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Just in from @FSMikey, Mikey and Big Bob present the Furry Freestyle Rap dedicated to all the furries hangin at Anthrocon!

 

 

Awesome guys!

I feel SOOO wrong for liking this picture.

When Jan Van Dusen appeared before a U.S. Tax Court judge and a team of Internal Revenue Service lawyers more than a year ago, there was more at stake than her tax deduction for taking care of 70 stray cats.

Hanging in the balance were millions of dollars in annual tax deductions by animal-rescue volunteers across the nation—and some needed clarity on the treatment of volunteers' unreimbursed expenses for 1.55 million other IRS-recognized charities.

Piercing kittens to give them a “goth” appearance is cruel, a panel of Pennsylvania judges has ruled.

Three judges of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania on Monday affirmed a lower court conviction for animal cruelty of a dog groomer who had offered “gothic” kittens on eBay.

The groomer, Holly Crawford of Sweet Valley, Pa., offered the kittens for $100; Judge Kate Ford Elliott wrote in a 19-page opinion that “metal protruded from the kittens’ small bodies, pierced through their ears and necks, and at least one of these kittens also had an elastic band tied around its tail, an attempt at docking, which is a procedure to stem the blood flow so that the tail eventually falls off.”

An investigator for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals posed as a customer and met with Ms. Crawford in 2008 and reported her to the authorities. The kittens were seized, and a jury found Ms. Crawford guilty of animal cruelty; in April of last year she was sentenced to six months of home detention and electronic monitoring, followed by probation.

Ms. Crawford, who was described in the opinion as having “several facial piercings” and being “enthusiastic about piercing,” had admitted to piercing the kittens herself without anesthetic, though she did treat them with antiseptic after the procedure.

In her appeal, Ms. Crawford had argued that Pennsylvania’s cruelty statutes were too vague, and said many accepted veterinary procedures like declawing cats and cutting a dog’s vocal cords could fall under the same category of “acts that maim, mutilate, torture or disfigure the animal” that she had been convicted of.

Judge Elliott wrote, “Appellant’s claims center on her premise that a person of normal intelligence would not know whether piercing a kitten’s ears or banding its tail is maiming, mutilating, torturing or disfiguring an animal.”

The judge added, “We disagree.”

France was punished on Thursday for not taking proper care of its hamsters.

The Court of Justice in Luxembourg, the European Union’s highest court, ruled Thursday that France had failed to protect the Great Hamster of Alsace, sometimes known as the European hamster, the last wild hamster species in Western Europe. If France does not adjust its agricultural and urbanization policies sufficiently to protect it, the court said, the government will be subject to fines of as much as $24.6 million.

The Great Hamster, which can grow up to 10 inches long, has a brown-and-white face, white paws and a black belly. There are thought to be about 800 left in France, with burrows in Alsace along the Rhine. That is an improvement: the number had dropped to fewer than 200 four years ago, according to figures from the European Commission, which brought the lawsuit in 2009.

Dressed in a surrogate mom costume, Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center volunteer Colleen Grzan encourages a bobcat named Crystal Spring to eat mice.

Here's the trailer for the "Shrek" spin-off, "Puss in Boots."

It's that time of year, so here's an article about Anthrocon on wtae.com:
"Furries Are Back In Pittsburgh".

It includes a link to a photo gallery.

http://rumbunter.com/2011/06/22/pittsburgh-prepares-for-red-sox-invasion-release-the-inner-animal/

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Anthrocon Room Key

Comment below to let people know to look for you!  If you’re going to be on Twitter – leave your Twitter name.  Not a good idea to leave phone numbers or your regular email – if you want to leave an email, use a disposable one that you will ditch after Anthrocon.

Also, if you want any photos or videos you shoot featured on FNN, be sure to use the “Submit to FNN” link

While at Anthrocon, look for some of FNN’s friends – the cast of Furcast, Curt Pehrson, FuzzWolf & the FurPlanet crew & Nuka with the Anthropomorphic Research Project.

Furcast will be conducting interviews for upcoming episodes of Furcast.  They will not have an episode Saturday, June 25, but will return July 2nd.

Curt Pehrson will be filming interviews for his next Furry documentary.

FuzzWolf & Furplanet will be in the Dealer’s Den at A16/17/18 and he’ll have his podcasting gear so he may be doing some impromptu interviews.  He will be at the Brony meet on Friday at 3pm in the Westin and may do some recording there for Bronyville

Nuka and Dr. Gerbasi will be kicking off the summer International Furry Survey (Link to the actual questions will be up after AC)  Nuka will also be doing a panel Friday afternoon at 4:30.  Be sure to stop by and hell him “Hi!”

Wait!  You’re going to Anthrocon and you don’t have a Furry name?  Generate one here! Furry Name Generator

While we were not able to make it to Anthrocon this year, we hope everyone has an excellent and safe time at the convention!

 

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ActFur s3 ep06 - Rockabilly

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Two newly-released trailers give us some further insight on a pair of films coming up later this year — films that furry fen might find interesting. Rise of the Planet of the Apes is directed by Rupert Wyatt, previously best known for his film The Escapist. Rise tells the story of a genetic scientist (played by current hot property James Franco) whose experiments with a brain-cell regenerating treatment lead to the creation of Caesar, a chimpanzee with the intelligence and will to lead his fellow apes in revolution against humans. Besides Mr. Franco and Andy Serkis (who plays the body-model for Caesar much as he did for Gollum in Lord of the Rings and King Kong in King Kong), Rise also stars Brian Cox, John  Lithgow, Freida Pinto, and Tom Felton (Draco from the Harry Potter movies). The film is set for release on August 5th, and the latest trailer up on YouTube shows how Caesar is raised by hand by humans, coming to care for them — and later, to resent them. Okay, so… from chimpanzees on to kitties. The newest trailer for Puss in Boots is out, though the film won’t hit theaters until November 4th. Antonio Banderas (of course) plays Puss, who hooks up with Humpty Dumpty (yes, the egg) and a flirty filcher of a feline named Kitty Softpaws, voiced by Selma Hayek.

Spotted at Best Buy this weekend: Chop Kick Panda. I have no idea what this is, but a clip on You Tube (embed below) doesn’t seem so bad – looks like a rejected Cartoon Network pilot (and I mean that as a compliment). Anyone know who’s responsible?

Author: toonces

Much appreciation to Not Tube for providing this week’s story!

Matins

Newberg’s eyes cracked open to the sound of bells. He had no alarm clock; many years ago his need for one had vanished. He had begun waking just a few seconds before it went off, and then found that he didn’t need to use it to wake at all, though he’d kept the thing for a while out of habit. The cool grey light of dawn filtered through the film-spotted windowpan… Read more..

Find the story here: The Bad Dog Book Club » Podcast

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