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On the morning of October 30th, 2024, Mark Longo was doing what he does most mornings.

He was at his animal sanctuary on a farm in upstate New York, feeding these several

hundred horses and goats and pygmy donkeys he's rescued, many of which Pianna's wife have

saved from the slaughterhouse. So where were you when the raid began? So I was at the end of the

driveway in the beginning. That is when Mark saw something strange and menacing approaching the

property, a convoy of

SUVs with New York state government decals on the door. They're from an agency called the

DEC. What does DEC stand for? Department of Environmental Conservation. One of these

Department of Environmental Conservation officers gets out of the car and tells Mark they'd come to his farm

in order to take somebody into custody. And then he produced a search warrant. But the warrant wasn't

for Mark or his wife or any of the people on the farm. The warrant was for a squirrel named Peanut.

And I remember I got a call off to my wife to say, they're here, hide the animals.

And I tried to buy myself some time to maybe figure out what's going on here.

What was going on here was that Mark's pet squirrel, Peanut, had become one of the most famous squirrels in the world.

Thanks to social media, Peanut had reached the status of animal influencer, yet over a million

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