Based on the search results. The data suggests that squirrels are not considered vectors of rabies and have never been known to transmit the disease to humans.
A circus, a zoo all have caged animals the Gov considers dangerous on display for $$$. An individual has an animal, cares deeply for that animal and the Gov raids your house, takes your animal that loves you & you love and instead of releasing into the wild where the Gov believes the animals belong, they murder them; understand the difference between big Gov and citizens now 🤔
Peanut had been released in the past and had been unable to survive there. When they tried he came back a day and a half later injured from an attack and clearly unable to survive in the wild, which is why they kept him. That was literally years ago after he had first become full grown.
As would happen with most domesticated pets and based on Peanuts history, the families history of saving animals, Peanut, in a common sense era would still be in the care of those who raised him.
You must have taken Logic 101, use to be a great college elective, now they teach 2 + 2 =5 or anything you want it to be which was proven wrong by my first grade teacher (can't remember her name but she was hot stuff) using apples.
There was NO excuse for killing that squirrel. Where I live we get rabid bats and skunks and other animals all the time but we don’t go around killing healthy normal acting animals to see if BY CHANCE they have contracted rabies. And furthermore, once an animal HAS contracted it, it begins to act strangely: slobber, stagger, stupid, aggressive. If it does bite a human, which they don’t always do even when very sick, you call the health department, they come get the animal and test it. If it is positive (which a bat was here that an Amish boy handled with an open cut on his hand - not smart but easy to overlook) then the human goes and takes the immunoglobulin shots and the rabies vaccine and that’s the end of it. This is blatant government doing what it wants to do best : CONTROL and DEMORALIZE. I can tell you one thing. If they think they’re going to kill my pets, they don’t know what a tornado of hurts they are going to face! I hope Mark sues the department for millions of dollars and I hope he wins!
AI says there were 10 cases of rabies reported in the USA last year. A squirrel may not be a vector, but it can acquire the disease and bite a human before he dies. Happened to my cousin in the 1930's. He survived, but his IQ was diminished to below 100. Peanuts was healthy and he was murdered for no good reason except to demonstrate the power of the state over all living things. Having 4 enforcement agencies descend on this couple is outrageous and all could have been dealt with on a more civil basis, but that is not what is transpiring in the USA and our last hope is Donald Trump. We, as a society have become insensitive to loss of life through wars, famine and the massive number of abortions. Becoming upset about controlling rabies is far down on the list of what we need to fix.
Well he'd had it for years. If rabies were a problem for him he would've known already. Pretty obvious his pets did not have rabies.
Squirrels being a problem and generally a nuisance animal (they can and do cause property damage) doesn't mean they should be killed when owned as a pet. Cats can cause pretty significant damage too, so can dogs.
Domestic animals are NEVER sacrificed to test for rabies (which involves a brain biopsy) unless there has been a known exposure (a bat bites your dog, you kill the bat, and it tests positive for rabies) OR a questionable exposure (bitten by a raccoon that then escapes) AND the animal exhibits symptoms during quarantine. This whole Peanut situation smacks of persecution. I hope Peanut’s family takes all 4 of those agencies to the mat. RIP Peanut!
I am not a fan of squirrels by any means. Crikey, I am an old PA farm boy, and we called them "tree-rats." They wreaked havoc in the orchard, and did dastardly deeds, chewing through soffits, wiring (once per squirrel) and all kinds of mischief.
Papa Kriebs once told me that he was hunting on the old farmlands from the Norristown Hospital in the 50's, and he kicked a dead mule, and a bunch of squirrels ran out. Needlesstosay, we never made the local dish of "squirrel pie."
However, this is a clear example of not only government overreach, but also exactly why the Administrative State needs to be dismantled.
Oh, and squirrels do not carry rabies, but Raccoons do.
After moving from my home state of CA to MO where my husband was from, we stayed in a trailer behind his grandmothers house. I was visiting her one day and she was frying what looked to be a couple of walnuts. Turned out they were squirrel brains still in their craniums. She cracked them with a walnut cracker after they were cooked as I was leaving out the back door.
I have had regular relations with raccoons. Not as pets, tho one got in and ran the length of me, waking me up (cat door). Chased it out. In this case it sounded like the racoon too had been a house pet for a good while. Less likely to have gotten exposed to such an infection.
They are incredibly smart and adaptable to survival.
They are nearly omnivore.
They can eat most anything.
Climate/temp/nocturnal sight/can undo items with paws and hands.
Have winter mode like a bear in hibernation.
I witnessed such interesting northland creatures.
We had two babies my dad picked up off the dirt road near our homesite. Mom hit by car. We managed to nurse them to grow and were amazingly docile for the summer. Come fall we had them in a somewhat heated pole building and thru the winter rarely ever did they emerge. By the coming spring then summer these two became marauders of homesite and neighbors goods and buildings. Nighttime raids on trash can with locked lids were opened by magic? All summer long trouble. But the real huge mistake was when a guy left his new car window down overnight. These two tore the fabric out of the bench seat and crapped all over the inside. The next day someone set a open box trap several homes away and got em live trapped. You never seen two small critters as pissed off. They rubbed the fur off against the wire till blood came. A guy came and took em away. I never knew where. What I recall is the horrible DNA encoded behavior from warm house cat like fluffy. Into Badgers.
I put food out for a persistent feral cat. It doesn't eat everything and there are sharings. The raccoons have their own ideas about how the food and water are arranged. They fling things around when dissatisfied We have discussions and if that doesn't work no food for anyone for 5 days. We are having a peaceful period for a good while now. The feral is quite old so I've been trying to let it know it has a friend. The rest - we coexist with terms. So far so good. But we do react to one and other. No pet door these days.
I really do like racoons . . . from a distance. I have one or two that come around at night, and I give them some food. They're curious about me. Opposable thumbs and very intelligent, as Randall has observed!
Also, it appears they can form symbiotic relationships with cats. I had a racoon and a stray cat live under my shed/studio for a winter (eventually adopted the cat who then lived inside with us). They shared a space and shared the food I gave them. Yeah, other living creatures have lives, and feelings, and desires, and form relationships . . . just like we do.
I was reminded of one of those bizarre moments in life, thinking a squirrel was involved. But it was not a squirrel. The 1979 Jimmy Carter rabbit incident, explained here in the CIAclopedia.
Marks horrible heart breaking story of government tyranny reminds me of why I truly love most animals, especially dogs, and have little to no trust or respect for most humans.
I understand. I have to reminder myself daily that my hate, anger and resentment towards so many millions who embrace evil and destruction is like me taking poison and expecting them to die. It doesn't hurt them. And if I don't control my mind, the enemy will.
When I allow those emotions to control me, I stop thinking and start reacting.
For me, it is a 24/7 struggle to nurture peace of mind in the mist of so much generated chaos and fear.
This not only makes perfect sense, but is also my personal experience. So late in life I accepted the reality that my response to the outside world has always been an "inside job". I am the common denominator. The process has been slow, sometimes painful and sometimes rewarding. Given the world situation and my age, I probably do not have long to enjoy the fruits of my continuous labor in this spiritual journey. But I will die, one way or the other, knowing what true happiness and inner peace, although fleeting at times, truly feels like.
