Taxidermy: A Common Raccoon Dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides), circa 21st century, a high quality full mount adult with head turning to the left, stood atop a large dry log, overall height 56cm, animal length nose to tail 71cm.

Indigenous to mainland East Asia and Northern Vietnam, the Raccoon dog is named for the resemblance of its masked face to that of the North American Common Raccoon (Procyon lotor). The closest relatives of the raccoon dogs are the true Foxes, not the raccoon, one of the musteloids, which are not closely related. Among the Canidae, the raccoon dog shares the habit of regularly climbing trees only with the North American Gray Fox, which is not a true fox and to which the raccoon dogs are not closely related.