| May 29, 2019 | James Rogers | Fox News
A wild raccoon dog has been terrorizing a U.K. village, terrifying locals and attacking pets.
SWNS reports that police were called to Clarborough in Nottinghamshire this week after some residents were subjected to a two-hour standoff with the strange-looking animal.
Villager Mandy Marsh was woken by a “blood-curdling scream” early on Tuesday morning and her husband Dale ran outside to see a raccoon dog confronting the couple’s pet goat and pony.
"He came back and he said to me 'you are going to have to come and see this, there is something in the field attacking the pony and I have absolutely no idea what it is’,” she told SWNS. ..."
It was hissing and screaming and snarling,” Marsh added.
“It was going absolutely mad.” ..."
Armed with planks of wood, it took the couple two hours to chase the angry raccoon dog away, although their pet goat was left with a sore shoulder and scratches following the animal’s attack.
The raccoon dog returned moments later to confront a dog walker outside the March’s home, according to SWNS.
Police have warned local residents to be vigilant. ..."
Raccoon dogs are not raccoons, but are members of the canid, or dog family, according to the U.K.’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).
They are related to foxes and wolves.
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The raccoon dog, also known as the mangut,[2] tanuki or neoguri is a canid indigenous to East Asia.
It is the only extant species in the genus Nyctereutes.
It is unrelated to raccoons, and it is a close relative of true foxes rather than the domestic dog.
Among the Canidae, the raccoon dog shares the habit of regularly climbing trees only with the North American gray fox, another basal species.[3][4][5][6]
The raccoon dog is named for its superficial resemblance to the raccoon, to which it is not closely related.
In Japan, it is known as the tanuki, and has a long history in folklore.
In Sweden, it has been treated as a potentially hazardous invasive species.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon_dog
The owner is in denial, and sounds a lot like some Pit Bull owners I’ve known.
BOLO..
Tanuki
In Japanese folklore they’re described as lazy, cannot save money, love humping:
They embody everything Japanese deep down prefer to be, maybe in another lifetime (because real life involves numerous onerous committments, working, etc).
You know how the west has Garden Gnomes? In Japan in gardens you’ll find ceramic Tanukis. They usually wear a stupid grin on their face:
They always have an EMPTY pouch wallet (spent all his money) and testicles that hang down super low (cuz they love humping their brains out).
Japanese folklore also says Tanukis are mischevious and have MAGIC powers.
Except they attack ponies and goats?
If he absolutely guarantees that he will make sure the dogs will not escape from his property, they can give him the dogs back. He said it was his fault that they escaped.
But no more mistakes.
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Raccoon dogs are not raccoons, but are members of the canid, or dog family, according to the U.K.’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).
They are related to foxes and wolves.
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All pet owners believe their animals are safe and harmless, even when they’re savage and dangerous. This is pretty much the same brand of selective vision that convinces parents of newborns that everyone is as interested in their babies as they are, but the only harm there is being bored to death. With a dangerous animal, the views of the owner are at best a waste of everyone’s time and at worst a menace to public safety.
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Dog owners do not understand just how terrifying a group of loose dogs are to other people who happen to walk near them. Dogs, away from their masters, running in a pack are wild animals no matter how sweet they are in a domestic situation. I wish dog owners understood this.
He said the animals only eat small animals the size of gorillas.
Fwiw, many years ago I was given a baby female raccoon by an AR game warden, in the hope that we could save her life.
(Her mother had been killed by a car.)
We bottle fed her with a doll-bottle until she could eat warm milk with canned dogfood softened & mixed into it.
My old Chow-Chow bitch (Lady Di) accepted “MOLLY B” as a “funny-looking” puppy & “raised her” to be “a good dog”.
(As Lady Di aged into the early teens, she slept much more than she had as a young dog & Molly discovered that the top of a “snoozing Lady Di” made a wonderful place for a siesta. = I have numerous photos of the 2 of them, sound asleep in front of the fireplace.) .
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They found a real Chupacabra!