Albert, the alligator's owner, issues a dire warning following the death of P'Nut the squirrel

The New York man whose pet alligator Albert was confiscated by state officials is warning pet owners they could be next after a squirrel rescuer's beloved pal P'Nut was also just seized and killed.

“I think there’s a bigger plan behind all of this,” Tony Cavallaro told The Post on Sunday. “They’re stalking innocent people to see how far they can get away with us.”

Cavallaro said he was horrified to hear about the state Department of Environmental Protection's treatment of P'Nut, a rehabilitated squirrel kept as a pet by New Yorker Mark Longo.

The agency raided Longo's home in Pine City on Wednesday and seized the animal along with his pet raccoon, Fred. The DEC said it had to kill the wild pets to test for rabies because they had interacted closely with humans.

“It's just really sad that this squirrel didn't do anything,” Cavallaro said, adding that he knew all too well how powerless Longo must have felt during the DEC raid.

“I'm so sorry for what they went through. There’s nothing they could do,” he said of Longo and his wife.

Cavallaro has been fighting the DEC for nearly eight months since Albert was taken away from him in March.

The alligator – which Cavallaro kept for 34 years and kept in an elaborate enclosure in his own home – has since been transported to an “adventure park” in Texas.

Cavallaro is now trying to at least have Albert transported to a place of refuge he trusts.

When it comes to the DEC, Cavallaro has nothing but disgust and distrust.

“They’re just a dirty, dirty organization. “I don’t know what they want to do to us, but there is no justification,” he said.

The DEC said it had to arrest Albert because it was illegal for Cavallaro to keep him – a claim he strenuously denies, insisting that he tried multiple times to renew his long-standing permit for Albert, but the agency refused to do so for years refused to answer it.

Cavallaro called the agency's treatment of Longo – who said he was treated like “a terrorist” during their five-hour raid – all too familiar, recalling how armed officers tore his home apart as they stormed his home for Albert.

Longo cared for P'Nut for seven years after saving him as a baby when his mother was hit by a car.

He only kept the squirrel because it simply wouldn't leave after being nursed back to health – so P'Nut essentially became a pet that not only Longo, but also about 3 million people followed him on social media followed, loved.

But all that came crashing down on Wednesday when the DEC showed up and took P'Nut and Fred with them. Those animals were targeted — and not the others on Longo's property — because they lived in the house.

Both animals were subsequently euthanized by the DEC due to the threat of rabies and such wildlife living with humans, state officials said. One agent claimed that P'Nut also bit their hands during the raid.