I feel the same way toward those who do things like this. I read some years ago that cruelty toward animals is a trait of the criminally insane (think Jeffrey Dahmer). The sheeple who carried out this order to raid and kill must surely be criminally insane. I wouldn't want to meet any of them in a dark alley. They should all be committed to a high security psychiatric hospital.
A friend of mine raised a couple of ‘wild’ abandoned /lost newborn animals in their home several years ago, they all were set free when they were able to be on their own. There were some issues, but they learned from them. They are still kind, whenever they can be. They are also a family with hunters, they eat what they hunt. P.S. My spouse had a cousin that learned the hard way, years ago, that not all creatures can or should be raised in captivity… in his case a lion cub. We should not make the mistake of overlaying human-like qualities or personalities on animal.
I am looking forward to Elon Musk reducing the Federal Government by 80%. My only complaint about squirrels is that they store nuts in the tubes of my kayak trailer in the winter and chew on the wiring harness. If rabies was a problem in squirrels it strikes me that a domesticated squirrel is likely to catch it.
In any event, the votes of cat lovers and squirrel lovers could decide this thing--and many thanks for adding a few laughs to this Presidential campaign. We all really needed it.
I have been practicing veterinary medicine since 1996...have never heard of, nor seen a rabid squirrel.
What they did was just wrong. They could have quarantined the animal. And Fred....what did Fred do? He just had to be killed as well?
My cousin growing up in the 60s and 70s was literally Ellie May Clampit.....she had possums and skunks and coons and all other critters...never got rabies....well, huh.
Yes, my brother works for animal control in Oklahoma. He told me the most common rabies carriers in our area are actually cats. I thought it was skunks.🦨♥️. And yet, I own a cat.
Thank you for the scope of Peanut, I asked my husband if he heard of it and he said “yes, they had to use force to check for Rabies and put him down, there’s no other way”. So I read the paragraphs from your substack.
I used the beer stein meme from Friday in our family group text about “here’s to different opinions and we’re all friends because we’re adults” and our son immediately replied with “depends on the opinions “ with this link which is circular reasoning and setting up for 1984 dictatorship.
My husband and son are so completely brainwashed, I have no social media not even FB, so your Substack is my only peek into the reality of what’s really going on, PsyWar…
A squirrel in captivity since five weeks old, in captivity for seven years has zero chance of rabies. That is BS.
Squirrels are rehabbed all the time with no fear of rabies.
"Based on the search results, it is extremely rare for squirrels to contract rabies. The data suggests that squirrels are not considered vectors of rabies and have never been known to transmit the disease to humans."
I was briefly a public health bacteriologist in New Mex. and rabies one of our biggest concerns.....and never even considered squirrels....at least none with 4 feet.
The 4 opening paragraphs of that pseudo article are so filled with subtle double-speak and contradictions in terms... it's impossible to list them all here!!
Suffice it to say that "tolerance" and "intolerance" are thoughts(!!!) and can only conflict with each other in the minds of the thinkers!!
Problems arise when those thinkers try to impose their thoughts on others in the form of physical actions by either forcing or preventing physical actions by others!!
Mr. Popper (as with most so-called "philosophers") was (by this excerpt) a propagandist, posing as a thinker!!
"Popper posited that if intolerant ideologies are allowed unchecked expression, they could exploit open society values..."!! That is Totally Absurd!!!
The key contradictions are "ideologies" and "expression"!!! Ideologies are thoughts while expressions can be actions!! It's the "actions" that could (and do) "exploit open societies"!!
I don't give a "tinker's damn" what anyone else's "ideologies" are... as long as they don't act in ways that try to impose those thoughts on me!!!
They can "scream at the sky" all they like as long as they don't disturb my sleep with their "actions"!!! ...see also ... "hate speech" ... "racism" ... "mis-gendering" ... "follow the science" ~Tony Fauci~ ... "I am democracy!" ~Barry Soetoro~
"It has implications for contemporary debates on managing hate speech, political extremism, and social policies aimed at fostering inclusivity without compromising the integrity of democratic tolerance."
I saw this coming a long time ago. The media has been more than helpful, as has 'educators' in our schools, to foster this crap ( no definitions ever provided) on society. It has taken root and all levels of gov use it to silence push back.
I am sorry you have to stay hidden from reality ... My son & d.i.l. are Dems and my husband is an ostrich (I love him) hiding from reality and thinks I overreact ... the Democrat's Gov't will run us into ruin. They don't care about American citizens, they only seem to care about power ... I hope you are able to peek often into the reality of what's going on frequently!
Download GEMINI onto their cell phones and take over household communications by keeping GEMINI off your phone. I forgot to add that my Ex has uninstalled GEMINI twice now, to no avail. They will be here too; begging to learn.
GEMINI not only listens to all voices in range, while she thinks it is on phone Standby, GEMINI is not shy about interrupting with its nonsensical rhetoric and propaganda.
"Dear Suitors;
"I want to give you all a heads up about something I have observed. My Ex and I were having a conversation the other day when her phone started talking to her. She pulled it out and I waited while she had difficulty making it shut up.
"She explained that she had installed GEMINI software and could not find a way to get it uninstalled. A couple hours afterward I had an offer on one of my phones to try having a conversation with GEMINI. Luckily I had been warned.
"A week later while discussing by text message a get together at her place, I asked, "Are you cooking?"
"GEMINI: No. Are you cooking?
"I thought several things among which was that she might have been offended at my presumption she was going to spend the get together in her kitchen. Or maybe I do not like her cooking - maybe a look on my face from decades ago? My imagination goes places like that.
"Anyway, that turned out to be GEMINI answering her text for her. She is appalled that this AI has occupied and commandeered her cell phone."
Now my imagination wanders to what Robert Wallace might think of and develop around GEMINI? The potential for this to spread and disrupt critical and social communications, and cultural creation is absolutely breathtaking."
Bless you, HeldFast. That article on the Paradox of Tolerance was a bunch of double speak straight out of 1984. I reread that this year because it had been so long ….
What a reflection of our society it is.
My husband would say Orwell was a time traveler. 😁
It is a blessing to be married to a man who sees conspiracy in everything… my ultra conservative (by today’s standards) opinions are the most liberal it gets around here. 😉😉
The whole Peanut/Fred event has my mouth hanging open. I always believe I've seen or heard it all (especially after COVID and all those triggered folks) but this is just unbelievable. I may never be able to get my head around how truly heartless and evil the left has become.
Republican attorney general Jason Miyares in Virginia is also stealing animals at the Natural Bridge Zoo in Lexington, Va. They are listening to HSUS and other left wing radical animal rights organizations and the line between animal welfare and the right to own property is wherever they say it is
I’ve been through the drive through safari at Natural Bridge and it was wonderful! Healthy peaceful animals freely wandering enormous acreage, much better than the National Zoo!
Thanks for sharing the story of Peanut and Fred and how our despicable out of control government murdered a man’s pets, like many subjects I learn here, I was unaware.
How many times have we said if I could go back in time I would change mistakes I have made in my life. Or we see the struggles of someone else and say I’m not going down that road.
They say that iron sharpens iron and one man sharpens another. All of our life’s experiences, including the ones we witness through the eyes of others, should make us grow into better stronger more positive productive people. I can’t tell you how much knowledge I have gained over the past two plus years from the Malones and all of you. Your shared experiences have been nutrition for me. Hopefully this gained knowledge will turn the next 4 years for all of us into the best, healthiest most prosperous and productive years of our lives, after all isn’t this why we’re here? Like you shared with us Drs. Malone, your most recent changes in diet, we should absorb that, take your wisdom, turn it into incentive, and become healthier. Thank you for that!
