Are You A Furry?

matthew Wolf · Post by **matthew Wolf** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 8:34 pm

x3 i dont think i have ever done ever done anything like that but closest thing i can think of is i have sometimes found myselfe chewing on some things like a dog would when i was done with it it literly looked liked a dog mauled it it was something random like a lid to a water bottle

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:48 pm

I've never eaten dog food before, although my older sister did once trick my younger sister into doing it. I don't tend to chew things either. I actually hate gnawing on bones.

My fursona is actually an Eastern Quoll, just by the way.

Mon Oct 21, 2013 10:23 pm

Sleet wrote:
tychoaussie wrote:Err,
This might not be the best time to admit that I ate my breakfast cereal out of a dog bowl this morning. But to be fair, I did still use a spoon!@
I've eaten puppy chow (the homemade confection, not the brand of dog food) like a dog before. I even wore a collar.

oh hey, I've never heard them called that. that stuff's awesome, and I'd probably eat it without using my hands if I were particularly lazy
no collar though

Post by **Render** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 5:12 am

JeffCvt wrote:There is a standard that all pet food must be consumable by humans. It may not taste the best, but you should be able to eat anything and suffer no ill consequences.

It would not be good pet food, if you would get ill from eating it.
And the stuff is usually tested by trying it. Just like normal convenience food.

Hlaoroo wrote:My fursona is actually an Eastern Quoll, just by the way.

Ahm, OK - now I have to stop calling you little bunny...

Radio Blue Heart · Post by **Radio Blue Heart** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 6:58 am

JeffCvt wrote:There is a standard that all pet food must be consumable by humans. It may not taste the best, but you should be able to eat anything and suffer no ill consequences.

That is how Taco Bell is able to sell their tacos so cheap! They use Grade C meat, the lowest grade still considered safe for human consumption, the same used it dog food!

So, if you have eaten at Taco Bell you have technically eaten dog food!

Post by **Dissension** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 7:33 am

Actually, the 'grade' classification followed by a letter doesn't exist, but letters refer to maturity groups/the age of the cattle used in beef production. The USDA quality scale runs from prime through choice, select, standard, commercial, utility, and cutter to the lowest quality, canner. Here's what the USDA, the only official (US) authority on food quality classification, has to say.

Kyuunado · Post by **Kyuunado** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 1:22 pm

And food is also permitted a certain amount of fecal matter or insects (alive or dead) which boils down to 12 bits of bug being somewhere in your peanut butter. So if you wondered why it was crunchy...
But yeah, food quality standards should be better. Pets used to be fed off the table, not with cans.

Post by **Sleet** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 1:31 pm

If the standard were "zero," it would be ridiculously expensive to buy any food due to the cost of inspections.

Kyuunado · Post by **Kyuunado** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 1:52 pm

I'm not saying all food should be exceptional but I think that the fact I have probably just eaten half a roach drowned in peanut butter is pretty important. Moreover, I don't want to be eating bugs and random secretions.

Firenze · Post by **Firenze** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 3:26 pm

Yeah, I would have expected that pet food can be consumable by humans, but it's still kinda scary knowing what's inside the food that you eat. There are some cultures that actually eat bugs for a living though. Random secretions? Umm... I'm not entirely sure.

Radio Blue Heart · Post by **Radio Blue Heart** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 4:54 pm

If it puts your mind at ease, I actually had a really crappy summer job working in a ham factory. I was shocked at how clean it was. Every night the machines were flushed out with boiling hot water and a soap that had so much lye in it that it could burn your skin.

The element that made it horrible was my co-workers. Ugh...

Post by **Render** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 5:09 pm

Kyuubi Kitsune wrote:I'm not saying all food should be exceptional but I think that the fact I have probably just eaten half a roach drowned in peanut butter is pretty important. Moreover, I don't want to be eating bugs and random secretions.

It's not that the insects will fall in the finished peanut butter. They are between the peanuts when these are grounded.
And I am pretty sure you do not want to know about animals that are inside the cargo holds of ships carrying grain...

matthew Wolf · Post by **matthew Wolf** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 5:17 pm

Hlaoroo wrote:I've never eaten dog food before, although my older sister did once trick my younger sister into doing it. I don't tend to chew things either. I actually hate gnawing on bones.

