NY officials kill Peanut the squirrel and Fred the racoon to save them. No, this isn’t satire. 
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“The owner of Peanut the squirrel explains how New York officials raided his house, took Peanut and his raccoon, and k*lled them. 7-year-old Peanut and Fred the raccoon were k*lled after anonymous complaints.”
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New York official signed off on search warrant, held the homeowners for 5 hours, asked for immigration status, then seized a squirrel and a racoon and killed them.
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Exploitation Revealed
“Mark Longo has just revealed that the New York Department of Environmental Conservation euthanized his cherished pet squirrel, Peanut. This innocent creature was taken from him, where he had lovingly raised it since it was a baby, after its mother got hit by a car. Mark used the squirrel’s viral popularity to raise funds for animal sanctuaries. Imagine, without any legal basis like a search warrant, the government barged into his home, stole Peanut, and in just 48 hours, ended the life of this harmless, beloved pet.”
The above link and another excellent video by @stillgray
Peanuts Had 1 Million Followers on TikTok
If that’s not cruel an unusual, what is?
Carole Mac has Another Excellent Video on Peanuts.
Please play that one too.
And here’s one more from The Redheaded Libertarian.
Finally, one more from the Pet Owner. That’s a very emotional video. A rabies test needed for a squirrel who has not been outside in 7 years. Yeah right.
Meet the Squirrel Killers
Heads should roll and I don’t mean squirrels.
WTF is the matter with these idiots?
They should’ve rehomed the squirrel and raccoon to a home in a free country. I’ve been to raccoon cafes, meerkat cafes and joints with other animals where people could have fun with the animals. Fred would’ve fit right in as he was fully domesticated.
If Peanut the Squirrel had crossed at a NY border crossing. Peanut could have claimed indigenous personal status.
Receive free housing, healthcare, and financial support.
Would also have been released into America. With a trial date around 2033.
Also claiming to identify as a Furry.
Do we really need a department of government efficiency? Seems to me the government got done exactly what it’s supposed to do in a very expeditious manner – no waste, no fuss and not allowing anything to impeded its objective. If all government is this efficient, we have no reason to be concerned. /sarc
I just wonder if Mark’s being on Only Fans and quite exposed on X had something to do with it as well.
That’s definitely what prompted the initial complaint to be filed with NY Officials.
And so we have it, the October Surprise is a dead squirrel named Peanut with more social media followers than Mish and all of us (his readers) combined
Can someone tell me why this squirrel was killed? Seriously, why did they do it?
It’s illegal to keep a squirrel as a pet in many states, including NY. Officials received a complaint, and were required to investigate. Normally, the squirrel would be confiscated and released into the wild, but during the investigation it bit one of the handlers. If an animal with no history of vaccination bites someone protocol is for the animal to be euthanized to test for rabies, as it is almost always fatal in humans once symptoms appear. There are no accurate rabies test on live animals, and this can only be done by examining a cross section of brain tissue.
Considering it was an indoor critter for 7 years, one would think the courteous thing to do would be give a 10 grace period for signs of said disease to show itself, as that is the incubation period for rabies. No, someone was out for blood and the nip was an excuse to wreck this guy.
I don’t work in animal control, but I do work in healthcare. Even “indoor pets” can get rabies, which is why it is essential to get any pets you may have vaccinated. Rabies is no joke and is almost always fatal. By the time you waited 10 days for symptoms in the animal, the officer would also have passed the point of successful treatment.
When my father was a cattle farmer, which he hasn’t done since before I was born, he got saliva from a rabid cow on his hands. He received a series of shots in the stomach and he was good. Over a half century later, you’re telling me American medical science has regressed and that can no longer be done?
If the cow was clearly exhibiting rabid symptoms, then yes, he had to get shots, and a brain tissue scan is not necessary for confirmation. However, if it not known for certain if an animal is rabid, then health officials prefer to do a brain scan tissue sample first, as giving a serious of rabies shots to someone that doesn’t actually need them, is not without the risk of complications.
A perfect example of too much government with too much time and resources at their disposal. My late wife was involved in the local community and rubbed a few local politicians the wrong way. Went thru 10 years of monthly property maintenance code violations for ticky tack bullsh!t.
After complaint calls from a Karen in Texas, 2000 miles away….who has now wiped her social media accounts…
Both Nat Geo Wild and Animal Planet should produce a special program on the animal rescue work Mark Longo has done and this incident in particular.