I had shared with you my struggles with smoking. I wanted to tell you what gave me the ability to quit. Ironically it wasn’t as simple as acknowledging that I had a problem or that I had hit bottom, unless you become sick there is no real “bottom” in smoking. It was my struggles living with and trying to help someone close to me get off of alcohol. As lucky as we are living here in America I see how hard life is on people. The pressures of work and life can be overwhelming. I say that not as an excuse but as a real reason. I have mentioned the struggles people have with the flesh controlling their actions, it can allow us to even let a personality changing addiction become normal in our life. They say the addicted person needs to want to change, but what I am trying to say to you is by living through this so closely, witnessing addiction, I gained the understanding of my own addiction and that the most powerful way that I could help the person I love was to lead by example, and that gave me the power to quit. For me, and I’ve heard it from others that allowed the normalcy of addiction into their life, is the power of setting an example for people around you that you love or are close friends with.
I know some may not agree or even get mad at me, certainly not every case is the same, but there is a certain selfishness in addiction. It doesn’t start as a selfish act but as the addiction grows and takes control over the person it becomes a voice inside of us. It can be devastating to the people around us, especially when it ends up as an illness or worse death. I have lived through this my whole life, peoples addictions that end up as cancers, overdose, and the inevitable, death.
I’ve never been to a meeting before but I can understand how friendships, pier pressures and the strength of setting an example for another especially in a group, can be a very powerful tool. As hard as it’s been, I didn’t figure this out by reading a book, or even someone telling me, although I asked, a lot, this awareness worked for me but unfortunately hasn’t solved my friends problem.
To end on a positive note, there’s no greater gift you can give to someone than to share knowledge that is taken, so years down the road that someone doesn’t have to look back on their life and say if I could go back in time I would change those mistakes that I made. Happy Sunday and thanks. J.Goodrich
I decided to quit July 3, 1974.....and quit. Oddly when the urge to smoke built, I would dream a guilty dream of a smoke, and kept an accurate count of how many times I slipped...all in my dreams. Finally ended about a yr later and think the count was some where at 7.
Good observations, James. I would add that paths to free ourselves of destructive habits are as diverse as people. My own success in quitting cigarettes involved three things. My wife observed that I was starting to wheeze while sleeping, I wanted to stay healthy and live a long time, and after stopping cold turkey (which has the lowest incidence of recidivism), I never wanted to go through those withdrawal symptoms again! So I haven't smoked a cigarette since that fateful quit day in 1999. A few beers and some toke in the evening, on the other hand . . .
One final note: If someone tells me that they have no bad habits, I don't believe them. NO ONE is perfect, and it seems we all need some way to blow off some steam.
Thanks ddc, you’re right with diversity and addictions. Three of the people that died in my immediate family all had addictions. My parents both smoked which turned into cancers, and my oldest brother that eventually OD’d as a result of pain killers. I think I will eventually see drinking take its toll on this what was the next page of my life one way or another, stay or go. It’s hard to sit back, watch and not understand, not know what I should do, or not know where or when it’s all going to end. I think the answer will just have to wait until it shows itself.
Just did a quick read on brain receptors it seems alcohol effects some of the same receptors also produces dopamine even the thought of drinking. I would probably agree smoking cigarettes or tobacco is probably a harder substance to quit. You know Shelley when I was a younger person I never thought I would be dealing with this being such a problem in my life at almost sixty. I’ve talked to people that have dealt with this a lot and no one ever gives me definitive answer how to get someone to stop drinking. I know in many addictions there is no helping someone to stop. It’s very difficult and it’s very sad for the addicted and the people around them. I’ve been told to just get away from it but then what? I’m not sure what might happen to this person if I just abandoned them. It’s a very tough situation, it sucks!!
It does suck James. Twelve Step programs work but only if the person is ready to work it for real. They must depend on a high power, a sponsor and a support group. I know a woman who went though it and she said it was hard but not as hard as quitting smoking. I use to drink beer but quit a long time ago, in my forties, that was thirty years ago.
When I was probably 16,17-22,23 I would drink way too much but not long after that I just grew out of it. Age has changed the effects of alcohol on this person, it’s so much different now. I’ve heard as you age the effects sometime get much more drastic straight or drunk. I’m not sure I can deal with this the rest of my life.
I don't know about effects with age. I don't know anyone who 'drinks'. I'm sure the body wears out over time. My father had a close friend that died of liver failure due to his chronic drinking. No one is ever really sure James but we trudge on.
I only mention my age because that was my experience. I ended up not liking being hungover, I think, so much I said no more of that!! I just would like to understand so I can try to figure out where this path ends up, I probably won’t ever know until I get there.
this squirrel is not the first case of this type of incident.
The government has been stealing animals for years under the direction of HSUS and PETA. It has been getting worse and worse.
They stolen almost All of elephants from private owners (seven private owners remain) and they have now moved onto giraffes. The big cats are also targets. They move them to “scamcuaries” run by HSUS lackeys where they are hidden from the public and God knows what happens to them.
Currently there are some giraffes at the natural Bridge zoo near Lexington, Virginia that are at the center of this argument.
Jason Miyares, our republican attorney general who we worked very hard to elect, has allowed his “animal law unit” under the leadership of a woman named Michelle Welch, (who has strong ties to HSUS, the animal Defense league, and other radical organizations) conducted a seizure raid on the natural bridge zoo about a year ago after they received a tip from a PETA spy that they had planted in the zoo as an employee.
After much legal wrangling, which did not seem completely above board in many ways, many of the animals had to be returned, but many of them were permanently stolen.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago when they finally came for the giraffes. It took them almost a year to find appropriate transportation for the giraffes, which, as it turned out, was not completely appropriate after all as they had a terrible time loading him and ended up crushing one of his hooves and causing multiple abrasions on his body. They then took this giraffe to Georgia to a resort where people will be staying in a hotel where they can actually see the giraffe close up. How this helps Virginians in any way, shape or form I am not sure.
The Natural Bridge zoo had passed all their USDA inspections but Michelle Welch had decided that their facility does not allow sufficient enrichment for the animals and Virginia has redefined cruelty as lack of enrichment
As you too are a resident of Virginia, own animals and have a louder voice than I, I would greatly appreciate if you would look into this as you have a very large following!
a simple Google search search will help you get an idea what was going on. There is a Facebook page called “Virginia animal ownership alliance”that also has more details, including postings of some of the court filings.
Many of us have been trying very hard to get more attention to this matter of illegal government seizures! These animals were not abused or neglected but the terror imposed on them (and their owners) by the state of Virginia was extreme. Additionally, some of these animals are quite valuable.
As you know, it is difficult to break through into adequate media coverage to get a public outcry reaction. It is my opinion that their long-term goal is our food supply, and that they will move on to farm animals when they feel brave enough . - Marcella Smith, bridgewater, Virginia
Wow, I had no idea bc I don't spend time on X, but my husband knew and wisely didn't share it with his animal lover wife. When I told him what I read just now, he said bc of X, millions of people know about this - not an isolated incident by any stretch. He sees it as a form of accountability. I'm cynical enough to know the perpetrators will never see justice... here anyway. But true justice is coming. God bless and protect Elon Musk and others we pray for daily, including you Dr Malone!
