Acting on an alleged anonymous tip, New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation raided internet personality Mark Longo’s home, seized his pet squirrel only to later euthanized the animal.

Mark Longo, a resident of New York City, saved a baby squirrel and has been caring for it at home, naming it Peanut. Peanut gained over 500,000 followers on Instagram and became a viral hit. Unfortunately, someone reported him to the city, leading to a tragic outcome.

Citing a statement by New York authorities, the Associated Press reports the person who reported Longo to authorities claims they were bitten by the squirrel. An assertion which itself is questionable since Peanut was reportedly very people-oriented greeting Longo when he would come home from work, nibble on waffles, jump through hoops, and Mark Longo used the squirrel raise money for animal sanctuaries.

Based on previous reported activities, it is likely, that the informant whose tip resulted in Peanut being euthanized was an animal rights terrorist. For example, during 2014, employees of PETA’s so-called no-kill animal sanctuary out of their Washington D.C. headquarters seized a Virginia family’s pet dog. A year later, members of the French animal rights group Cause Animale du Nord stole a homeless man’s dog. 

In both cases, the seizure of these pets, understandably, caused people to be outraged and the demise of Peanut including Mark Longo’s pet raccoon is also no different. But what makes the culprit who snitched on Mark Longo likely an animal rights terrorist are also the two previous instances of people having their pets confiscated is PETA’s views on pet ownership.

PETA, too, is obsessively risk-averse when it comes to pets. Like hoarders, they believe that most people can’t be trusted with the care of a pet, but rather than keep them under lock and key, PETA simply kills them or advocates for killing them. They, too, are blind to the effects of depriving an animal of its most fundamental right — the right to life.

Considering this reasoning, the previous actions of PETA employees and the motivation of animal rights organizations makes sense including the person who ratted on Mark Longo. People in the animal rights movement believe that most people cannot be trusted to care for pets in a way that aligns with what they think is an animal’s true nature, which includes an animals’ desire for freedom (i.e. liberation).

Consequently, they either send these animals to what they refer to as the big animal shelter in the sky or tell on people in order to destroy their lives and demoralize people for the sin of caring for animals they take on as pets.

Animal rights group’s disdain for humans is so strong that they will have pets euthanized after taking them or having authorities forcibly take pets from their owners. This approach is obviously unethical, but is inherently evil. It’s abundantly clear that animal rights groups prioritize their beliefs not only over the well-being of animals but also humans too (except themselves of course).