Mark Longo and his wife filed a lawsuit against state Department of Environmental Conservation and other agencies for the ...

New York officials issued a mea culpa Friday over the seizure and slaughter of beloved P’Nut the squirrel — but the months-late apology isn’t washing with the tragic rodent's bereaved ...

P’Nut the squirrel did not have rabies, tests show, after he was seized from his owners and decapitated. The animal became a symbol of government overreach to supporters after being taken from ...

Google Trends P’nut’s origin story. In 2017, Longo took P’nut, an eastern gray squirrel, into his home after witnessing a car hit the baby squirrel’s mother.

So Longo decided to bring P’Nut back to his home and bottle-feed him for eight months. That’s when he claims he released the squirrel into his Pine City, NY, backyard, only for the critter to ...

The squirrel's death sparked so much outrage that it prompted a state lawmaker to propose legislation to improve animal-rights statutes, calling the bill "Peanuts Law: Humane Animal Protection Act." ...

P’nut, an Instagram-famous squirrel that was seized and euthanized by New York state and entered the political fray before the election, was negative for rabies, state officials said Tuesday.

P’Nut, a pet squirrel with a popular Instagram page, was seized by state government officials on Wednesday in Pine City, N.Y., and later euthanized to test for rabies.

P’Nut, a gray squirrel who also went by Peanut, was seized on Oct. 30 from his home in Pine City, following complaints about wildlife being kept without the necessary permits.