Lost "Puppy" Discovered By Japanese Man Turns Out To Not Be A Puppy At All

The man decided to take care of the "puppy" while attempting to find its owner

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• Published in Animal Stories
• May 17, 2020

What's better than a surprise puppy? Glad you asked (especially if you love puppies.)

The world is full of surprises, a lot of things end up being more complicated than they seem. But as long as these surprises turn out to be pleasant, there's really nothing to fear. 

Speaking of pleasant surprises, a Twitter user who goes by the name @marcy_com managed to find himself in a weird situation when he found a lost "puppy" beside the road on National Route 275. The "puppy" didn't seem old enough to be able to take care of herself, so he decided to take the little dog in until he could manage to find her owner. 

He named the puppy Luna and decided to Tweet about his experience in an attempt to find the puppy's owner, but he definitely did not expect the replies that he got as people everywhere got a good look at his puppy and everyone collectively realized it was not your average dog.

A lot of people on social media suspected that Luna was not even a puppy.

After @marcy_com posted a cute video where the "puppy" was barking in a weird manner, several people in the replies were unsure if Luna was even an actual puppy. Some other people suggested that her face seemed similar to a tanuki, a raccoon dog, in Japanese. 

The replies on @marcy_com's Tweets raised a lot of suspicions, some people even had a feeling that it was in fact a fox cub. That's when he finally realized why no one came forward to claim the Luna, the "puppy" actually ended up being a wild fox cub (or kitsune in Japanese).

Owning foxes as pets is actually illegal in Japan, considering how they may carry dangerous parasites that can be transmitted to humans, which is why @marcy_com started looking for a place that would take care of Luna.

He ended up finding an institution called North Fox Farm in a town in Hokkaido called Kitami. Experts there determined that she could be between one to two months old. She will stay there until she grows up and becomes strong enough to fend for herself and forage for food.

Luna-chan taking a nap next to her new best friend

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