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Recently Cartoon Brew posted a new trailer for an upcoming Japanese animated film called Friends — Mononoke-jima no Naki (or Friends — Naki from Mononoke Island). According to various comments that follow the trailer, “the film is based on the Japanese fairytale “Naita Aka-oni,  or The Red Ogre who Cried”, where two ogres (or demons) – red ogre Naki and blue ogre Gunjo – find a human child, which starts off their adventure.” Various other creatures of Japanese myth and legend find their way into the adventure, including a kitsune. Though comparisons to Disney/Pixar’s film Monsters Inc. are obvious, according to reports the film is actually closer to Shrek – with a good amount of Duncan & Mallory and Dragonheart thrown in. The film was directed by Takashi Yamazaki, and it’s set to be released by Toho Studios this December.

 

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The Anthropomorphic Literature and Arts Association, which administers the annual Ursa Major Awards, has opened the 2011 Anthropomorphic Reading List.

All fans are invited to recommend what they feel are worthwhile anthropomorphic works in ten categories (motion pictures, dramatic short films or broadcasts, novels, short fiction, other literary works, graphic stories, comic strips, magazines, published illustrations, and games) first published during 2011. This Recommended List is often used by fans to nominate in the next year’s Ursa Major Awards.

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Author: Kyell Gold

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The contents of this Podcast may have adult language and adult themes. The content is not produced by Furry News Network, but is posted for your convenience.

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www.tanuke.com Analogues - 013 - May 6, 2011

Author: AshMCairo

Heavily armoured hounds — equipped with infrared night-sight cameras — have been used in the past by the top-secret unit.

The war dogs wear ballistic body armour that is said to withstand damage from single and double-edged knives, as well as protective gear which shields them from shrapnel and gunfire.

German Shepherds have been leading the way in SAS raids in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Wearing oxygen masks, the pooches have been trained to jump from aircraft at 25,000ft, before seeking out insurgents in hostile environments.

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When the O’Rourke family of Tucson found a couple of Easter-time bunnies in their back yard, they knew right away that something wasn’t quite right.

There was a reason the mother rabbit abandoned them. Paul O’Rourke realized one bunny they named Joe had no use of his hind legs. Paul and his family helped nurse the bunnies back to health, but then they went one step further to help the paraplegic bunny.

Paul’s son Liam designed and built a small cart for Joe to help him move around a little easier. The red wagon with yellow wheels took some getting used to, but ultimately seemed to improve his mobility.

After Joe and his brother were feeling a bit better, the O’Rourke family took them to a wildlife rescue center.

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When the O’Rourke family of Tucson found a couple of Easter-time bunnies in their back yard, they knew right away that something wasn’t quite right.

There was a reason the mother rabbit abandoned them. Paul O’Rourke realized one bunny they named Joe had no use of his hind legs. Paul and his family helped nurse the bunnies back to health, but then they went one step further to help the paraplegic bunny.

Paul’s son Liam designed and built a small cart for Joe to help him move around a little easier. The red wagon with yellow wheels took some getting used to, but ultimately seemed to improve his mobility.

After Joe and his brother were feeling a bit better, the O’Rourke family took them to a wildlife rescue center.

Fursuiters! Read up! Sounds like a nice upgrade for your suits.

"We covered brainwave-controlled wheelchairs from Japan before, so why not brainwave-controlled cat ears, dubbed Necomimi? The wearer concentrates or sees something interesting and the ears stand up. And when you relax, your decreasing brain activity makes the ears fall down. No, I am not making this up."

Author: Higgs Raccoon

Neurowear is developing a pair of cat ears which respond to the brain activity of their wearer.

Called “necomimi”, the ears are mounted on a headband containing sensors, which pick up brain activity and move the ears accordingly. As the wearer concentrates, the ears point upwards, and when they relax the ears flop down and forwards.

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Author: Fred

Amazon.com has entries for two new paperback novels published by Wizards of the Coast in the post-apocalyptic adventure-comedy D&D series “Gamma World” — a setting where “thousands of possible universes all condensed into a single reality”.

In “Sooner Dead” by Mel Odom, published in February: “A bio-engineered super-soldier named Hella and her mutant buffalo sidekick Stampede clash with armadillo bikers and inter-dimensional mutants across the ragged landscape of Gamma-Oklahoma.”

In “Red Sails in the Fallout” by Paul Kidd, to be published in July, two desert explorers named Shaani and Xoota – who seem from the cover picture to be anthropomorphic wallabies – “are followed home by a swarm of empathic earwigs.”

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Teal and Fuzz take a few minutes to remember Nicholas Courtney and Elisabeth Sladen who have both passed away recently.

Please send any comments or memories about Nick and Lis to WhoFurs@FurPlanet.com. We will be back with a regular episode in a few days. Feel free to write in with any comments, theories, etc about the first two episodes of Series 6.

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A prison guard dog has been fitted with titanium teeth in Australia after losing his real ones.

Axel, from Melbourne, is ready to sink his teeth into any would-be escapees after being fitted with the metal canine teeth.

They were fitted by veterinary dentist David Clarke after Axel shattered his teeth while biting into his bed board.