Learning about what happened to Peanut & Fred reminded me of an expression that my father liked to use - that "Everyone in this life needs (3) things: someone to love, something to do, & something to look forward to". No doubt that Peanut & Fred's owner has others to love, other things to do, & other things to look forward to. However, it does not change the fact that these heartless state government officials have permanently deprived this man of continuing to love these particular animals, caring for these particular animals, & looking forward to the next time he interacts with these particular animals. Sadly, it is also reminiscent of what was done to the population during covid: depriving people of seeing their loved ones & dying alone, depriving people of their livelihoods & occupations, & having very little to look forward to for untold weeks & months. I am beyond disgusted with the intrusive & heartless actions of those in control of the levers of power, who seem to take great delight in dictating to everyone as to what is in their "best interests". There was absolutely zero reason to deprive these precious creatures of their lives & zero reason to deprive their owner/caregiver of his role in caring for them.
Given all the attention to this debacle I suspect they will lie and say they detected rabies in both animals. Regardless, there was literally no reason to tear up their house. What were they looking for?
Our hearts are absolutely broken for Peanut the squirrel and his loving caretakers — and for all of America having to endure this evil outcome.
We just cannot believe our country has come to this, yet here we are. A [monkey]POX on the cold-hearted person who complained, the terrible judge who issued a warrant instead of relegating the request to the litterbox where it belonged, the 10 Feds who raided the rescuers' home and treated the family like dirtbag criminals of the lowest order, and the administrative state that crushed compassionate citizens who were just trying to do the right thing for an orphaned squirrel.
We used to work with rescued bunnies and adopted two over 20 years. We also volunteered at a local Humane Society that euthanized 4 terrified relinquished rabbits who were sweet and easy to manage by experienced handlers but defended themselves when grabbed roughly by inexperienced Humane Society workers. Despite the pleas of volunteers, the "Humane Society" put those 100% adoptable bunnies to death. This happened more than 15 years ago, and it's still as fresh and painful as Peanut's execution this week.
A couple of years ago, we reviewed an updated animal control ordinance for a town where we used to live. We pointed out its draconian slippery slopes, but the authoritarian "volunteers" who drafted it looked at us as if we had two heads. They fully believed they were furthering the public good. The punishments for both dogs and their owners were outrageously harsh.
First they come for your pets. Then someone complains and they come for your kids. Then they come for you. This is America under communist rule.
If we have no compassion for our pets and their caretakers, our society certainly won't care about humans and their children. Remember that when you vote on November 5 (and regret it if you made a bad choice during early or mail-in voting).
They already think they are superior to "ordinary" humans and have the right to turn their thoughts into actions because, after all, who would complain about swatting a fly (which I, on the other hand, try to shoo outside before resorting to swat or spray)???
This reminds me of what Anthony Fauci did to those beagles. The experiments on those poor dogs were horrific. Our government is a sick mess from the top to the bottom.
Funny what a squirrel can show us. That WE are being trained. Trained into helplessness, trained to tolerate a state that tells us it can do whatever it wants, upon its own whims, regardless of whatever proscriptions are set forth in foundational documents, or even just in common sense and human decency.
If Peanut's owner had shown any sign of resistance to the state's arbitrary whims, HE would be instantly transformed in the narrative as the nutcase. Such is the power of government/media narratives. Government and media distort, government and media lie, government and media obscure their own culpability.
I am not on social media so I find out about horror stories like Peanut and the ruthless Nazi terrorist raid on guiltless Americans through the rogue alternate media. My first impression, after I got my jaw back up on my face, was that this is just a test. It had nothing to do with someone breaking the law or being a threat to anyone. This was a real life exercise for the Stasi troops to prepare for future raids. Other than that I got nothin'. There is no excuse and I would hope that there is a law suit possibility. Doesn't the Biden admin sue the states all the time?
All you need to do is substitute the words "squirrel" and "racoon" with the words "cat" and "dog" and then sit back and observe the deluge of outrage!!!
My daughter’s dog got impregnated by the neighbor dog. He got through her fence and through the doggy door and got her pregnant marking his territory along the way. The momma dog was not even a year old. Well Lola had 7 puppies. She is tiny. A shorkie. 2 puppies died. One had a deformed head and one was not quite developed. There was also the runt. The run had to be bottled fed . So my daughter would get up at night to feed the baby puppy they named Little Leo. Little Leo was everyone one’s favorite. We had to watch our daughter’s dog and her puppies for ten days while our daughter and her husband went to Hawaii. We also had my grandson and their foreign exchange student from Chile. As I have mentioned before, we have 9-17 teenagers over for lunch everyday. Those kids took turns holding the puppies. They also feed Little Leo his bottle. All the kids loved Leo. He was so sweet and cute. So tiny. He took after the yorkie more. On Friday some of the lunch boys were at my daughter’s house hanging out with my grandson. One of them was holding Little Leo. He walked past the ping pong table where a boy came back with the paddle and accidentally hit Little Leo on the head which killed him. My daughter sobbed uncontrollably for an hour as well as my 14 year old grandson. The boy who was holding Little Leo was crying. The boy who was holding the paddle was crying and so were the other boys. I tell you this story because animals have a way of getting into your heart.
For those bullies who took the squirrel and raccoon there is no reasoning or excuse. They broke the heart of their care takers.
Yes I’m heart broke about Little Leo. He had my heart. I bottle fed him as well and took him to Utah for the day to a baby shower. I had to make sure he got his feeding. He had won my heart and I am very sad.
To be clear:
Based on the search results. The data suggests that squirrels are not considered vectors of rabies and have never been known to transmit the disease to humans.
A circus, a zoo all have caged animals the Gov considers dangerous on display for $$$. An individual has an animal, cares deeply for that animal and the Gov raids your house, takes your animal that loves you & you love and instead of releasing into the wild where the Gov believes the animals belong, they murder them; understand the difference between big Gov and citizens now 🤔
Peanut had been released in the past and had been unable to survive there. When they tried he came back a day and a half later injured from an attack and clearly unable to survive in the wild, which is why they kept him. That was literally years ago after he had first become full grown.
As would happen with most domesticated pets and based on Peanuts history, the families history of saving animals, Peanut, in a common sense era would still be in the care of those who raised him.
You must have taken Logic 101, use to be a great college elective, now they teach 2 + 2 =5 or anything you want it to be which was proven wrong by my first grade teacher (can't remember her name but she was hot stuff) using apples.
There was NO excuse for killing that squirrel. Where I live we get rabid bats and skunks and other animals all the time but we don’t go around killing healthy normal acting animals to see if BY CHANCE they have contracted rabies. And furthermore, once an animal HAS contracted it, it begins to act strangely: slobber, stagger, stupid, aggressive. If it does bite a human, which they don’t always do even when very sick, you call the health department, they come get the animal and test it. If it is positive (which a bat was here that an Amish boy handled with an open cut on his hand - not smart but easy to overlook) then the human goes and takes the immunoglobulin shots and the rabies vaccine and that’s the end of it. This is blatant government doing what it wants to do best : CONTROL and DEMORALIZE. I can tell you one thing. If they think they’re going to kill my pets, they don’t know what a tornado of hurts they are going to face! I hope Mark sues the department for millions of dollars and I hope he wins!
