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Inside the Chinese fur farms which breed 'raccoon dogs' in tiny cages and skin them alive to make luxury coats sold in the West http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2867219/Inside-Chinese-fur-farms-breed-raccoon-dogs-tiny-cages-skin-alive-make-luxury-coats-sold-West.html This footage exposes the Chinese fur farms where a distant relation to dogs are skinned alive en-masse and turned into luxury coats sold in the West. Animal rights activists smuggled secret cameras into farms and markets near Beijing, where they spent three weeks pretending to be potential business partners from Europe. There they filmed the industrial scale of fur farming, a practice banned in Britain 14 years ago but largely unrestricted in many other countries including China. Raccoon dogs are a type of canine but the breed is described as 'Asiatic raccoon' on luxury coat labels, partly due to off-putting comparisons with domestic pets. The activists claim the animals they saw on the two farms, each holding 300 or 400 raccoon dogs, were confined to faeces-filled cages barely larger than their bodies.