The New York man whose Albert the alligator was confiscated by state officials warns pet owners that they might be after you after a squirrel rescuer’s beloved friend P’Nut has just been captured and killed.

“I think there’s a bigger plan behind all of this,” Tony Cavallaro told The Post on Sunday. “They’re going after 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 Conservation’s treatment of P’Nut, a rehabilitated squirrel who was 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 Fred’s raccoon. The DEC said it had to kill wild animals to test them for rabies because they interacted closely with humans.

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

“I am so sorry for what they have been through. There’s nothing I can do,” he said of Longo and his wife.

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

The gator — which Cavallaro had for 34 years and housed in an elaborate pen in his own home — has since been transported to an “adventure park” in Texas.

Cavallaro is now trying to get Albert at least transported to a sanctuary he trusts.

As for the DEC, Cavallaro has nothing but disgust and distrust.

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

The DEC said it had to take Albert because it was illegal for Cavallaro to keep him – a claim he strongly denies, insisting he tried several times to renew his long-term license for Albert , but that the agency refused to answer for years.

Cavallaro said the agency’s treatment of Longo — who said he was treated like “a terrorist” during their five-hour raid — was all too familiar, recalling how armed officers destroyed his home while – they raided the house for Albert.

Longo had been taking care of 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 she simply wouldn’t go away once she was nursed, so P’Nut became a quasi-pet, loved not only by Longo, but by the approximately 3 million people who they followed on social media.

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

Both animals were later euthanized by DEC because of the threat of rabies and such wildlife living with humans, state officials said. One agent claimed that P’Nut also bit his hand during the raid.