"CONTROL and DEMORALIZE"
The Democrat motto.
Nothing about rabies. Everything is about control. @$$holes
AI says there were 10 cases of rabies reported in the USA last year. A squirrel may not be a vector, but it can acquire the disease and bite a human before he dies. Happened to my cousin in the 1930's. He survived, but his IQ was diminished to below 100. Peanuts was healthy and he was murdered for no good reason except to demonstrate the power of the state over all living things. Having 4 enforcement agencies descend on this couple is outrageous and all could have been dealt with on a more civil basis, but that is not what is transpiring in the USA and our last hope is Donald Trump. We, as a society have become insensitive to loss of life through wars, famine and the massive number of abortions. Becoming upset about controlling rabies is far down on the list of what we need to fix.
Well he'd had it for years. If rabies were a problem for him he would've known already. Pretty obvious his pets did not have rabies.
Squirrels being a problem and generally a nuisance animal (they can and do cause property damage) doesn't mean they should be killed when owned as a pet. Cats can cause pretty significant damage too, so can dogs.
Domestic animals are NEVER sacrificed to test for rabies (which involves a brain biopsy) unless there has been a known exposure (a bat bites your dog, you kill the bat, and it tests positive for rabies) OR a questionable exposure (bitten by a raccoon that then escapes) AND the animal exhibits symptoms during quarantine. This whole Peanut situation smacks of persecution. I hope Peanut’s family takes all 4 of those agencies to the mat. RIP Peanut!
I am not a fan of squirrels by any means. Crikey, I am an old PA farm boy, and we called them "tree-rats." They wreaked havoc in the orchard, and did dastardly deeds, chewing through soffits, wiring (once per squirrel) and all kinds of mischief.
Papa Kriebs once told me that he was hunting on the old farmlands from the Norristown Hospital in the 50's, and he kicked a dead mule, and a bunch of squirrels ran out. Needlesstosay, we never made the local dish of "squirrel pie."
However, this is a clear example of not only government overreach, but also exactly why the Administrative State needs to be dismantled.
Oh, and squirrels do not carry rabies, but Raccoons do.
After moving from my home state of CA to MO where my husband was from, we stayed in a trailer behind his grandmothers house. I was visiting her one day and she was frying what looked to be a couple of walnuts. Turned out they were squirrel brains still in their craniums. She cracked them with a walnut cracker after they were cooked as I was leaving out the back door.
Racoons.....do not enjoy a similar research as ideal house pets.
Ask me how know, And I'll tell you so....
I have had regular relations with raccoons. Not as pets, tho one got in and ran the length of me, waking me up (cat door). Chased it out. In this case it sounded like the racoon too had been a house pet for a good while. Less likely to have gotten exposed to such an infection.
They are incredibly smart and adaptable to survival.
They are nearly omnivore.
They can eat most anything.
Climate/temp/nocturnal sight/can undo items with paws and hands.
Have winter mode like a bear in hibernation.
I witnessed such interesting northland creatures.
We had two babies my dad picked up off the dirt road near our homesite. Mom hit by car. We managed to nurse them to grow and were amazingly docile for the summer. Come fall we had them in a somewhat heated pole building and thru the winter rarely ever did they emerge. By the coming spring then summer these two became marauders of homesite and neighbors goods and buildings. Nighttime raids on trash can with locked lids were opened by magic? All summer long trouble. But the real huge mistake was when a guy left his new car window down overnight. These two tore the fabric out of the bench seat and crapped all over the inside. The next day someone set a open box trap several homes away and got em live trapped. You never seen two small critters as pissed off. They rubbed the fur off against the wire till blood came. A guy came and took em away. I never knew where. What I recall is the horrible DNA encoded behavior from warm house cat like fluffy. Into Badgers.
The talk was prion toxin or rabies infection
I put food out for a persistent feral cat. It doesn't eat everything and there are sharings. The raccoons have their own ideas about how the food and water are arranged. They fling things around when dissatisfied We have discussions and if that doesn't work no food for anyone for 5 days. We are having a peaceful period for a good while now. The feral is quite old so I've been trying to let it know it has a friend. The rest - we coexist with terms. So far so good. But we do react to one and other. No pet door these days.
I really do like racoons . . . from a distance. I have one or two that come around at night, and I give them some food. They're curious about me. Opposable thumbs and very intelligent, as Randall has observed!
Also, it appears they can form symbiotic relationships with cats. I had a racoon and a stray cat live under my shed/studio for a winter (eventually adopted the cat who then lived inside with us). They shared a space and shared the food I gave them. Yeah, other living creatures have lives, and feelings, and desires, and form relationships . . . just like we do.
They can unscrew the hinges off a locked doggy door with a cordless Milwaukee tool they scarfed from the pickup tool box next door around midnight!
Funny..... but not when it's your pesky problems. EH?......
They also do carry rabies....lots of it
See my comment in this thread.
I was reminded of one of those bizarre moments in life, thinking a squirrel was involved. But it was not a squirrel. The 1979 Jimmy Carter rabbit incident, explained here in the CIAclopedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_rabbit_incident
Marks horrible heart breaking story of government tyranny reminds me of why I truly love most animals, especially dogs, and have little to no trust or respect for most humans.
I have not trust at all for anyone in government.
DITTO!!
God help me, but I hate humans right now.
I understand. I have to reminder myself daily that my hate, anger and resentment towards so many millions who embrace evil and destruction is like me taking poison and expecting them to die. It doesn't hurt them. And if I don't control my mind, the enemy will.
When I allow those emotions to control me, I stop thinking and start reacting.
For me, it is a 24/7 struggle to nurture peace of mind in the mist of so much generated chaos and fear.
God gives me strength and He is my refuse.
Don't know if you would find this interesting:
https://drp314.substack.com/p/the-rudder-of-destiny
This not only makes perfect sense, but is also my personal experience. So late in life I accepted the reality that my response to the outside world has always been an "inside job". I am the common denominator. The process has been slow, sometimes painful and sometimes rewarding. Given the world situation and my age, I probably do not have long to enjoy the fruits of my continuous labor in this spiritual journey. But I will die, one way or the other, knowing what true happiness and inner peace, although fleeting at times, truly feels like.
Thanks, God bless you and yours,
God Bless America
Humans are fine....almost entertaining........until you give them a little power.
I feel the same way toward those who do things like this. I read some years ago that cruelty toward animals is a trait of the criminally insane (think Jeffrey Dahmer). The sheeple who carried out this order to raid and kill must surely be criminally insane. I wouldn't want to meet any of them in a dark alley. They should all be committed to a high security psychiatric hospital.
A friend of mine raised a couple of ‘wild’ abandoned /lost newborn animals in their home several years ago, they all were set free when they were able to be on their own. There were some issues, but they learned from them. They are still kind, whenever they can be. They are also a family with hunters, they eat what they hunt. P.S. My spouse had a cousin that learned the hard way, years ago, that not all creatures can or should be raised in captivity… in his case a lion cub. We should not make the mistake of overlaying human-like qualities or personalities on animal.
I am looking forward to Elon Musk reducing the Federal Government by 80%. My only complaint about squirrels is that they store nuts in the tubes of my kayak trailer in the winter and chew on the wiring harness. If rabies was a problem in squirrels it strikes me that a domesticated squirrel is likely to catch it.
