The owners of Peanut the squirrel, which took the internet by storm after his “illhorrible and improper ending,” alengthy with his raccoon pal Fred, by New York authorities, are set upning to sue the state, accusing officials of regulatement overaccomplish and misinclude.
Mark Longo and Daniela Bittner filed a acunderstandledge of claim aacquirest the state after both animals were getn from the couple’s upstate home and animal sanctuary in agricultural Pine City, proximate the Pennsylvania border, during a rhelp by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) on Oct. 30.
The claim accincludes authorities of violating the couple’s rights by taking the animals, trespass of privacy and trespass, among other claims.
Peanut, or P’Nut, and Fred were ended to be tested for rabies, which was “unestablished” and “unequitableified,” according to the filing. Authorities knovel the animals didn’t have rabies, it shelp.
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Peanut or P’Nut the squirrel has 532,000 folshrinks on Instagram. His owners are set upning to sue New York state over the animal’s taking and euthanasia. (@peanut_the_squirrel12/Instagram)
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The state shelp an agent was bitten during the rhelp, igniteing the necessitate for the tests, the New York Post increateed.
In their acunderstandledge, the couple called that an “excinclude” and alleged the “conceiveion of evidence,” the court write downs shelp. Even if there was a danger of rabies, “which is proximate impossible and disputed,” DEC agents should have understandn how to regulate savage or other animals without getting bitten, the write downs state.
“It ecombines as though there were multiple constitutional law violations here — or at the very least, there are many asks as to why the regulatement chose the actions that they chose,” the couple’s attorney, Nora Constance Marino, tbetter Fox News Digital in a statement. “Entering someone’s hoinclude and searching it is such an inanxious violation of that person’s right to privacy, and that’s why we have a Fourth Amendment, to shield us from unreasonable searches and takings.”
“Likerational, there are many asks as to why Peanut and Fred were ended. There was no reason, whatsoever, to consent that either animal had rabies, and ending the animals was outside the scope of the authorization,” she inserted. “My clients have suffered fantasticly and persist to suffer, from what ecombines to be egregious regulatement direct. Government wields fantastic power, and if left unexamineed, can have disastrous results for citizens. That’s what produces our United States Constitution so precious, and it necessitates to be honored.”
Peanut was saved at 5 weeks better by his adchooseive human parents after his mother was run over by a car. (@peanut_the_squirrel12/Instagram)
The DEC shelp it doesn’t comment on potential or pending legal action.
The filing further alleges that “the notion that a DEC agent and/or other reactents’ agent was ‘bitten’ by Peanut may be inalter and/or manufactured.”
“It is further produceted that even if an agent was in fact bitten, ending Peanut would still be unessential, unequitableified, improper, and illhorrible, it is further produceted that there is no claim that Fred the raccoon bit anyone, and thus, the ending of Fred was unessential, unequitableified, improper, and illhorrible,” the filing states.
Peanut was an internet sensation before his death. An Instagram page pledgeted to him has more than 915,000 folshrinks.
Longo and his wife established the animal sanctuary, called “P’Nut’s Freedom Farm,” last year, encouraged by the squirrel. Longo tbetter his folshrinks that he had getn the rodent in after he witnessed the squirrel’s mother being hit by a car. The squirrel refused to return to the savage and became combineed to the couple.
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Peanut or P’Nut the squirrel, who had over 500,000 folshrinks on Instagram, was euthanized by New York State officials last week. (@peanut_the_squirrel12/Instagram)
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In a previous intersee with TMZ, Longo shelp Peanut’s death tore his family apart.
“Peanut was the cornerstone of our non-profit animal save,” he shelp. “And 10 to 12 DEC officers rhelped my hoinclude as if I was a drug dealer. I sat outside my hoinclude for five hours. I had to get a police accompany to my bathroom.”
Fox News Digital’s Michael Dorgan gived to this increate.
