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Wanderer
Joined: Sat Oct 29, 2011 6:07 pm Posts: 1014 Location: Hiding in the cave behind the waterfall
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 Re: Are You A Furry?
Furries amuse me. I'm glad they exist. Seriously, go to a full furry community. You'll have a bunch of laughs.
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Sleet
Bringing Foxy Back
Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 13739 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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Most of them terrify me.
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| Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:54 pm |
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Seth
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Joined: Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:32 am Posts: 4961 Location: The place between places where the shadows are long and the sidewalk ends.
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 Re: Are You A Furry?
C'mon Sleet where's your sense of morbid curiosity? I agree wih wanderer some of the more extreme aspects of the community can be hilarious (though terrifying is often also a fitting adjective)
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The Grey Wolverine
Joined: Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:51 pm Posts: 2097 Location: A town known as Halifax Massachusetts
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 Re: Are You A Furry?
I'd hide my kits from some parts of the community.
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| Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:27 pm |
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Sleet
Bringing Foxy Back
Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 13739 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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I don't intend to introduce them to the fandom at all. If they discover it on their own, fine, but I don't think it's necessary.
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| Sun Sep 30, 2012 10:09 pm |
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texascat018
Joined: Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:02 pm Posts: 1570 Images: 2 Location: Manisnowba Canada
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Since my brother is exposed to furry fadom enviorment (because I am intrested in it). I think he might be furry in decent future. He reads anthro comic and I think he is not that far from discovering the Fur Fandom. ''ll see... Tho I don't want him to be one... I don't know why.
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Nyaliva
Joined: Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:18 am Posts: 392 Location: Australia
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 Re: Are You A Furry?
It's likely a combination of individuality and protection. You don't want him to be following you around trying too hard to be a furry with you and like you, making it seem annoying and remove all the meaning out of the fursona you've made for yourself. On another note, you grew up liking anthro a certain way and your liking of anthro developed in such a way that you avoided the less seemly side of the fandom, however you can't be sure the same will happen for your brother, so best he stayed away from it.
I'd never introduce my kids to the fandom itself, they'll likely find it on their own, but I don't see anything wrong with introducing them to the medium. I mean, how many books were read to us as kids that had talking animals? I'll simply have books that they can read past age 5.
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NightFox
Joined: Thu Aug 05, 2010 5:40 pm Posts: 106
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yes and I guess you could say I am a german shepherd. but not literally at all, because dogs can't type
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DingoVolf
Joined: Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:17 am Posts: 118 Location: lasers
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 Re: Are You A Furry?
Most of humanity is fairly scary, furs just tend to wear their hearts/souls/pants on their sleeves, so their idiosyncrasies are a bit more obvious if not glaring. The all-inclusiveness can also be an issue, but just like any other collection of people, you filter through the jerks, weirdos, buttheads and creeps, and you'll find some downright awesome folks.
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| Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:53 am |
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Sleet
Bringing Foxy Back
Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 13739 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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I just got an image of some furries wearing pant legs over their arms and flailing around.
HEY YOU. STOP THAT. PUT THEM ON RIGHT.
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| Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:01 am |
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DingoVolf
Joined: Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:17 am Posts: 118 Location: lasers
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 Re: Are You A Furry?
 Will you still love, like, tolerate me? :D
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Dissension
Totally Not Rick
Joined: Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:42 pm Posts: 6958
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 Re: Are You A Furry?
Sleet has one gray eye.
Also, I'm pretty sure that's not what she meant.
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| Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:43 pm |
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Wanderer
Joined: Sat Oct 29, 2011 6:07 pm Posts: 1014 Location: Hiding in the cave behind the waterfall
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 Re: Are You A Furry?
I'd shove my kids at those parts of the community and leave them there. But that's if I had kids. I don't want any kids, I hate them!
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| Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:49 pm |
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Sleet
Bringing Foxy Back
Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 13739 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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That picture is lovely, though the eye is wrong like Diss said.
I love the tail coming out of the heck hole.
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Luvindonesia
Joined: Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:51 pm Posts: 56 Location: Jakarta,indonesia
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i'm just wondering here what is the difference between a furry lifestyler and a furry?
