Raccoon Dog at Yorkshire WP 25/04/09

Nyctereutes procyonoides

Is this beauty a bit podgy or is it all fur?
Either way it's a lovely dog.

fur ^^ love these animals!

Fur indeed!
Sadly this lovely fur seems to be the downfall for these poor creatures, although how anybody could skin alive something as beautiful as this is beyond me.

We got a bit of a surprise when we went back and they'd moulted early in the summer - they looked about half the size.

That explains it then, it was all fur, and he / she wasn't podgy at all.