A tiny tanuki has gained many internet fans after a cute video of him being tickled when he was four weeks old was shared online.

The video above shows Freddie, a pet from Lincolnshire with his own Facebook page, squeal and play with his owner and pet shop owner Alyss Dickinson.

A tanuki is another name for a Japanese raccoon dog – an animal native to Japan that is neither a dog nor a raccoon – despite looking like a cross between the two.

Freddie is now five months old and is one of Dickinson’s many exotic pets. She also keeps meerkats, a tortoise, a skunk, more than 20 snakes, five tarantulas, two lizards and a barn owl at her home.

Video credit: Storyful/YouTube/Alyss Dickinson