P’nut the squirrel has been betrayed by someone, and his owners up north think it was out of jealousy.

Mark and Daniela Longo told The Post on Sunday that they had profited from their furry internet sensation — who helped direct followers to their raunchy OnlyFans page — before he was seized from their animal shelter last week and euthanized by state environmental officials over rabies fears. .

The couple’s financial success, fueled at least in part by P’nut, may have been enough to prompt someone to drop the dime on them — and on their fluffy cash cow, they said.

“Maybe it’s someone who thinks I’m using this place to make a lot of money,” Mark said of his rescue farm.

“Has this done wonders for my OnlyFans?” Mark said about the place where P’nut frolicked with other animals. “Absolutely. A lot of money is being made from this.”

The Longos said they bought their 350-acre compound near Elmira with the $800,000 they made in one month posting their porn online — and P’nut then started pulling his own weight with his separate family-friendly fan base.

“I had my own kind of squirrel dad account, my own Instagram,” Mark Longo said. “And it’s me who does my training, and often I don’t have time to create (duplicate) content like I used to.

“I’ll just tag my squirrel dad account from the peanut video I posted so it gets double the clip views,” he said. ‘The occasional shirtless photo (also on P’nut’s page), but I’ve completely distanced myself from this whole thing. It was clear that people would find both and try to associate them.

The Longos made headlines after the state Department of Environmental Conservation raided their upstate range, “P’nuts Freedom Farm,” and snagged their lovable furry pet and his buddy, a raccoon named Fred — killing both critters euthanized due to rabies concerns because they were in trouble. close contact with people.

Seen by many as victims of an overreaching state government, the couple have become local heroes.

“This morning at the grocery store I wanted to buy a few extra copies of The Post to keep for myself,” Longo said, referring to Sunday’s newspaper with the front-page headline: “Bushy Whacked.”

“When I walked in, (people) recognized my face because I was on the cover of the newspaper. And they just smiled and nodded.

“Last night my wife and I went out to dinner. We were eating and the couple next to us looked at us and said, ‘We are so sorry for what happened, and we want you to know that you have our full support,'” he added. “Everyone just noticed, and then they told us that you knew they were sorry for what happened to P’nut.”

The squirrel’s death caused such outrage that it prompted a state lawmaker to propose legislation to improve animal rights statutes, naming the bill “Peanuts Law: Humane Animal Protection Act.”

“What happened to P’nut was a tragedy,” Assemblyman Jake Blumencranz said of X. “As a state legislator and animal rights advocate, this tragedy can be an agent of change.”

The measure would mandate a 72-hour waiting period before a shelter animal can be euthanized and creates an appeals system while giving animal shelters “the right to humane due process.”

P’nut’s death has also led to reactions from other police officers.

The spokesperson for former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is reportedly monitoring a New York mayoral candidate, has blasted Governor Kathy Hochul on X over her administration’s handling of P’nut.

“When no one is minding the store and government agencies are allowed to act with impunity, things like this happen,” wrote the representative, Rich Azzopardi. “This situation should have ended up on someone’s desk
@GovKathyHochul’s office and someone with a brain should have intervened.

“#Justice4Peanut”

GOP U.S. Rep. Marc Molinaro wrote online: “As a pet owner, I sympathize with the Longos and call on Governor (Kathy) Hochul to officially apologize for their ridiculous overreach.”

A gofundme.com page for P’nut has raised more than $132,000.

Neither Hochul’s office nor the DEC responded to requests for comment from The Post on Sunday.