My fursona is actually an Eastern Quoll, just by the way.

thats a somewhat different animal for most fursonas BUT it is kinda cute x3 ...... my mom still thinks its od though that i once called a mouse cute

Radio Blue Heart · Post by **Radio Blue Heart** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 5:38 pm

All this talk about food makes me wonder about the conventions of stories with furry characters. What would they eat? Would it be tantamount to cannibalism to eat another sentient being? And, what creatures would be sentient and which would not be? Or just bad etiquette?

As we all know, in "Housepets" all animals are sentient except probably for cows.

matthew Wolf · Post by **matthew Wolf** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 5:54 pm

would ...thay just not eate meat? idk

Post by **rickgriffin** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 7:02 pm

Kyuubi Kitsune wrote:I'm not saying all food should be exceptional but I think that the fact I have probably just eaten half a roach drowned in peanut butter is pretty important. Moreover, I don't want to be eating bugs and random secretions.

That's kinda unavoidable. No matter what you make, every food has a pretty high chance of having SOME kind of contamination in it. Even if you make it yourself. Fresh corn still probably has more dead aphids in it than anything you get from a can--it's kind of the issue with living in a world in which the things you need to sustain yourself all share an environment with icky things.

Duster · Post by **Duster** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 8:23 pm

Kyuubi Kitsune wrote:I'm not saying all food should be exceptional but I think that the fact I have probably just eaten half a roach drowned in peanut butter is pretty important. Moreover, I don't want to be eating bugs and random secretions.

Well, Bugs are a good source of protein.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 8:29 pm

Mudbugs are, anyway.

matthew Wolf · Post by **matthew Wolf** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 10:57 pm

..... my brother once somehow accidently swallowed a lighning bug when he was smaller >o< ick i dont know if thats good for you

Tue Oct 22, 2013 11:45 pm

so, I came across this on Tumblr

heya tycho

Kyuunado · Post by **Kyuunado** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 1:28 am

Pwhahahahahaha, that is awesome

Post by **Render** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 5:17 am

That's great!

You have pretty low ceilings there. Haven't you?

tychoaussie · Post by **tychoaussie** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 7:24 am

Ack!!!

It's everywhere!

My email box is jammed - they are coming in at a rate of 30 / hour - and now I'm even getting emails in french!

TinFoilHats · Post by **TinFoilHats** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 9:27 am

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:so, I came across this on Tumblr

heya tycho

*snk* That's awsome

.

Oblivious Adobo · Post by **Oblivious Adobo** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 10:22 am

Well, I haven't been here for a while. I came here to show that I came across the picture of Tycho on Tumblr, but it looks like you guys beat me to it. There's over 7,300 notes on Tumblr as of this post.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 10:24 am

Couldn't wait for Halloween?

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 10:58 am

Render wrote:
Hlaoroo wrote:My fursona is actually an Eastern Quoll, just by the way.
Ahm, OK - now I have to stop calling you little bunny...

Heh, I don't mind. I've only thought about making the fursona since I joined up here and I was originally thinking a bunny anyway, but I decided the quoll suited me better. I still love rabbits though.

matthew Wolf wrote:
Hlaoroo wrote:I've never eaten dog food before, although my older sister did once trick my younger sister into doing it. I don't tend to chew things either. I actually hate gnawing on bones.

My fursona is actually an Eastern Quoll, just by the way.
thats a somewhat different animal for most fursonas BUT it is kinda cute x3 ...... my mom still thinks its od though that i once called a mouse cute

I'm on your side! I think mice and rats are both adorable! That is, the non-disease ridden, pet ones, of course.

Radio Blue Heart wrote:All this talk about food makes me wonder about the conventions of stories with furry characters. What would they eat? Would it be tantamount to cannibalism to eat another sentient being? And, what creatures would be sentient and which would not be? Or just bad etiquette?

As we all know, in "Housepets" all animals are sentient except probably for cows.

I don't think it would be a problem. Grape has eaten mice before and she and Max have argued over a bird. Have we seen any pigs or sheep in this comic yet? I reckon they'd be similar to cows in that they wouldn't be anthropomorphised.

tychoaussie wrote:Ack!!!

It's everywhere!

My email box is jammed - they are coming in at a rate of 30 / hour - and now I'm even getting emails in french!

