A raccoon killed by a dog in Gastonia has tested positive for rabies, marking the third confirmed rabies case in the county.

Another dog killed a raccoon with rabies in Gaston County on Sunday, police announced on Tuesday. The rabies case marks the ...

Health officials are urging Chesapeake residents to ensure all pets and livestock are current on rabies vaccinations.

In 2020, another raccoon dog was spotted in Carmarthenshire, Wales but was then captured and ‘humanely destroyed’. Seeing a raccoon dog in the wild in Wales is considered extremely rare.

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And the animal at the top of the list is the raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides). “There is a large focus on raccoon dogs,” says Kristian Andersen, an evolutionary biologist at Scripps ...