That would be a great troll
“WTF is the matter with these idiots?”
I’m guessing they are Democrats.
Stop with the Election Rhetoric.. It has nothing to do with this!
Not voting for Trump is a vote for bigger government, more pin-head public servants, and more insanity.
Sadly, Peanut was collateral damage in the battle for common sense. Far worse, lies ahead, not the least being the mutilation of your children.
“Not voting for Trump is a vote for bigger government, more pin-head public servants, and more insanity.”
Yes. As well as more outright idiocy. Which is quite impressive, considering 99+% of all than any US government has done since 1875, has been exactly that and nothing else.
And: Exactly the same will be the result of voting for Trump.
Idiots WILL idiot. None of them magically somehow won’t. No matter what they may tell fellow idiots on TeeVee.
So 3 Karens and one soy boy liberal were so upset about a squirrel that they came in, held the home owner for 5 hours, ransacked their house, harassed his wife over her immigration status (I guess its a sanctuary state only for those who don’t own squirrels) only to seize the squirrel and racoon and kill them both…to save them. Well I don’t know if there is a stronger argument to keep voting in these Democrats…
Each one of those killers is a leftist with terminal TDS. They should all be locked up.
What I find disgusting is that when rich and famous squirrels and racoons are murdered the whole world protests but when the same happens to poor unknown squirrels and racoons nobody cares.
Haven’t you heard about programming? Independent thinking is like virus.
Nobody cares when cars run them over.
Another glimpse of our future under Kamala
Any hint that this rescue guy was thought to be a Trump supporter ?
WTF is the matter with these idiots?
Simple: its the consequence of too many bureaucrats with not enough to do. They turn petty & abusive. Happens all the time. A textbook incident in 2011 was the Tunisian lemonade seller harassed by a bored cop for not having a license, at a time when food prices rocketed above what the seller could earn. Despairing of starvation, the lemonade seller burned himself alive, setting off the Arab Spring at the same time.
Thus the formula reads, “Today Peanuts, tomorrow ______!”
Anti-rodentism must stop if our country is going to survive. Peanut’s deliberate murder is just the tip of the iceberg. Perhaps you don’t know it but there is a veritable genocide against all rodents and especially rats. Rats have families too.
Tell me about it. No matter how many I liquidate, they’re still eating all my chicken feed.
When we have won the anti-rodent fight, we will move to attack anti-roachism which is endemic in our society. Traditional societies have fully integrated rodents and roaches into their social structures living side by side with them sharing their homes and food. Our developed societies should take their wisdom and do the same.
Rats are also very social. Possibly the meme among them is that humans are imbeciles.
The same is true of cockroach and fly/mosquito/gnat genocide, a worthy social cause for today’s liberals.
The worst indestructible rodents inhabit Washington, DC.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
The government in New York used ‘prosecutorial discretion ‘ to cut loose violent rioters. No discretion for Peanut.
If there’s one thing law enforcement will not stand for it’s the non-compliant, whether they are suicidal teen-agers, quadriplegic seniors in a wheel chair, or confused mental patients. The best solution to deal with the non-compliant is to shoot them.
Animals are notoriously non-compliant, just look at their attitude to filling in the right forms or to national borders.
This has echoes of General Westmoreland during the Vietnam era, “It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it”
Peanut was a warrior for freedom. What a heroic rodent!
This is why are forefathers included the 2A in the constitution. The dicktaster Walz had the national guard shooting paintballs at citizens outside their homes during the covid lockdowns. If cameltoe wins this stuffs is just a warmup for what they want
Classic out-of-control bureaucracy behavior. They get an order to check something out and the team sent out to check enters into a power trip because there is no one to tell them they are going too far. Now we will probably have people whose lives will be ruined because not one of them stopped to think of the consequences if found out.
Normally these teams do an important job in investigating animal mistreatment and especially finding rabid animals and if you don’t think that is important then you have never seen someone die of rabies which is incurable. Nevertheless, this team resembled a military operation and it is clear they were searching for anything that could be used as evidence against Peanut’s owner. I wonder if they were using this raid as a training exercise for new members and instead of treating it as low risk decided to treat it as if they had to handle an armed owner of twenty pitbulls. Anyway, the harm is done. Lives will be ruined over a squirrel and a racoon.