I'm not on Tumblr at all so it's good you guys put that post up here.
And I think it's official, Tycho. If you weren't before you definitely are now a celebrity.
Also, do you speak French?

matthew Wolf · Post by **matthew Wolf** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 1:08 pm

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:so, I came across this on Tumblr

heya tycho

omg i love that idea. You seem to olmost touch the ceiling x3

Post by **Render** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 1:18 pm

Hlaoroo wrote:
Render wrote:
Hlaoroo wrote:My fursona is actually an Eastern Quoll, just by the way.
Ahm, OK - now I have to stop calling you little bunny...
Heh, I don't mind. I've only thought about making the fursona since I joined up here and I was originally thinking a bunny anyway, but I decided the quoll suited me better. I still love rabbits though.

hm... ok.

You promoted yourself from prey to predator

Hlaoroo wrote:
tychoaussie wrote:Ack!!!

It's everywhere!

My email box is jammed - they are coming in at a rate of 30 / hour - and now I'm even getting emails in french!
I'm not on Tumblr at all so it's good you guys put that post up here.
And I think it's official, Tycho. If you weren't before you definitely are now a celebrity.
Also, do you speak French?

I don't think so... I was already thinking of sending an email in german.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 1:28 pm

Hlaoroo wrote: Heh, I don't mind. I've only thought about making the fursona since I joined up here and I was originally thinking a bunny anyway, but I decided the quoll suited me better. I still love rabbits though.

I just noticed, on Wikipedia: 'They were likened in appearance to a polecat or marten in the earliest reports, the tiger quoll being called "spotted marten"'

No way!

Post by **Sleet** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 1:57 pm

So Tycho, how are you going to address that student when you next see her?

tychoaussie · Post by **tychoaussie** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 2:13 pm

Sleet wrote:So Tycho, how are you going to address that student when you next see her?

We had class just today - I smiled, shook my head and said "So, what's up with twitter, anyway?" and she just shook her head in exasperation... No problems on this end - she just can't believe it took off like it did!

Cesco · Post by **Cesco** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 3:52 pm

Wow, that's cool and crazy, even at school.

Now you're experiencing the viral spreading effect.

matthew Wolf · Post by **matthew Wolf** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 3:55 pm

did theay take you seresely wearing that

x3

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 5:31 pm

Render wrote: hm... ok.
You promoted yourself from prey to predator

Yup. I'm moving up in the world. My mother would be proud.

Argent wrote:
Hlaoroo wrote: Heh, I don't mind. I've only thought about making the fursona since I joined up here and I was originally thinking a bunny anyway, but I decided the quoll suited me better. I still love rabbits though.
I just noticed, on Wikipedia: 'They were likened in appearance to a polecat or marten in the earliest reports, the tiger quoll being called "spotted marten"'

No way!

Yup. Although people nowadays sometimes call them "native cats". Should have gone to SpecSavers, hey Sixtoes?

Tycho, I wish my lecturers did something interesting like that rather than just droning. Hey, do you have a different voice you use for Tycho or do you just speak/teach using your normal voice?

tychoaussie · Post by **tychoaussie** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:14 pm

My body language is vastly different in how I walk, my posture, and my gestures. My voice is more lilting, perhaps the tiniest bit higher but for the most part I use my own voice. I'm a tenor when I sing so it's not a deep voice . There's a youtube video where I read a script for Adventures in odyssey, and it's pretty close to my tycho voice.

matthew Wolf · Post by **matthew Wolf** » Thu Oct 24, 2013 10:53 am

so it sound like your a different person in your fursuit :3

jrodsqod · Post by **jrodsqod** » Thu Oct 24, 2013 11:54 am

Holy mother.

Tychoaussie, you have just become my new favorite person.
Reasons why----
1.) You also live in MI.
2.) You're probably a State fan.
3.) You enjoy Adventures in Odyssey.
4.) You also enjoy Housepets.
Is there ANYONE on this forum who DOES NOT have a slightest thing in common with me!?
*raging hardcore >:( *

Thu Oct 24, 2013 1:44 pm

well if #4 counts, then no. We all have that in common.

TinFoilHats · Post by **TinFoilHats** » Thu Oct 24, 2013 2:35 pm

I used to listen to Adventures in Odyssey and I loved it. Heck, I still even have the CD's. (maybe thinking about getting into it again...)

Do you consider yourself a furry?