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Sleet
Bringing Foxy Back
Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 13739 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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I honestly have no idea what a furry lifestyler is other than someone who takes the furry fandom too seriously.
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DingoVolf
Joined: Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:17 am Posts: 118 Location: lasers
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 Re: Are You A Furry?
Back in the day, a furry lifestyler was usually someone who might act out as an animal or feel some deeper connection to animals, where a furry could just be someone who just thought anthro critters were pretty neat, collected some art and liked to talk about Lion King. Lifestylers weren't usually (nor on average considered themselves as) 'weres' or serious animal spiritualists, but tended to be into the whole anthropomorphic idea, and take it more to heart in their daily lives more than your average fan.
Keep in mind that you ask 100 people about what defines one aspect of furryness from another, and you will get well over 200 different opinions. :)
Also, Sleet, on the 20 mins I doodled that thing on my phone, all the ref I had was that androgyny sig banner that sometimes comes up under yer posts. :) I'll fix it when I put it up on FA if that's cool. (also which eye?)
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Sleet
Bringing Foxy Back
Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 13739 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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My right eye is grey.
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| Tue Oct 02, 2012 6:16 pm |
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The Grey Wolverine
Joined: Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:51 pm Posts: 2097 Location: A town known as Halifax Massachusetts
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I am not your eye! *shot*
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mrsticky005
Joined: Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:36 am Posts: 22
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I am most definitely NOT a furry and as spokesperson for the Fuzzy Wuzzy Sluzzy? Foundation I am going to have to ask all of you who have most outrageously violated Section 9 of the Teddy Graham Convention of 1772 to please return your glitter papers and have your tonsils promptly removed. If you are unable to do so due to a condition uncommonly known as FurcyclatronicJetskifurryitis you may be eligible for Free Housing in the Jamarmaladelly Dimension.
Thank you for your cooperation and remember spit twice thrice spat it's a dog not a cat.
...Except after C.
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MilesKingford
Joined: Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:25 am Posts: 540
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Indoctrination does not have to be something strong or overwhelming, it just needs the presence of the intention. If you have material about your home, like furry stuff, thinking that your child might adopt a particular idea from them, like becoming a furry, then you are obviously indirecting influencing the ideas that child gains, you know it could happen so by allowing it you intend it to happen. After all, would you leave racist or . My mother dropped me when I was a child, which explains my actions entirely material about your home where your children would find them? And if not, why not? If you truly think they are capable of having their own ideas regardless, then why not test it? I know you wouldn't because children can and will be indoctrinated, in one form or another, by what they are surrounded by during their development. It is not just a case of getting the wrong ideas, it is the fact it would be near impossible to break someone of their indoctrinated state, they simply will not abandon their ideas, regardless of what anyone says, until they recognise their state for themselves.
As for the solution, there is no way to break the effects of indoctrination once they are rooted, only if the indoctrinated subject sees their condition for themselves can it be ended. But, for those still not biased, the only way to prevent indoctrination is through education, or more importantly, giving your child the ability to learn without "assistance". Only seeing an interest, idea or viewpoint from every angle and every argument can one make an educated decision on what kind of relationship they want with it, and the child should be able to gather this information independently through their own efforts (since others, regardless how hard they might try, will spin it in the direction they approve of, people always have and always will).
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Seth
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Joined: Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:32 am Posts: 4961 Location: The place between places where the shadows are long and the sidewalk ends.
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Again I think your definiton of indoctrination is much too broad. Exposure and indoctrination are two different things. Since your definition is obviously not changing and neither is mine I'm not going to waste any more time debating the matter.
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Sleet
Bringing Foxy Back
Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 13739 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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Jeez, I think you're overreacting. I'll have furry stuff in the house because I like it. It's not like it'll be an effort to make my child like the same things as me.
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texascat018
Joined: Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:02 pm Posts: 1570 Images: 2 Location: Manisnowba Canada
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I iz pretty good at long term memorizing?