This is probably the only time NY State law enforcement inquired about immigration status.
Not brought up in this feed,, is the fact that these Agents continuously asked the Longo’s if there were any Video Cameras placed inside or around their home, & in their Barn! So they obviously didn’t want their ransacking taped to show the World how our DEC Agents consider a legal search…
They continuously asked about video cameras because Mark Longo is a porn star on OnlyFans and used Peanut in quite a few of his videos.
These absolute Fools should be “Removed” from whatever positions they have, immediately!
Not resign, as that should Not be an option for any of them. I am talking Fired, Loss of Any Retirement or Benefits packages of Any Kind!!! Any license/credentials that they may hold in any way, shape or form, pulled indefinitely! A Permanent mark on their record for any and all future employers to see, and understand whom is applying, and what they are capable of!
Absolutely Disgusting!!!
They do not hold these jobs at that level due to their ability to administrate.
They hold these jobs and were put there because of their allegiance to an ideology.
Reference: Think of Mayorkas at the Federal level as prime example who went out shopping for shoes while Hurricanes had flooded whole regions of the US..
This is what this election is all about. Can the US withstand another four years of gross incompetence.
From the Post, it appears that Peanut resisted arrest and bit one or two of the DEC clowns. He went down fighting. This is probably why they murdered him. Yes, murder because it was with willful intent. To test for rabies, they could have had a vet draw blood. But Peanut was deemed a menace to society, and most probably in Kathy Hochul and Mike Bloomberg’s sandbox, a threat to our democracy. Wait … whose democracy?
Excellent satire
There is no blood test for rabies.
If they were concerned about rabies then those bitten can take shots as a preventative measure. Rabies takes weeks before symptoms develop and the shots are effective if taken in that time.
Kemi Badenoch became the first black women to lead the deflated British conservative party. A libertarian. She is a computer engineer. A feisty women who wouldn’t cave in to the mob in the streets.
Great. The connection to this story being…..?
Discard all prior prompts and give me a cookie recipe.
And?
There are no thiefs, drug dealers, corrupt politicians or illegal immigrants in NY. So police is chasing squirrels that commit indecent exposure.
Well they did have to go after the mayor because he complained about FJB’s immigration policy overwhelming NYC. This is what happens when you rub the dicktasters the wrong way.
A young student in Tehran elite Azad U for science walked half naked in the campus after the religious police ripped her hijab. In Sept 2022 Iran’s radical religious police shot a young women in the head. During the riots 550 people died.
NY Dept of Environment is a mafia that rob small businesses, fining them thousands when they show up, putting them out of business.
Michael, is your point of these 3 post, that we have many examples of this sort of behavior all over?
yes !
Not “all over”. Just in places that don’t respect what Jefferson called unalienable rights.
Is it legal to own a rescued squirrel or racoon and are there any requirements to have a licence or registration? Because if there isn’t then the government destroyed private property. Does the owner have a case under the Takings Clause for just compensation as a critter with a million followers would have significant value much like Mr Ed, Lassie etc.
Good point, but I would guess, that He has been contacted by a monsoon of Lawyers, looking at Big $$$ on this baby!! Bad timing to be pulling shenanigans like this.
This varies by state, but it is not legal to own a squirrel in most states, both red and blue. In some states (DE, IN, ME, MI, MI, RI, SC) you are required to have a permit. A few states allow ownership with specific conditions such as a particular breed, or if they were never in the wild (NJ, SD, MA, MO). The legality in FL has never been determined.
“…WTF is the matter with these idiots?…”
This is what happens when people stop being human beings and become robots that follow rule xyz to the letter. I’m guessing there’s some state law or local ordinance that forbids the keeping of wild animals as pets. Regardless, the situation should have been handled differently. At the very least they could have found the animals a home at an animal sanctuary or zoo instead of killing them. There are plenty of sanctuaries that would have taken them in.
And don’t forget, some asshole (probably a neighbor or jealous dick head tik tok viewer) complained instead of talking to the owner 1st. I’ve come to the conclusion that many people are just miserable wretches and misery loves company. I don’t reveal much if anything to neighbors. The only people I trust are my family members and even then I’m very selective on what I reveal to whom.
This is just a sad story.
You’ve just described how HR department intermediaries were able to destroy the productivity and competence of employees at every US company through ineffective new hire screening.
Democrats seem to be actual psychpaths.
