The New York man whose pet alligator Albert was confiscated by state officials warns animal owners they could be coming for you next after a squirrel rescuer’s beloved buddy P’Nut was just seized, too — and killed.
“I think there’s a bigger plan behind all this,” Tony Cavallaro told The Post on Sunday. “They’re going after innocent people to see how far they can get away with us.”
Cavallaro said he was horrified when he heard about the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s treatment of P’Nut, a rehabilitated squirrel who was kept as a pet by New Yorker Mark Longo.
The agency stormed Longo’s Pine City house Wednesday and seized the animal along with his pet raccoon Fred. The DEC said it had to kill the wild pets to test them for rabies because they had been interacting closely with humans.