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Our cute Raccoon Dog post (directly below this one) just took a turn for crudeness and hilarity. Thanks to the combined efforts of readers Hypatia and pough, we now know that #1 - Raccoon dogs are known in Japanese folklore to have the magical ability to expand their scrotums and #2 - we got our hands on some truly classic old woodprint images from mid 1800s Japan. Raccoon Dogs fishing and walking on the street Raccoon Dogs river fishing and sheltering from an evening shower. Raccoon dogs doing something religious and depicted as the seven lucky gods (guess Buddhism is a little mellower…