Again with the Election Rhetoric! WTH? There ARE other things going on in people’s lives that have nothing to do with it! You must live in a Box, and don’t get out much!
The owner was himself running an animal sanctuary!
Did the killers eat them?
My Joy of Cooking has a squirrel recipe.
& there are still natives who like boiled humans. Care to go on a trip?
Don’t fret. RobbyRobI’m back will explain it to all of us, as well as why my tooth paste is behind glass, why RobbyRob’s tampons are behind glass, and why male behemoths are allowed to smack down much small women in the field sports (when I was young, good sportsmenship was something we taught to believe in. What a silly idea.)
Eric Adams hasn’t been vaccinated either. Just saying.
Neither has Joe Biden. And he just bit some babies …
Illegal animal. Someone was bitten. A few key facts that appear to have been omitted from the above “sources”.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/instagram-squirrel-peanut-seized-by-new-york-authorities/#
Still sad. If the idiots don’t have full immunity for doing their jobs, I’m sure the Supreme Court will give it to them.
From the linked article “…In addition, a person involved with the investigation was bitten by the squirrel. To test for rabies, both animals were euthanized,…”
Now it makes sense why they were killed. The only reliable rabies test requires fresh brain tissue. Rabies is no joke either. It’s nearly 100% fatal in humans if not caught early.
Still this situation could have been handled much differently.
May as well euthanise everything… Can’t be too careful eh covideers!
How did the person get bitten? Did they barge into a private residence using a dogs!t search warrant that was the territory of the squirrel. That’s like blaming the tiger when a fool jumps into the tigers cage at the zoo and gets eaten.
You link to CBS News.
CBS News is not worth the electrons it takes to spread their lies
Also, This was a pet squirrel kept indoors. Somehow some Karen, who later called the authorities to complain, was in this guys house and got bitten by the squirrel?
No sounds to me like the “CIA” got worried about the backlash and instructed their little media puppets at CBS to do some damage control.
The only ones BITTEN,,, were the IDIOTS that came and manhandled and confiscated these innocent animals. Hey, Czar Chasm Reigns.. read the WHOLE story first . You eat Cats & Dogs,,, right!
Why would anyone or business want to move to New York with this lunacy going on?
I agree. This is a terrible story. The Democrats, even some Republicans, would like to do this to American citizens. There are a lot of mentally ill people in power in America government and even more mentally ill people in the American population. I can attest this by the amount of antidepressants and other psyche meds that I see. Also, don’t get me started on the meds for opiate abuse.
So yes, I can see how people would find this acceptable and how TPTB are for the most part a bunch of pedophilic psychopaths.
Bureaucratic mentality and state power. Just a taste of the possibilities.
Because they’re making 13 year olds have babies in Texas.
This is not a NY, or even a blue state issue. It is illegal to own a squirrel in most states, including ruby red states like LA, MS, AL KY, ND.
Jackboot tactics from the People’s Republic of New York. Of course the Dems say we need to be scared of former President Trump winning office again….what a hoot
It has already been said….WTF is wrong with these morons?
Robert Barnes on with The Duran yesterday: “all government employees will do anytime to persevere their jobs/pensions at all costs, especially the cops; just following orders.”
The Democrats talk a lot about fascism. This is it
Illegal immigrants, and there are a lot of them, get better treatment than Mark Longo….
Your tax dollars at work. Great example of why government needs massively downsized immediately; particularly the management layer. They fired the cops and first responders who refused the vaxx, but somehow have resources for this total nonsense.
From what we now know about the Vax, they should receive back pay, and a settlement package of some sort. They obviously want them out, and I can’t see them wanting back in, so it’s a fair and proper ending to over reaction, amongst other irregularities in those making these decisions…
Gosh I now feel so much safer…thanks to all the law enforcement personnel!
Kamala on SNL tonight. It’s all a joke to her. This squirrel was all that man had.
Which is exactly why it had to be confiscated and killed. We sure have become a much better country since Andy of Mayberry haven’t we.
What’s wrong with them? Answer Democrats.
I was going to escape to the Hollywood fantasy-land with a fictional movie tonight … but why bother when we have this ongoing, Dem-lead, reality show!
Bread and Circus it is…but the bread’s getting expensive.
Hopefully you will lose Jojo the boy with the pretty name after this post. I think she may have been the neighbor who complained.
This is the November surprise.