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CanadianHero
Joined: Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:47 pm Posts: 79 Location: Look Up
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Hm, well I'm not a dedicated furry... but occasionally I would put dog ears on my head and little paws and call myself Carl. My mom actually is a semi-furry like me, she dresses like a cat and rabbit. It's quite cute  I'm becoming Otaku quite quickly though. ^J^
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Dissension
Totally Not Rick
Joined: Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:42 pm Posts: 6958
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 Re: Are You A Furry?
Let's take the indoctrination discussion out of this thread - it's gotten off-topic.Sleet's cybernetic eye is gray. The original eye was yellow.
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Sleet
Bringing Foxy Back
Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 13739 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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GameCobra
Joined: Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:27 am Posts: 2928 Location: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
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My family knows I love pets, but I mostly push towards cats because cats just naturally draw my attention. Also, dogs licking me? immediate bath. and i hate baths from something as silly as dog slobber or spilled food. My pet husky is now a prime example of the recent increase in baths recently. thanks, sis. I'm considering myself a furry again, but let's face it ~ it's hard to judge when there's only a broad range of things furry that i like. The primary things are cats, dogs and dragons. lizard men are cool also, but i blame Skyrim and Baldur's gate for that. I also blame Digimon also for many of the intelligent digital animals out there. Digimon no doubt is a huge reason i started getting into the artistic view of furry-like fandom, but because it's better when art has it's own mind and voice and story put into it moreso than any cartoon, especially stuff like Samurai Pizza Cats. >.>
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NightFox
Joined: Thu Aug 05, 2010 5:40 pm Posts: 106
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is there any particular reason for that? because it's rather silly
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Sleet
Bringing Foxy Back
Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 13739 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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Dogs' mouths are generally pretty clean. I'll wash my paws if they lick them, but then again I wash my paws if I pet them.
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FlintTheSquirrel
Joined: Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:30 pm Posts: 2374 Location: Sweden/North Carolina
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Dogs eat the weirdest and often most disgusting things sometimes. Guess that is a reason.
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NightFox
Joined: Thu Aug 05, 2010 5:40 pm Posts: 106
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washing your hands is fine. but taking a bath because of such a small thing seems like a bit of an overreaction
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Dissension
Totally Not Rick
Joined: Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:42 pm Posts: 6958
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 Re: Are You A Furry?
That's certainly an opinion. GameCobra's opinion is clearly different. The forum rules preclude putting someone down for any reason, regardless.
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GameCobra
Joined: Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:27 am Posts: 2928 Location: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
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Bingo. It's just one of those things i can't get out of my mind with dogs. Not that i consier my dog walking around with diseases, but our pets have eaten bubble gum from sidewalks and garbage before we could stop them, which lead me to the fear that they could have anything on them when licking me. It's more of a precaution i find, but i just gotten into a bad habit of it lately with dogs the more i see them do this sort of thing. Doesn't bother me much when it's my hands since i just wash them, but it's when they go for the face and feet that I find it's bath time. X3
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NightFox
Joined: Thu Aug 05, 2010 5:40 pm Posts: 106
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I'm not pitting him down. I'm trying to have a conversation. but alright, I'll try to lighten it up even more I can understand that. sometimes it is really hard to keep your mind off what they may have had in their mouths. but honestly some of the things we eat on purpose have been in much worse places lol. I try not to think a lot about processed food
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Foxstar
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
Joined: Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:00 am Posts: 1141
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I love my dog, but given what i've seen him eat, I'm glad he's not much of a licker.
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Sleet
Bringing Foxy Back
Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 13739 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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Foxes are dogs and my oral hygiene is good! 
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| Wed Nov 28, 2012 3:11 pm |
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Seth
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Joined: Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:32 am Posts: 4961 Location: The place between places where the shadows are long and the sidewalk ends.
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well maybe for a fox but by normal standards............
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tychoaussie
Joined: Mon May 14, 2012 12:00 pm Posts: 81 Location: East lansing, MI
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Considering that Chocolate is toxic to dogs, and that there's so many other things that they munch on that doesn't appear to affect them,
I have to wonder if maybe all this stuff we perceive as nasty is perhaps mostly cultural perception.
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Sleet
Bringing Foxy Back
Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 13739 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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Hey, I brush and eat milkbones!
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