The owner of P’nut the Squirrel made a tearful statement on TikTok on Saturday about the little creature’s death at the hands of New York State officials.

Mark Longo, accompanied by his wife, wept through his prepared remarks about the murder of his beloved best friend.

“I’m angry, I’m sad, I’m disgusted,” Longo said, suppressing his emotions in a clip from a TikTok live.
“We fight and work every day to pay our state taxes and they turn around and do this to a family,” Longo said.

New York State and the Department of Environmental Conservation have faced massive public backlash for their actions.

Many of the DEC’s social media posts have received hundreds of comments from outraged supporters of P’nut the Squirrel.

The animal rescuer also thanked his fans and the general public for “incredible support.” A GoFundMe set up by Longo in P’nut’s honor has raised more than $73,000.

The couple also says they are inundated with warm messages from supporters.

Longo also said that he will continue to post photos and content from P’nut “in his best days.”

Longo told The Post that he felt like a “terrorist” when state authorities entered his home on Wednesday.

DEC agents toured the Pine City residence for five hours — forcing Longo and his wife to wait outside the entire time — after obtaining a warrant to search the property.

Longo, 34, said he and his wife were not even allowed to use their own bathroom during the invasion without a police escort — “checking the back of the toilet to see if I was hiding anything there.”

The order stemmed from anonymous complaints about an animal that is a known vector for rabies, Fred the raccoon.

On Friday, the DEC announced that it had euthanized both P’nut and Fred to test them for rabies.

The department alleged in a statement Thursday that P’nut, who was remarkably friendly and docile during his public life, had bitten an officer and had to be tested for rabies.

Longo has expressed skepticism about this claim.

“I saw everyone putting on gloves before entering my house. They had gloves you could land an eagle on,” he told The Post.

He demands an investigation into the department’s motives and actions and files a motion to obtain the medical records of the officials in his home to see if they actually tested positive for the very rare disease.