Real Life
The Wonderful World of Furries
What's your fursona?
Furries — you may also know them as “those people who think they’re animals and have a weird fetish for fur.”
If that is indeed what you have been lead to believe — Let me stop you right there.
They have gotten bad press in the media, by those who know nothing about their culture and don’t care to either.
After all, why let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Put simply, furries are fans in the same way we have LoTR fans, Star Trek fans, Star Wars fans, Harry Potter fans, cosplayers, re-enactment and living history groups, and LARPers. However, furries are different from other subcultures because it doesn’t follow specific media, like Star Trek for example.
At first glance, it seems like anthropomorphic animals are a bizarre thing to have an interest in. But when you consider most of the adults of today grew up watching Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, the Chipmunks, Rescue Rangers, Garfield…
