If they’ll murder a harmless squirrel for no reason, do you really think they won’t kill you and your family if given even half the chance?
P’nut the Squirrel, of internet fame, has been euthanized after the pet was seized by New York state earlier this week, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation. The seven-year-old gray rescue squirrel, commonly referred to as “P’Nut” on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok, was put to death, along with Fred the raccoon, so that the animals could be tested for the presence of rabies, according to a statement from the agency obtained by WETM.
The DEC claims that P’nut, who was notably docile and friendly over the course of his very public facing life, bit one of the investigators on the hand while being confiscated from his Elmira home on Wednesday.
“In addition, a person involved with the investigation was bitten by the squirrel. To test for rabies, both animals were euthanized. The animals are being tested for rabies and anyone who has been in contact with these animals is strongly encouraged to consult their physician,” the DEC statement read, according to WETM.
P’nut was rescued by guardian Mark Longo, after the Connecticut native witnessed P’Nut’s mother hit by a car.
It was a pair of Karens who were responsible for murdering P’nut and Fred. One is the woman from Texas, Monica Keasler, who repeatedly called in the complaint to the New York police because she saw a video of a squirrel on the Internet. I’m not sure if this is a more damning indictment of women or of the Internet, but either way, it’s a demonstration of how the combination of the two is absolutely horrific for civilized society.
How on Earth can you possibly imagine that what is happening in New York is any business of yours whatsoever? Home Owners Associations are bad enough, but expanding the concept of curtain-twitching to the globe really strikes one as a tremendously bad, to say nothing of Orwellian-on-steroids, concept.
And, of course, the just-following-procedure police officer, a literal Karen named Karen Pryzklek, ordered a raccoon put down due to an obviously unfounded suspicion that a squirrel defending itself might, in theory, have rabies, would just as readily follow an order from her superiors to napalm an entire neighborhood.
