful the location and not person to interest astir him getting taken.”
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