{"id":23330,"date":"2025-04-23T09:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=23330"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:46:44","slug":"peanut-the-squirrels-death-triggered-outcry-and-spawned-a-2-bllion-memecoin-but-was-it-a-planned-outcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=23330","title":{"rendered":"Peanut The Squirrel&#8217;s Death Triggered Outcry And Spawned A $2 Bllion Memecoin, But Was It A Planned Outcome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The seizure and subsequent euthanasia of \u201cPeanut,\u201d the beloved social media star squirrel, last year not only ignited public outrage but also became a flashpoint in a highly volatile election season.<\/p>\n<p>The events leading to the incident, detailed in an Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/peanut-squirrel-rabies-new-york-investigation-55bae101240c088ffa0c427cac803e3f\">report<\/a>, have led to speculation about whether officials premeditated Peanut&#8217;s fate, casting a shadow over the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation&#8217;s actions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened:<\/strong> Peanut, an orphaned squirrel rescued by <strong>Mark Longo<\/strong>, amassed over 500,000 Instagram followers with videos of him wearing tiny cowboy hats and eating waffles. However, its social media presence started drawing the attention of state wildlife authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that complaints about illegal possession started coming in, as it was against the state law to keep a wild animal &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/04\/44943572\/peanut-the-squirrels-death-triggered-outcry-and-spawned-a-2-bllion-memecoin-but-was-it-a-p\" alt=\"Peanut\" the squirrel death triggered outcry and spawned a bllion memecoin but was it planned outcome>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seizure and subsequent euthanasia of \u201cPeanut,\u201d the beloved social media star squirrel, last year not only ignited public outrage but also became a flashpoint in a highly volatile election season. The events leading to the incident, detailed in an Associated Press report, have led to speculation about whether officials premeditated Peanut&#8217;s fate, casting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-23330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}