The owners of P’Nut the squirrel, Mark Longo and Daniela Bittner, have filed a notice of claim against the state of New York following their pets being taken and killed by the state Environmental Conservation officers.
On October 30, Environmental Conservation officials invaded the home of Longo, seized his pet Squirrel P'Nut and his domesticated pet raccoon, Fred, and killed the animals.
The incident set social media on fire with outrage. Now, it seems the incident will be heading to a courthouse.
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“The government is not going to get away with this,” Longo said in a social media video late last month. “Justice will be served for not only Fred and P’Nut – but for animals moving forward. We will show the world it is not okay to overstep boundaries.”
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Mark Longo says justice is coming and he is ready to take on the state of New York.
Longo and his partner Daniela Bittner filed a notice, stating their… pic.twitter.com/zaDzrzdjw9
Longo and Bittner operate an animal rescue. They had trained the squirrel and it had been their pet for over seven years.
It seems the long arm of government overreach reached out for the squirrel, got its hand bit, and the animals had to be killed as part of the rabies testing.
But The New York Post has reported information that would indicate the story is not that simple.
A newly revealed timeline shows state officials advised the county to euthanize the pets a full seven days before they were taken from their unofficial caretaker Mark Longo on Oct. 30 — even though the Department of Environmental Conservation later said the squirrel bit an agent during the raid, sparking the need for the test.
“Wildlife cannot be confined like domestic animals, and if there was an exposure, the animals would need to be tested for rabies,” the State Department of Health wrote the county on Oct. 23 — a message that all but sealed the animals’ fates, as rabies tests require decapitation so subjects’ heads can be opened and their brains sampled.
"You will get a lot of information moving forward and it is going to shock all of you," Longo says.
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