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As of this writing, nearly 25 thousand people have signed the petition, and more than 1,600 people have donated to help the family cover their legal fees to fight to get the squirrel home.
A pet squirrel named Peanut was seized from Mark Longo on Wednesday, October 30th, after anonymous complaints were made to the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) in New York.
The decision to euthanize the squirrel was met with such criticism that Jake Blumencranz, a state lawmaker, proposed legislation to improve animal rights statutes, calling it “Peanut’s Law ...
Longo was driving home from work [citation needed] when he saw the squirrel's mother killed by a car in New York City. [1] [2] A mechanical engineer at the time, [3] Longo sought a shelter for Peanut but was unsuccessful, and he bottle-fed the squirrel for the next eight months before deciding that Peanut should be returned to the wild. [4]
Image credits: peanut_the_squirrel12 Keasler further disclosed that the rumors linking her to the case began when a “lady” from a Facebook group commented that Longo “should have known ...
Squirrel running along utility line A squirrel can disrupt a power system if its body becomes a current path between electrical lines such as those seen here. Electrical disruptions caused by squirrels are common and widespread, and can involve the disruption of power grids.
They are about double the size of the much more common eastern gray squirrel. [4] The males and females are not sexually dimorphic and can be difficult to distinguish in the wild. [5] Southern fox squirrels have a wide variety of color morphs and have been considered to have the widest variety of coloring among the tree squirrels. [4]
Image credits: Peanut The Squirrel Mark and his wife manage the animal sanctuary on their 350-acre property, where they care for various rescued animals, including Peanut, a squirrel they had ...