10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2024

Despite the recent extensive media coverage of the housing glut in China, most bushtits still rely on building their own nest rather than renting or buying one. In the ominously named “Other” section often ending my posts, we have a Raccoon Dog , as seen on Tianmashan. Fortunately not Donald Trump.

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Raccoons Birds Fox Turtles 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

The new Guide to the Birds of China (John MacKinnon) has been published. This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW). Tianmashan bonus mammal: a Raccoon Dog – though it looks a lot like a raccoon, it is actually more closely related to foxes than to raccoons.

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 229

Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The call was issued after the animal rights group discovered that the fur were sourced from the raccoon dog in China, ABC Radio Australia reports. About 10 million dogs in China are killed for their fur, prompting an animal rights group to seek a ban on fur trade to Australia. However, the fur is passed off as sheep skin.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Only from China could you get TWO atrocities in one. Not only did tainted milk kill 1,500 raccoon dogs (they really look like raccoons), but these dogs were being raised for their FUR! Tags: fur china food.

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Fur Raised Raccoons Dogs 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2009

Here's the letter from Chris of Furisevil to HSUS: Dear HSUS, Like the raccoon dogs just a few miles from me, in cages awaiting to be killed, I cannot afford to wait for HSUS to do something. link] If Markarian cares about the fur animals of China, he could easily demand that HP stop selling fur on his blog.

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HSUS Fur Ethics China 100

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

According to this Associated Press story, if you are wearing a Sean John jacket with fur trim purchased from Macy's, that trim might have come from a dog indigenous to Asia known as a "raccoon dog." But when HSUS purchased several of these jackets, the jackets arrived bearing the labels "Made in China" and "genuine raccoon fur."

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