Peanut the Squirrel was a social media star owned by content creator Mark Longo. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation euthanized Peanut to test for rabies on Nov. 1, 2024.

Black squirrels, while still comparatively rare, are becoming more common throughout the Bay Area. Plus, readers offer their guesses on mystery backyard visitor, and Rachael Ray is helping Muttvill… ...

Black squirrels, I deduced, are the celebrities of the squirrel world. If you see one, you need to talk about it. ... but where humans see a pet, other animals see prey.

Mark Longo, the pets’ owner who had catapulted the squirrel named Peanut to Instagram fame before his demise, told the Associated Press that New York state’s actions “won’t go unheard ...

Russia has a black-market squirrel problem Poachers are swiping squirrels from Moscow parks and reselling the cute, bushy-tailed critters as pets. Amir Yalon. Holly Richmond. Published Feb 10, 2014.