Peanut the squirrel, the Instagram-famous rodent whose killing by New York State environmental officers became a brief election flashpoint, did not have rabies after all, officials have said.

Peanut was a rescue squirrel who lived under Longo's care for seven years. Longo found Peanut as a baby squirrel in the middle of a busy Manhattan street. After eight months of rehabilitation, Longo tried to release Peanut back into the wild. A day and a ...

Peanut, the social media star squirrel at the center of a national furor after it was seized from its owner in upstate New York and euthanized, has tested negative for rabies, a county official said Tuesday.