A hot topic recently because of their potential involvement in the initial spread of covid-19, the raccoon dog is a stocky critter native to East Asia.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/real-animals-that-look-fake-1850262373

However, a more significant concern applies to invasive mammal species like the American mink and common raccoon dog, which have had a detrimental effect on local wildlife populations and also require control measures.

Source: https://spectator.sme.sk/c/23222091/invasive-bird-species-pose-challenges-to-slovakias-native-wildlife.html

In the far southwest corner of the market, he saw stacked cages of wildlife, including a raccoon dog.

Source: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/04/29/he-nearly-died-pursuing-hivs-origins-then-this-canadian-scientist-set-his-sights-on-the-covid-lab-leak-theory-heres-what-he-found.html

So, all they did was show that, in the same swab, they had nucleic acid from a raccoon dog and nucleic acid from COVID.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/03/21/redfield-media-coverage-of-covid-origins-antithetical-to-science/

View of a raccoon dog at the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City on Aug. 6, 2015.

Source: https://theintercept.com/2023/05/10/covid-pandemic-origin-raccoon-dog/