Foxsoon?

This is the first version of Name that Animal. We have many stray cats that travel through our back yard. Some Japanese cats and some American, you wonder how I can tell their origin? Well I've learned a little something since I have been here. Japanese cats have short little nubbin tails, and we all know American cats have long tails. You do from time to time see a cat with half a tail and this would be a mixed culture cat. Anyway, one day we were looking outside our back window and this was the animal we saw. We are calling it a Foxsoon, and so if anyone knows the real name of this strange looking Japanese animal please let us know.