Luxury Australian brand found selling fur from often-tortured raccoon dogs
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A luxury Australian clothing brand is selling fur labelled as raccoon that testing has identified as raccoon dog, an unrelated species which is often mistreated in the international fur trade.
Forensic testing conducted by British textile analysis firm Microtex showed Alexandra Australia is selling coloured fur cuffs made from the fur of raccoon dogs, which are often electrocuted, bludgeoned to death or skinned alive.
A raccoon dog in a cage at a fur farm in China.