Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus have both settled a lawsuit filed by the Humane Society of the United States, which contended the luxury department stores mislabeled garments trimmed with raccoon dog fur as faux fur. The Humane Society had previously obtained settlements from two other defendants—Lord & Taylor and Andrew Marc—which leaves Macy’s as the final defendant-holdout, according to WWD.

As part of the settlement, Saks has agreed to stricter label standards for fur vs. not-fur, while Neimans has been ordered to pay $25K to the Humane Society, in addition to clearer labeling of its fur products.

But for those of us who don’t wear fur nor study furrier trends, what exactly is a raccoon dog? Turns out it’s a relative of the fox and wolf families, lives in East Asia, is non-aggressive, cuter than the rascal urban raccoons tipping your garbage cans over in L.A. and makes up a large percentage of fur products exported from China. “They are not [an endangered or threatened species], just horribly mistreated in cage confinement operations,” Humane Society spokesman Pierre Grzybowski told Style Section L.A. “Several sources have documented raccoon dogs skinned alive in China, which is the number one producer of raccoon dogs for fur.” —Paul Dexter