In any event, the votes of cat lovers and squirrel lovers could decide this thing--and many thanks for adding a few laughs to this Presidential campaign. We all really needed it.
During the otherwise exceedingly boring 1940 Presidential campaign, the "Burns and Allen Show" announced a gag Presidential bid for Gracie Allen in February ( https://otrr.org/OTRRLibrary/jukebox/Burns%20and%20Allen%2040-02-28%20(22)%20Government%20Jobs.mp3 ), and it was such a hit that by late May, they had staged a 34 city whistle-stop tour and a "Surprise Party" convention with 8,000 delegates in Omaha ( https://otrr.org/OTRRLibrary/jukebox/Burns%20and%20Allen%2040-05-15%20(33)%20Rah,%20Rah%20in%20Omaha.mp3 ). Here is an extended version of her campaign song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4cd_ghgTKU
I have been practicing veterinary medicine since 1996...have never heard of, nor seen a rabid squirrel.
What they did was just wrong. They could have quarantined the animal. And Fred....what did Fred do? He just had to be killed as well?
My cousin growing up in the 60s and 70s was literally Ellie May Clampit.....she had possums and skunks and coons and all other critters...never got rabies....well, huh.
Yes, my brother works for animal control in Oklahoma. He told me the most common rabies carriers in our area are actually cats. I thought it was skunks.🦨♥️. And yet, I own a cat.
Thank you for the scope of Peanut, I asked my husband if he heard of it and he said “yes, they had to use force to check for Rabies and put him down, there’s no other way”. So I read the paragraphs from your substack.
I used the beer stein meme from Friday in our family group text about “here’s to different opinions and we’re all friends because we’re adults” and our son immediately replied with “depends on the opinions “ with this link which is circular reasoning and setting up for 1984 dictatorship.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
My husband and son are so completely brainwashed, I have no social media not even FB, so your Substack is my only peek into the reality of what’s really going on, PsyWar…
A squirrel in captivity since five weeks old, in captivity for seven years has zero chance of rabies. That is BS.
Squirrels are rehabbed all the time with no fear of rabies.
"Based on the search results, it is extremely rare for squirrels to contract rabies. The data suggests that squirrels are not considered vectors of rabies and have never been known to transmit the disease to humans."
I was briefly a public health bacteriologist in New Mex. and rabies one of our biggest concerns.....and never even considered squirrels....at least none with 4 feet.
same, no social media. it has ruined society my one respite is here on substack
The 4 opening paragraphs of that pseudo article are so filled with subtle double-speak and contradictions in terms... it's impossible to list them all here!!
Suffice it to say that "tolerance" and "intolerance" are thoughts(!!!) and can only conflict with each other in the minds of the thinkers!!
Problems arise when those thinkers try to impose their thoughts on others in the form of physical actions by either forcing or preventing physical actions by others!!
Mr. Popper (as with most so-called "philosophers") was (by this excerpt) a propagandist, posing as a thinker!!
"Popper posited that if intolerant ideologies are allowed unchecked expression, they could exploit open society values..."!! That is Totally Absurd!!!
The key contradictions are "ideologies" and "expression"!!! Ideologies are thoughts while expressions can be actions!! It's the "actions" that could (and do) "exploit open societies"!!
I don't give a "tinker's damn" what anyone else's "ideologies" are... as long as they don't act in ways that try to impose those thoughts on me!!!
They can "scream at the sky" all they like as long as they don't disturb my sleep with their "actions"!!! ...see also ... "hate speech" ... "racism" ... "mis-gendering" ... "follow the science" ~Tony Fauci~ ... "I am democracy!" ~Barry Soetoro~
"It has implications for contemporary debates on managing hate speech, political extremism, and social policies aimed at fostering inclusivity without compromising the integrity of democratic tolerance."
I saw this coming a long time ago. The media has been more than helpful, as has 'educators' in our schools, to foster this crap ( no definitions ever provided) on society. It has taken root and all levels of gov use it to silence push back.
I am sorry you have to stay hidden from reality ... My son & d.i.l. are Dems and my husband is an ostrich (I love him) hiding from reality and thinks I overreact ... the Democrat's Gov't will run us into ruin. They don't care about American citizens, they only seem to care about power ... I hope you are able to peek often into the reality of what's going on frequently!
Stay strong 👍
Download GEMINI onto their cell phones and take over household communications by keeping GEMINI off your phone. I forgot to add that my Ex has uninstalled GEMINI twice now, to no avail. They will be here too; begging to learn.
GEMINI not only listens to all voices in range, while she thinks it is on phone Standby, GEMINI is not shy about interrupting with its nonsensical rhetoric and propaganda.
"Dear Suitors;
"I want to give you all a heads up about something I have observed. My Ex and I were having a conversation the other day when her phone started talking to her. She pulled it out and I waited while she had difficulty making it shut up.
"She explained that she had installed GEMINI software and could not find a way to get it uninstalled. A couple hours afterward I had an offer on one of my phones to try having a conversation with GEMINI. Luckily I had been warned.
"A week later while discussing by text message a get together at her place, I asked, "Are you cooking?"
"GEMINI: No. Are you cooking?
"I thought several things among which was that she might have been offended at my presumption she was going to spend the get together in her kitchen. Or maybe I do not like her cooking - maybe a look on my face from decades ago? My imagination goes places like that.
"Anyway, that turned out to be GEMINI answering her text for her. She is appalled that this AI has occupied and commandeered her cell phone."
Now my imagination wanders to what Robert Wallace might think of and develop around GEMINI? The potential for this to spread and disrupt critical and social communications, and cultural creation is absolutely breathtaking."
It’s actually super easy to stop this AI thing.m. You will need a big hammer and a rock to lay your cell phone on.
I would probably need somebody standing by for a face-to-face. Can you link me to the proper forms?
WOW!!! We might actually have to go back to that archaic thing called talking to each other!!!
Bless you, HeldFast. That article on the Paradox of Tolerance was a bunch of double speak straight out of 1984. I reread that this year because it had been so long ….
What a reflection of our society it is.
My husband would say Orwell was a time traveler. 😁
It is a blessing to be married to a man who sees conspiracy in everything… my ultra conservative (by today’s standards) opinions are the most liberal it gets around here. 😉😉
The whole Peanut/Fred event has my mouth hanging open. I always believe I've seen or heard it all (especially after COVID and all those triggered folks) but this is just unbelievable. I may never be able to get my head around how truly heartless and evil the left has become.
Republican attorney general Jason Miyares in Virginia is also stealing animals at the Natural Bridge Zoo in Lexington, Va. They are listening to HSUS and other left wing radical animal rights organizations and the line between animal welfare and the right to own property is wherever they say it is
I’ve been through the drive through safari at Natural Bridge and it was wonderful! Healthy peaceful animals freely wandering enormous acreage, much better than the National Zoo!
Thanks for sharing the story of Peanut and Fred and how our despicable out of control government murdered a man’s pets, like many subjects I learn here, I was unaware.
How many times have we said if I could go back in time I would change mistakes I have made in my life. Or we see the struggles of someone else and say I’m not going down that road.
