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Dear Papabear

I’m a young furry of age 14 and I’m kinda confused on what I as a young fur should expect from the furry world, what should I avoid, what should I stay to. I just want advice I guess on fursuiting, furry chat rooms, and most of all what is being a furry all about?

a fellow fur warrewolf,

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Dear Warrewolf,

It’s always nice to welcome young furries to our ranks. Welcome, welcome!

So, what is furry all about? Mostly, as you know, it is about people who love the world of anthropomorphic characters, whether that is the fictional world of characters that have already been created—everything from Disney and anime creatures to the world of comic books and modern graphic novels—or original creations by furries themselves.

You probably found stuff on the Internet, social sites and so forth, that have caught your interest. There are also furmeets and furcons and lots of social activities, both online and in real life, including fursuiting, but many others.

Basically, your involvement in furry is what you make of it. You can be a little involved or a lot. Since you are an underage furry, I would first tell you to avoid the adult sites, such as e621.net and furriesxtreme. Also, be careful not to always trust instantly what people say online about their age; quite a few people lie about being younger or older for various reasons. Most people are honest, but I’m just saying sometimes it is best to be a little cautious and suspicious of people until you know them well.

If you’re really new at furry, a good place to do some research and looking around is Wikifur. Make use of the search engine to learn about the fandom, past and present.

Next, start to familiarize yourself with what is going on in the fandom by checking out a furry news site such as Flayrah or FurryNewsNetwork. This will give you a good idea of what’s going on in the world of furry.

Then, see if there is a furcon or furmeet in your area and, if possible, attend them.  At your age, you will need permission from your parent or guardian to do so, but you can still check them out.

As for fursuiting, it is not for everyone, but about 20 percent of furries get into it, like me. If you’re interested in it, ask the fursuiters themselves about it. Remember, fursuiting can be a costly investment (typical prices range from $1,000 and up), plus maintaining your fursuit, and learning how to perform in it. So learn more about it before you become a fursuiter yourself.

The best part of being a furry is the friends you will make. It’s best for you to find some furries your own age for socializing, but older, more experienced furries can teach you a lot about the fandom. If you get to a furcon, attending the forums is a super way to learn stuff, too.

The most important thing for you to do when it comes to furries and the fandom is have fun with them!  Isn’t that the whole reason we are furries? Relax and enjoy!

Hugs,

Papabear

Anyone reading this who wants to offer more advice for a beginning furry, please chime in!

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c/o GreenReaper on Flayrah, here is an article from The Indianapolis Star. It concerns this weekend's IndyFurCon.

http://www.indystar.com/article/20120810/THINGSTODO/208100341/IndyFurCon-attracts-Furries-from-far-wide-weekend


When Erin LaMar met her husband, she was surrounded by animals.

People dressed like animals, anyway.

LaMar, 31, met her husband, Mike, at the inaugural IndyFurCon, Indiana's first convention of the furry fans, which celebrates a genre of entertainment featuring anthropomorphic animal characters with human characteristics.

Fans enjoy its animal-centric literature, art, film and other media. Some of them also dress up as animal characters, with costumes ranging from a simple ears-and-tail ensemble to full-body suits.

LaMar, the convention's secretary, doesn't dress in costume but made friends in the fandom after an ex-boyfriend introduced her to a group of local furries.

She was working on staff at the first convention when she met her husband-to-be. He isn't a furry either, but came with a friend to check out the event.

Although LaMar isn't a furry, she has found friends in the local furry community and at the convention itself.

"I've always kind of joked that it's like going to Disney World, but everyone gets to be the characters," she said. "I'm more there for the socialization part of it -- being able to meet new people."

Indianapolis has had a community of furries known as the Whoozfurs since around 1998, said Scott Stauffer, 29, president of Whoozfur Inc., a nonprofit organization created to manage IndyFurCon. The Whoozfur community, like most of furry fandom, is primarily online, but members also have monthly meet-ups such as cook-outs and bowling nights.

A common stereotype is that furries wear their animal costumes during sexual encounters. While a minority of furries do enjoy such interactions, many simply admire artwork featuring anthropomorphized animals or wearing costumes socially.

The majority of Whoozfurs fall into the latter category, Stauffer said, although they welcome people of all interests and preferences.

A few years ago, a group of Whoozfurs toyed with the idea of starting a convention over a pizza outing. They held the first edition of IndyFurCon in 2010, and this weekend's event will be the third annual installment.

"It's basically just like a small version of Gen Con but instead of Star Trek and Star Wars it's cartoon animals and mascots," Stauffer said.

Gen Con Indy is an Indianapolis-based gaming convention that will start Aug. 16.

IndyFurCon opens Friday at noon and runs through Sunday. It includes panels and other events, including the improv show "Whose Lion Is It Anyway?," a charity auction, and Iron Artist, a competition modeled after "Iron Chef," in which artists have one hour to create a piece incorporating a mystery item.

The staff considers eventgoers' suggestions for future conventions each year, LaMar said. People have asked for more games and entertainers, and this year the convention will offer more of those options.

The biggest draw is the Snerf War, a massive Nerf-gun battle, she said. The staff often extends the time limit each year so people can keep playing.

Attendees hail from the convention's home state and from countries like Australia and Japan, Stauffer said. The first year, 350 people came, followed by a slight increse to 376 the following year. The staff expects a crowd of about 450 this weekend.

"The furry community is very online, and they don't always get to see everybody that they know," he said. "It's a place and time for everybody to get together in one location."

Paul Crozier, a 35-year-old pharmacist, lives in Canada but has staffed IndyFurCon every year. He is director of guest relations this year.

