You don't see it and it looks like something else The Raccoon Dog (Nyctereutes Procyonoides)

Hello, I'm and this is Misty, a white female raccoon dog, born in 2003 from white parents. Misty was thrown out of the nest by the father. She's bottle raised with a husky as stepfather. She's extraordinary tame.

White specimens are very rare and I'm trying to do something about that. Misty's parents, Snowy and Tundra, both came from Wildpark Fuchsbichl in Waidhofen an der Ybbs in Austria. They are now in a small zoo in Settelstedt in Germany.

Misty's lover is Max.

He's from the Solinger Vogelpark in Solingen, Germany. Although I now little more about his ancestry than that he was born there in 2000, he's almost certainly not related to the Austrian population.

Here he is, glued to the nest, with the 2004 litter on the day of their birth. Mama is already stretching her legs.

And this is my son Falco who wants to be a hepetologist and has his own website.

We'd like to draw some attention to raccoon dogs as pets, because they're pretty fascinating. For one thing they've got extraordinary stamina. They've been camping out in the north-east of Siberia and in Northern Japan for the last six-million years or so, successfully avoiding both evolution and extinction. Thus it stealthily became the oldest surviving canid species - older than wolves, older, too, than bears. In fact about a thousand to tenthousand times as old as your domestic pet.
However, import them in the Ukraine and set a couple of thousand get free because the warm climate interferes deplorably with the quality of the intended fur, as the russians did in 1935, and they spread over the whole of Mid-Europe within half a century. In Germany several thousands are shot in the wild on a yearly basis, and the numbers are rising, but the population doesn't suffer too much under persecution. More end up as roadkill. In Germany there are enough of them to make it a native species, whether they like it or not. They are currently invading the Netherlands.
They don't do much damage as yet, because they're more omnivorous than foxes and badgers and will take acorns, berries, corn and roots. In short, it's an extremely tried and tested model with a high degree of flexibility.

The raccoon dog is among us, but even hunters will have a hard time spotting one, because they're a true embodiment of silence and camouflage, and nocturnal besides. If spotted, a raccoon dog is more often than not held for a fox, a raccoon, a badger or even a hedgehog.