They say that iron sharpens iron and one man sharpens another. All of our life’s experiences, including the ones we witness through the eyes of others, should make us grow into better stronger more positive productive people. I can’t tell you how much knowledge I have gained over the past two plus years from the Malones and all of you. Your shared experiences have been nutrition for me. Hopefully this gained knowledge will turn the next 4 years for all of us into the best, healthiest most prosperous and productive years of our lives, after all isn’t this why we’re here? Like you shared with us Drs. Malone, your most recent changes in diet, we should absorb that, take your wisdom, turn it into incentive, and become healthier. Thank you for that!
I had shared with you my struggles with smoking. I wanted to tell you what gave me the ability to quit. Ironically it wasn’t as simple as acknowledging that I had a problem or that I had hit bottom, unless you become sick there is no real “bottom” in smoking. It was my struggles living with and trying to help someone close to me get off of alcohol. As lucky as we are living here in America I see how hard life is on people. The pressures of work and life can be overwhelming. I say that not as an excuse but as a real reason. I have mentioned the struggles people have with the flesh controlling their actions, it can allow us to even let a personality changing addiction become normal in our life. They say the addicted person needs to want to change, but what I am trying to say to you is by living through this so closely, witnessing addiction, I gained the understanding of my own addiction and that the most powerful way that I could help the person I love was to lead by example, and that gave me the power to quit. For me, and I’ve heard it from others that allowed the normalcy of addiction into their life, is the power of setting an example for people around you that you love or are close friends with.
I know some may not agree or even get mad at me, certainly not every case is the same, but there is a certain selfishness in addiction. It doesn’t start as a selfish act but as the addiction grows and takes control over the person it becomes a voice inside of us. It can be devastating to the people around us, especially when it ends up as an illness or worse death. I have lived through this my whole life, peoples addictions that end up as cancers, overdose, and the inevitable, death.
I’ve never been to a meeting before but I can understand how friendships, pier pressures and the strength of setting an example for another especially in a group, can be a very powerful tool. As hard as it’s been, I didn’t figure this out by reading a book, or even someone telling me, although I asked, a lot, this awareness worked for me but unfortunately hasn’t solved my friends problem.
To end on a positive note, there’s no greater gift you can give to someone than to share knowledge that is taken, so years down the road that someone doesn’t have to look back on their life and say if I could go back in time I would change those mistakes that I made. Happy Sunday and thanks. J.Goodrich
I decided to quit July 3, 1974.....and quit. Oddly when the urge to smoke built, I would dream a guilty dream of a smoke, and kept an accurate count of how many times I slipped...all in my dreams. Finally ended about a yr later and think the count was some where at 7.
Very well stated James! Addiction is powerful, but we all still have free will beneath the addiction, it comes down to the strength to want change.
Good observations, James. I would add that paths to free ourselves of destructive habits are as diverse as people. My own success in quitting cigarettes involved three things. My wife observed that I was starting to wheeze while sleeping, I wanted to stay healthy and live a long time, and after stopping cold turkey (which has the lowest incidence of recidivism), I never wanted to go through those withdrawal symptoms again! So I haven't smoked a cigarette since that fateful quit day in 1999. A few beers and some toke in the evening, on the other hand . . .
One final note: If someone tells me that they have no bad habits, I don't believe them. NO ONE is perfect, and it seems we all need some way to blow off some steam.
Thanks ddc, you’re right with diversity and addictions. Three of the people that died in my immediate family all had addictions. My parents both smoked which turned into cancers, and my oldest brother that eventually OD’d as a result of pain killers. I think I will eventually see drinking take its toll on this what was the next page of my life one way or another, stay or go. It’s hard to sit back, watch and not understand, not know what I should do, or not know where or when it’s all going to end. I think the answer will just have to wait until it shows itself.
I doubt there is an alcohol receptor in the brain like there is for nicotine. Smokers must fight their own subconscious urgings.
Just did a quick read on brain receptors it seems alcohol effects some of the same receptors also produces dopamine even the thought of drinking. I would probably agree smoking cigarettes or tobacco is probably a harder substance to quit. You know Shelley when I was a younger person I never thought I would be dealing with this being such a problem in my life at almost sixty. I’ve talked to people that have dealt with this a lot and no one ever gives me definitive answer how to get someone to stop drinking. I know in many addictions there is no helping someone to stop. It’s very difficult and it’s very sad for the addicted and the people around them. I’ve been told to just get away from it but then what? I’m not sure what might happen to this person if I just abandoned them. It’s a very tough situation, it sucks!!
It does suck James. Twelve Step programs work but only if the person is ready to work it for real. They must depend on a high power, a sponsor and a support group. I know a woman who went though it and she said it was hard but not as hard as quitting smoking. I use to drink beer but quit a long time ago, in my forties, that was thirty years ago.
When I was probably 16,17-22,23 I would drink way too much but not long after that I just grew out of it. Age has changed the effects of alcohol on this person, it’s so much different now. I’ve heard as you age the effects sometime get much more drastic straight or drunk. I’m not sure I can deal with this the rest of my life.
I don't know about effects with age. I don't know anyone who 'drinks'. I'm sure the body wears out over time. My father had a close friend that died of liver failure due to his chronic drinking. No one is ever really sure James but we trudge on.
I only mention my age because that was my experience. I ended up not liking being hungover, I think, so much I said no more of that!! I just would like to understand so I can try to figure out where this path ends up, I probably won’t ever know until I get there.
Trigger!!! Brilliant!:) Thanks, Dr Malone!
Peanut video! Love it! Government reaction... totally heartbreaking and infuriating.....
Remember Peanut!!! Fight, Fight, Fight!
Dear Dr. Malone,
this squirrel is not the first case of this type of incident.
The government has been stealing animals for years under the direction of HSUS and PETA. It has been getting worse and worse.
They stolen almost All of elephants from private owners (seven private owners remain) and they have now moved onto giraffes. The big cats are also targets. They move them to “scamcuaries” run by HSUS lackeys where they are hidden from the public and God knows what happens to them.
Currently there are some giraffes at the natural Bridge zoo near Lexington, Virginia that are at the center of this argument.
Jason Miyares, our republican attorney general who we worked very hard to elect, has allowed his “animal law unit” under the leadership of a woman named Michelle Welch, (who has strong ties to HSUS, the animal Defense league, and other radical organizations) conducted a seizure raid on the natural bridge zoo about a year ago after they received a tip from a PETA spy that they had planted in the zoo as an employee.
After much legal wrangling, which did not seem completely above board in many ways, many of the animals had to be returned, but many of them were permanently stolen.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago when they finally came for the giraffes. It took them almost a year to find appropriate transportation for the giraffes, which, as it turned out, was not completely appropriate after all as they had a terrible time loading him and ended up crushing one of his hooves and causing multiple abrasions on his body. They then took this giraffe to Georgia to a resort where people will be staying in a hotel where they can actually see the giraffe close up. How this helps Virginians in any way, shape or form I am not sure.
The Natural Bridge zoo had passed all their USDA inspections but Michelle Welch had decided that their facility does not allow sufficient enrichment for the animals and Virginia has redefined cruelty as lack of enrichment
As you too are a resident of Virginia, own animals and have a louder voice than I, I would greatly appreciate if you would look into this as you have a very large following!
a simple Google search search will help you get an idea what was going on. There is a Facebook page called “Virginia animal ownership alliance”that also has more details, including postings of some of the court filings.
Many of us have been trying very hard to get more attention to this matter of illegal government seizures! These animals were not abused or neglected but the terror imposed on them (and their owners) by the state of Virginia was extreme. Additionally, some of these animals are quite valuable.