Crozier met Stauffer and other Whoozfurs at another convention and became fast friends.

About a year after getting involved in the furry fandom, he decided to get a costume. At most furry conventions, between 20 and 25 percent of attendees have full suits, he said.

Some just aren't interested in dressing up, while others balk at the price. Partial costumes, like the one Crozier wears, can cost around $1,000, while full suits can rack up bills as high as $5,000, he said.

Crozier, a Star Trek fan, dons a Star Trek uniform along with his custom-made panda hands, feet, head and tail when he dresses as his character, Pandez Panda.

"I guess when I was in school, some people wanted to be the football player or the cheerleader. I wanted to be the mascot," he said. "I wanted to be the one psyching up the crowd."

Stauffer also has a costumed persona, or fursona. His is a tiger named Tora NightProwler.

The suits, while fun to wear, have a downside: they are furry sweatboxes.

At the convention, people can visit the Headless Lounge, where they can take off their animal heads, sit in front of a fan and gulp down water.

"Wearing a fur suit, you can burn off five pounds just by walking up a hallway," Crozier said.

Whether attendees like to dress like tigers or are just coming to see the art, IndyFurCon is open to everyone.

From people intensely involved in the fandom to those who are merely intrigued by it and want to learn more, all are welcome, LaMar said.

For many people, IndyFurCon is their first furry convention.

"We're kind of the place where people get their feet wet," she said. "We are there if you want to come and out and have a good time. If you want to see what it's about. We're not hiding."

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Also, this weekend (starting now) is IndyFurCon or IFC, which takes place in no-less Indianapolis, Indiana . The fun-filled weekend will put furries in the Sheraton where they will enjoy drinking, yiffing and other things that happen at cons. I hope everyone has a blast and takes lots of pics so I can see! Also for any Ham-radio (not a radio with Ham, the other kind)  operators or those other machines that do radio stuff here is what IFC says: For simplex radio communcations @indyfurcon use frequency 145.480 mhz and For any @furryhams, our local repeater is 146.700.

British/Canadian wuff here...I'll be backpacking in the UK soon, looks like October. I'm curious if any of the /r/furry members reside across the pond? If so, where, and would anyone be willing to get to communicating and hanging out if/when I'm in your area? Just think it'd be cool to meet some international furs :3

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An article in the NewsMail, a daily newspaper serving Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia:
http://www.news-mail.com.au/story/2012/08/09/fur-tastic-fun-for-all/

The article previews the first meeting of the Bundaberg furry community, to occur at the Bundaberg Botanic Gardens on Sunday.



WHAT do you get if you put a giant fox, dingo, husky, lion and rat in the same place?

The first meeting of the Bundaberg furry community.

Confused? Well taking a walk through the Bundaberg Botanic Gardens on Sunday may or may not clear things up, but either way it will be an interesting sight.

Hayden Grant (aka Bingo Fox) and Maui Warrigal will dress up in their animal fur suits this weekend with up to 10 other animal characters for an afternoon of fur suiting.

"I first heard about it 2-3 years ago," Mr Grant said.

"I found out there was a conference being held in Brisbane and went along.

"From there I was hooked; I came up with my animal persona and about six month later my Bingo Fox costume was ready."

Mr Grant said the freedom of taking on an animal persona, a fursona, was what attracted him to anthropomorphic animals with human characteristics.

"Think of talking cartoon animals, sports team mascots and you have an idea of what it's all about," he said.

"Your animal character can have a completely different personality.

"It's just a lot of fun to dress up and run around."

And the trend is also big business, especially in America.

"Conferences and meeting in America attract thousands of furries," he said.

"Costumes can cost anywhere from $500 to $5000."

Brisbane's annual furry event, RivFur, attracts up to 150 furries, while on the Gold Coast an annual event sees more than 300 come together.

And while the BundyFur group has only been in existence for about two weeks, it has already gained interest from numerous furries.

"Furries will be travelling from Brisbane and Gladstone for this event," Mr Grant said.

"It all started after Maui and I decided that we wanted to go suiting again before summer.

"Now we currently have 15 registered people that will be attending, not including their friends and family."

Bundaberg's first FurMeet will take place on Sunday at the Bundaberg Botanic Gardens from 10am-3pm.

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Author: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MCvoogA5O6M/Tm2D_-kouBI/AAAAAAAAAGE/osI9PlSHD4s/s72-c/episode6.pngHey everyone. Just a quick post announcing that Nick and David have invited me [AKA SliceOfDog] to be a contributor here. I won’t have as much to announce as the other two, but I’ll be swinging by every now and again and hopefully taking part in the show itself more in the future. So [...] House Pets: New Contributer

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If you haven’t seen it so far, Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters is the latest “re-imagining” of a classic product line to premier on The Hub network — in this case back in June. Kaijudo is a new version of the Duel Masters series by Wizards of the Coast (which, like The Hub, is a division of Hasbro Toys). This time around, the creators of this new show (specifically Andrew Robinson and Henry Gilroy from The Hub) wanted to have a different take on the “young kids and their fighting pet monsters” genre. The creatures of Kaijudo come to Earth from another dimension, and they can’t just be called up or sent back by the flip of a card. What’s more, our hero — a young boy named Ray, voiced by Scott Wolf) — has a special power of empathy with the monsters, and so he is very connected when they are hurt or made to suffer.  According to the creators, they wanted a show where the heroes, the villains, and even the companion monsters show much more personality than shows like these have seen in the past.  Have they succeeded? Find out for yourself. New episodes of Kaijudo currently air on The Hub on Saturdays at 8 pm Eastern, 5 pm Pacific. Check out the official Kaijudo web page from The Hub as well.

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