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A group of teenagers dressed as Easter bunnies were turned away from a zoo – amid fears they would ‘psychologically damage’ the animals.
Cancer-sufferer Laura Gibson, 15, and her friends were told to change out of their costumes before entry into Edinburgh Zoo in case they upset the creatures.
The trip had been planned as a special treat for the teen, who was joined by friends Hannah, Kirsty and Becki Nicholson and her brother Cameron, who was dressed as a chicken.

Denied entry: From left to right, Laura Gibson and her friends Hannah Nicholson, Cameron Gibson, and Kirsty and Becki Nicholson

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The next project for Anthony Bell (director of last year’s Alpha and Omega) is an animated film called Norm of the North. It stars Rob Schneider (Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo) as the voice of Norm, a polar bear who (along with his lemming friends) ends up in New York City, “where Norm becomes the mascot of a corporation he soon learns is tied to the fate of his homeland”. The writers, Daniel and Steven Altiere, have previously written several furry-themed direct-to-video sequels, including Scooby Doo! The Mystery Begins and Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts. Now in post-production, Norm of the North is set for release by Lionsgate Films in 2012.

I'm coming out as a furry to my friends and I'm honestly having a hard time describing what the furry culture is, beyond fursuits and sex. I'd really appreciate some advice, maybe some stories of your own, or anything else that would help me explain the culture better. Thank you much.

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The term fantasy is flexible. A person can fantasize about an ice cream cone or about an alien landscape, something anywhere between arm’s reach and infinite light years away. It can refer to  something as benign as the elusive or as striking as the impossible. Sedric‘s “Chitchester Gap” attempts to bridge the two in a compact, pulpy package featuring doppelgangers getting it on in a library and defiling a piece of classic literature. Characteristically short, we felt the story worked best with a companion to add a little meat for our commuting readers. So Skip is also reading for us “Vignette of the Highway” by Lycanthromancer.

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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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The film “Furry” is by Lindsey Batdorf, who wrote, directed and edited the project. Furry is a 20-minute comedy that was produced at Ringling College of Art and Design, as her senior thesis project.

The film is about Ryan Wetherby, a 23-year-old illustrator who is obsessed with his childhood wolf character named Kitsu. He finally has an opportunity to get together with the girl of his dreams, a co-worker named Emily. He faces a dilemma, however: should he tell Emily about his furry obsession, or should he hide it from her? It doesn’t help that his “out-and-proud” furry friend, Terry, is always looking to convert new people to the fandom!

We asked Lindsey about her experience with the fandom:

As far as my experience with the fandom goes, I learned about the furry lifestyle from my past college roommate. She had a tigress character that was her “fursona” and she loved to draw Sonic the Hedgehog art. I investigated further, and I found that beneath the negative rep it gets from the media, the furry fandom is a nerdy yet fun-loving community of nice folks. This was only proven to me further when I went to Anthrocon 2010 and met a lot of incredibly friendly furries!

Trailer for my thesis film, Furry. Produced at Ringling College of Art and Design.

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"Dog unit AMALO and his pneumatic Power Fist (aka Power Glove) - furry paws turn in to powerful sledgehammers for dishing out some fistic medicine."

BEIJING (AP) -- A farmer in south China found twin black bear cubs alone in a forest while he was out picking tea leaves, state media said. He was planning to raise them until they were big enough to fend for themselves, but an animal welfare group has intervened.

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Our third episode is up and live for download! In this episode, we talk about laser badgers, video games, creepy people, roommates, breaking up, and a variety of other things! This one comes in at exactly one hour long, too!

This time, we even have an e-mail left over from this week, so getting to three e-mails will be even easier, making us far more likely to record for our THIRD week in a row, woo! Don’t forget to keep sending ‘em in; as we’re slowly proving, we’ll cover most any topic you want discussed! Keep spreading the word, too!

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The shooting of more than 23,000 rabbits in New Zealand during a charity hunting event held over the Easter vacation weekend has drawn fire from animal welfare campaigners.

While organizers of the annual Great Easter Bunny Hunt, held across the southern region of New Zealand’s South Island, argued the event was ridding farmland of an introduced, rampant pest species, welfare group Safe saw things differently, the Sunday Star-Times reported.

Safe director Hans Kriek said the event promoted the killing of animals in a “party atmosphere.”

“It’s seen as a party atmosphere, sending people out as inexperienced hunters blasting away at animals,” he said. “The ones they kill are one thing, the ones they injure are another.”

Hunt spokesman Dave Ramsay said the rabbit problem was at its worst in the region for 20 years, and the annual event raised thousands for local charities.

In total 47 teams — with 12 shooters each — from all over New Zealand took part, Ramsay told The Otago Daily Times.

Although the event only carries total prize money of NZ$ 3,500 (US$ 2,800), the most sought-after prize was the trophy for the team which shoots the greatest number of rabbits, he said.

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PALMETTO, Fla. (AP) — A Tampa-area woman found an unwelcome weekend guest in her bathroom – a 7-foot alligator.

Alexis Dunbar says she screamed and the alligator hissed when she found it inside the bathroom of her home Saturday afternoon. Her boyfriend propped a small table by the bathroom to keep the gator inside until an officer from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission showed up to take him away.