As you know, it is difficult to break through into adequate media coverage to get a public outcry reaction. It is my opinion that their long-term goal is our food supply, and that they will move on to farm animals when they feel brave enough . - Marcella Smith, bridgewater, Virginia
I will try to get a Substack written about it
I had no idea. Thank you for this information!
Here's a bit of information on Peanut and the 'Karen' that reported him.
https://x.com/Tala_NoExcuses/status/1852818129292058646?t=NFEhjlMoboGjq1wu7tVayw&s=19
Thanks - shared on X.
That’s a great link. Hopefully she will get some donations now.
Thanks Doc for incisively figuring out why Peanut matters.
Wow, I had no idea bc I don't spend time on X, but my husband knew and wisely didn't share it with his animal lover wife. When I told him what I read just now, he said bc of X, millions of people know about this - not an isolated incident by any stretch. He sees it as a form of accountability. I'm cynical enough to know the perpetrators will never see justice... here anyway. But true justice is coming. God bless and protect Elon Musk and others we pray for daily, including you Dr Malone!
Hopefully the perpetrators will reincarnate as pet squirrels or pet raccoons and be murdered in the very same way.
Here's how that works. In another lifetime, the feds incarnate as the pets, and the pets incarnate as the feds. Lol!
Learning about what happened to Peanut & Fred reminded me of an expression that my father liked to use - that "Everyone in this life needs (3) things: someone to love, something to do, & something to look forward to". No doubt that Peanut & Fred's owner has others to love, other things to do, & other things to look forward to. However, it does not change the fact that these heartless state government officials have permanently deprived this man of continuing to love these particular animals, caring for these particular animals, & looking forward to the next time he interacts with these particular animals. Sadly, it is also reminiscent of what was done to the population during covid: depriving people of seeing their loved ones & dying alone, depriving people of their livelihoods & occupations, & having very little to look forward to for untold weeks & months. I am beyond disgusted with the intrusive & heartless actions of those in control of the levers of power, who seem to take great delight in dictating to everyone as to what is in their "best interests". There was absolutely zero reason to deprive these precious creatures of their lives & zero reason to deprive their owner/caregiver of his role in caring for them.
Given all the attention to this debacle I suspect they will lie and say they detected rabies in both animals. Regardless, there was literally no reason to tear up their house. What were they looking for?
An excuse.
You get it
Pet Squirrel Murder in America
Commentary
Our hearts are absolutely broken for Peanut the squirrel and his loving caretakers — and for all of America having to endure this evil outcome.
We just cannot believe our country has come to this, yet here we are. A [monkey]POX on the cold-hearted person who complained, the terrible judge who issued a warrant instead of relegating the request to the litterbox where it belonged, the 10 Feds who raided the rescuers' home and treated the family like dirtbag criminals of the lowest order, and the administrative state that crushed compassionate citizens who were just trying to do the right thing for an orphaned squirrel.
Thanks to Dr. Malone for highlighting this tragic story and a commenter who shared Tala Smith's explanation on X (https://x.com/Tala_NoExcuses/status/1852818129292058646).
We used to work with rescued bunnies and adopted two over 20 years. We also volunteered at a local Humane Society that euthanized 4 terrified relinquished rabbits who were sweet and easy to manage by experienced handlers but defended themselves when grabbed roughly by inexperienced Humane Society workers. Despite the pleas of volunteers, the "Humane Society" put those 100% adoptable bunnies to death. This happened more than 15 years ago, and it's still as fresh and painful as Peanut's execution this week.
A couple of years ago, we reviewed an updated animal control ordinance for a town where we used to live. We pointed out its draconian slippery slopes, but the authoritarian "volunteers" who drafted it looked at us as if we had two heads. They fully believed they were furthering the public good. The punishments for both dogs and their owners were outrageously harsh.
First they come for your pets. Then someone complains and they come for your kids. Then they come for you. This is America under communist rule.
If we have no compassion for our pets and their caretakers, our society certainly won't care about humans and their children. Remember that when you vote on November 5 (and regret it if you made a bad choice during early or mail-in voting).
They already think they are superior to "ordinary" humans and have the right to turn their thoughts into actions because, after all, who would complain about swatting a fly (which I, on the other hand, try to shoo outside before resorting to swat or spray)???
I do the same.
This reminds me of what Anthony Fauci did to those beagles. The experiments on those poor dogs were horrific. Our government is a sick mess from the top to the bottom.
It started at the end of WWII!! Look up "Operation Paperclip" and ignore all the "debunking" you will probably encounter!!
Funny what a squirrel can show us. That WE are being trained. Trained into helplessness, trained to tolerate a state that tells us it can do whatever it wants, upon its own whims, regardless of whatever proscriptions are set forth in foundational documents, or even just in common sense and human decency.
If Peanut's owner had shown any sign of resistance to the state's arbitrary whims, HE would be instantly transformed in the narrative as the nutcase. Such is the power of government/media narratives. Government and media distort, government and media lie, government and media obscure their own culpability.
I am not on social media so I find out about horror stories like Peanut and the ruthless Nazi terrorist raid on guiltless Americans through the rogue alternate media. My first impression, after I got my jaw back up on my face, was that this is just a test. It had nothing to do with someone breaking the law or being a threat to anyone. This was a real life exercise for the Stasi troops to prepare for future raids. Other than that I got nothin'. There is no excuse and I would hope that there is a law suit possibility. Doesn't the Biden admin sue the states all the time?
All you need to do is substitute the words "squirrel" and "racoon" with the words "cat" and "dog" and then sit back and observe the deluge of outrage!!!
Acurate
If innocent squirrels and raccoons are killed by this merciless regime, SURPRISE 😮, YOU AREN'T SAFE EITHER ‼️‼️‼️
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1852716944153043161
My daughter’s dog got impregnated by the neighbor dog. He got through her fence and through the doggy door and got her pregnant marking his territory along the way. The momma dog was not even a year old. Well Lola had 7 puppies. She is tiny. A shorkie. 2 puppies died. One had a deformed head and one was not quite developed. There was also the runt. The run had to be bottled fed . So my daughter would get up at night to feed the baby puppy they named Little Leo. Little Leo was everyone one’s favorite. We had to watch our daughter’s dog and her puppies for ten days while our daughter and her husband went to Hawaii. We also had my grandson and their foreign exchange student from Chile. As I have mentioned before, we have 9-17 teenagers over for lunch everyday. Those kids took turns holding the puppies. They also feed Little Leo his bottle. All the kids loved Leo. He was so sweet and cute. So tiny. He took after the yorkie more. On Friday some of the lunch boys were at my daughter’s house hanging out with my grandson. One of them was holding Little Leo. He walked past the ping pong table where a boy came back with the paddle and accidentally hit Little Leo on the head which killed him. My daughter sobbed uncontrollably for an hour as well as my 14 year old grandson. The boy who was holding Little Leo was crying. The boy who was holding the paddle was crying and so were the other boys. I tell you this story because animals have a way of getting into your heart.
For those bullies who took the squirrel and raccoon there is no reasoning or excuse. They broke the heart of their care takers.
Yes I’m heart broke about Little Leo. He had my heart. I bottle fed him as well and took him to Utah for the day to a baby shower. I had to make sure he got his feeding. He had won my heart and I am very sad.