Dr Clarke said: "So much is spent on training working dogs that it ends up much cheaper to repair a dental problem than retire the dog.

"Prison dogs, police dogs, hunting, quarantine and customs dogs often suffer injuries in the course of their job."

While Axel's terrifying teeth are the result of an accident other dog owners are going to great lengths to ensure their pampered pooches have the perfect 'bite'.

Cosmetic dentistry is growing in popularity amongst dog owners - whether it is to repair a broken tooth or to ensure their show dogs have the whitest, straightest teeth possible.

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A long-standing issue regarding the potential legality of bestiality in Florida is expected to be put to ease soon with the governor’s signature.

Animal abuse cases have been known in Florida; many may have seen a story where a blind man named Alan Yoder, known as Jayren in the furry fandom, admitted performing sex acts with his guide dog — although in that case, the lack of a specific law did not prevent him being charged with felony animal cruelty.

Senate Bill 344 (full text), which makes acts of bestiality a first class misdemeanor, passed the House Wednesday at 115-0 and awaits Governor Rick Scott’s signature before becoming law. If signed, it becomes effective October 1. The Senate bill previously passed on a vote of 38-0.

Update (May 7): Noted the identity of the man sparking the case, provided by rodox_video.

31 U.S. states currently ban bestiality. It had been outlawed in Florida before, but in 1971 a Florida Supreme Court decision (Franklin v. State, 257 So.2d 21) struck down a 1868 law banning “unnatural” sexual acts using language such as “abominable and detestable”:

We do not, of course, here sanction historically forbidden sexual acts, homosexuality or bestiality. We only say that in this, as in any other conduct which is made a crime by statute, the forbidden conduct must be stated in terms which meet the constitutional test, i.e., that it is understood by the average man of common intelligence.

Last year the bestiality bill failed to pass, even though such a bill has been pushed for years in an attempt to stop animal abuse.

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The producer of the Rochester radio show The Breakfast Buzz contacted our office Wednesday, May 4th asking for information on the Furry Fandom. I had planned on just answering one or two questions, but the producer went ahead and put me on live with the shows morning hosts, Kimberly & Beck.

All of this was off the cuff and not rehearsed. I hope I didn’t embarrass the fandom.

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that he had been changed into an adorable kitten.

The phenomenal success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies inspired a massively popular literary-remix movement. Now Quirk Classics once again charts bold new territory, turning the monster-mash-up formula inside out to infuse Franz Kafka's horrific masterpiece, "The Metamorphosis," with the fuzziest, snuggliest, most adorable creatures possible: kittens!

Gregor Samsa is a humble young man who supports his unemployed parents and teenage sister by working as a traveling fabric salesman. But his life goes strangely wrong in the very first sentence of The Meowmorphosis, when he wakes up late for work and discovers that he has inexplicably become an adorable kitten.

His family must admit that, yes, their son is now OMG so cute—but what good is cute when there are bills to pay? How can Gregor be so selfish as to devote his attention to a ball of yarn? And how dare he jump out the bedroom window to wander through Kafka's literary landscape? Never before has a cat's tale been so poignant, strange, and horrifyingly funny.

You know, I've tried to hit on this furry angle before, when my rants sucked more (Most of them have since been deleted in favor of better ones).

And I came to the terms, with the assistance of a few good friends, that it's simply wrong for me to try to approach it in the manner I have in the past -- namely, trying to push the term "furry" further and further into the abyss of negativity, while distancing people like myself, who enjoy the milder forms of the fandom, from that negativity with terms like "anthro" or whatnot.

If that's still your bag, and you feel like that's how you have to deal with the obvious stereotyping problem that goes on among furries, more power to you -- but I'm gonna reword myself with this rant, and try to say what's really on my mind about the subject, and furthermore do my part to dispel stereotypes rather than hide from them...even though it's going to be like pissing in a sea of piss, and won't change much.


Here's my wager -- you are either going to really like this rant, or really hate it.

Either way, you're gonna...really.

Furry fandom has had more than its fair share of criticism, both from within and without. A Flayrah review of Shawn Keller's "Horrifying Look at the Furries" (2001) notes that Mr. Keller "associated furry with bestiality and pedophilia." A decade later, most of our critics do the same.

But the title was purposely provocative. This may come as a surprise, but I'm not talking about the furry fandom at all. Instead, I'm calling for more criticism of the furry genre.

This piece has three goals: to explain why criticism is needed, what kind of criticism, and finally to offer a few points of criticism as examples.

Heavily armoured hounds — equipped with infrared night-sight cameras — have been used in the past by the top-secret unit.
The war dogs wear ballistic body armour that is said to withstand damage from single and double-edged knives, as well as protective gear which shields them from shrapnel and gunfire.
German Shepherds have been leading the way in SAS raids in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Wearing oxygen masks, the pooches have been trained to jump from aircraft at 25,000ft, before seeking out insurgents in hostile environments.

We re-enact a scene from the Lost WonderCon Episode, and then answer 21 questions in 42 minutes--again! Unsheathed #78 - Lightning Round #2!