P’Nut can’t rest in peace.
The headless body of the world’s most famous squirrel is currently being held in a refrigerated room somewhere in upstate New York, The Post has learned.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is preserving it as “evidence” from its agents’ harried November raid on a home in Chemung County, where they seized P’Nut the Squirrel and his raccoon pal, Fred, and then euthanized the beloved pets, according to an agency spokesperson.
Their heads were cut off for rabies testing, which proved neither animal was infected with the deadly disease.
Rabies expert says NYS’s own data reveal why it was ‘insane’ to kill, decapitate P’Nut the squirrel
The whereabouts and status of the animals’ actual noggins, meanwhile, are entirely unknown.
A state Department of Health spokesperson refused to confirm the location of their remains or whether the critters had been shipped off to the agency’s Wadsworth Center rabies lab in Slingerlands, citing pending litigation by the animals’ grieving owner, Mark Longo.