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What are the common characteristics and habits of raccoon dogs?

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Raising special economic animals, especially special fur animals, is highly profitable. However, special fur animals have all been domesticated and raised for a relatively short time, so they are not only highly wild in nature but also retain many wild habits. To engage in special animal farming, one must fully understand the characteristics and habits of these animals so as to carry out targeted feeding and management. Raccoon dogs look like foxes, but have smaller bodies, shorter legs, and long, fluffy fur. Divided by the Yangtze River, they fall into two varieties, southern raccoon dogs and northern raccoon dogs, and are further classified by specific place of origin into Ussuri raccoon dogs, Amur raccoon dogs, Korean raccoon dogs, Jiangxi raccoon dogs, Fujian-Guangdong raccoon dogs, Hubei raccoon dogs

Raising special economic animals, especially special fur animals, is highly profitable. However, special fur animals have all been domesticated and raised for a relatively short time, so they are not only highly wild in nature but also retain many wild habits. To engage in special animal farming, one must fully understand the characteristics and habits of these animals so as to carry out targeted feeding and management.

Raccoon dogs look like foxes, but have smaller bodies, shorter legs, and long, fluffy fur. Divided by the Yangtze River, they fall into two varieties, southern raccoon dogs and northern raccoon dogs, and are further classified by specific place of origin into 7 subspecies, including Ussuri raccoon dogs, Amur raccoon dogs, Korean raccoon dogs, Jiangxi raccoon dogs, Fujian-Guangdong raccoon dogs, Hubei raccoon dogs, and Yunnan raccoon dogs.

Raccoon dogs are highly adaptable omnivores and can feed on all kinds of slaughterhouse offal, various trash fish, various grains, and vegetables.

Raccoon dogs reach sexual maturity at 8 to 10 months of age. The breeding season runs from mid-February to mid-April each year, with the peak of estrus from late February to early March, but they come into heat only once a year. The gestation period is 54 to 65 days, with an average litter of 6 to 8 pups. To increase the kindling rate, they should be mated 3 times.

Raccoon dogs molt once a year. They begin shedding fur and underfur in spring, finish molting by mid-November, and their fur and underfur mature in late November.

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