Dunbar believes the alligator used a doggie door on the back porch to get inside the house. Dunbar lives in Palmetto, which is south of St. Petersburg.

Spring is mating season for alligators and wildlife officials urge people to be extremely cautious, especially around water.

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Another 3 hour show... Wait, didn't we do this last week? Well, it's another 3 hour run, with Xavier ranting about the PSN outage. Done and Dusted things included Mortal Kombat Legacy and game, Touhou 13 Demo, and the shock news that Yogi Bear isn't as bad as we all thought.

The shooting of more than 23,000 rabbits in New Zealand during a charity hunting event held over the Easter vacation weekend has drawn fire from animal welfare campaigners.

While organizers of the annual Great Easter Bunny Hunt, held across the southern region of New Zealand's South Island, argued the event was ridding farmland of an introduced, rampant pest species, welfare group Safe saw things differently, the Sunday Star-Times reported.

Safe director Hans Kriek said the event promoted the killing of animals in a "party atmosphere."

"It's seen as a party atmosphere, sending people out as inexperienced hunters blasting away at animals," he said. "The ones they kill are one thing, the ones they injure are another."

Hunt spokesman Dave Ramsay said the rabbit problem was at its worst in the region for 20 years, and the annual event raised thousands for local charities.

In total 47 teams -- with 12 shooters each -- from all over New Zealand took part, Ramsay told The Otago Daily Times.

Although the event only carries total prize money of NZ$3,500 (US$2,800), the most sought-after prize was the trophy for the team which shoots the greatest number of rabbits, he said.

PALMETTO, Fla. (AP) -- A Tampa-area woman found an unwelcome weekend guest in her bathroom – a 7-foot alligator.

Alexis Dunbar says she screamed and the alligator hissed when she found it inside the bathroom of her home Saturday afternoon. Her boyfriend propped a small table by the bathroom to keep the gator inside until an officer from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission showed up to take him away.

Dunbar believes the alligator used a doggie door on the back porch to get inside the house. Dunbar lives in Palmetto, which is south of St. Petersburg.

Spring is mating season for alligators and wildlife officials urge people to be extremely cautious, especially around water.

One of the things that's a "thing" today is that people, driven by a Fox Nation story, are complaining about the Obama White House's failure to issue a proclamation about Easter. The White House, of course, hosted an Easter Egg Roll, and the president also hosted an Easter-themed prayer breakfast, at which he said this:

"I wanted to host this breakfast for a simple reason -- because as busy as we are, as many tasks as pile up, during this season, we are reminded that there's something about the resurrection -- something about the resurrection of our savior, Jesus Christ, that puts everything else in perspective.

"We all live in the hustle and bustle of our work... But then comes Holy Week. The triumph of Palm Sunday. The humility of Jesus washing the disciples' feet. His slow march up that hill, and the pain and the scorn and the shame of the cross. And we're reminded that in that moment, he took on the sins of the world -- past, present and future -- and he extended to us that unfathomable gift of grace and salvation through his death and resurrection.

"In the words of the book Isaiah: "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."

"This magnificent grace, this expansive grace, this 'Amazing Grace' calls me to reflect. And it calls me to pray. It calls me to ask God for forgiveness for the times that I've not shown grace to others, those times that I've fallen short. It calls me to praise God for the gift of our son -- his Son and our Savior."

“It is our hope that DeGrippo [the former operator of Encyclopedia Dramatica] will opt to take action to keep these sites offline.”

That passage from a prior article here on FNN, referring to mirror sites of Encyclopedia Dramatica, compelled me to write this editorial.  Note that I am labeling this as an editorial and not a news article — I don’t think that the passage above had any business being in an article trying to pass itself off as objective news.

Encyclopedia Dramatica (or just ED, as many called it) may have been rude, obscene and obnoxious.  But it was also a free and open repository of things that others couldn’t or wouldn’t talk about.  It was in many ways more truthful than any other site out there, in terms of documenting actual culture on the Internet.

Those of you here who know me probably know me first as someone who is passionate about documenting culture, particularly Internet-based culture.  You may have watched my documentary on the Furry Fandom, “Furries – An Inside Look“.  Because of this passion, I feel that ED was more good than bad.  On the Internet, people act silly, or angrily; openly, or offensively; honestly, or inflammatorily; because they feel they have little or no accountability for it.  This can be a good or a bad thing.  But regardless of how behavior on the Internet took form, ED was a repository of it.  It didn’t pick a side, it didn’t attack or support any one point of view (it tended to just attack everything, really).  It preserved Internet culture in all of its creativity, hilarity, and yes, its horror, along with the many memorable and culturally-significant memes that have arisen from this culture, with little limitation or censorship.  And while I don’t condone inflammatory behavior, I do condone repositories of culture, and open forums of communication.

Before you demonize ED, remember that it is the anonymity of the Internet that allows many Furries to express their feelings.  It is the degree of separation between “RL” and “OL” that allows so many to come in to their own as characters that help them evolve their actual selves.  So many furs can trace the development of their very self-image and modes of expression, and the friends they met along the way, to the Internet, and its ability to allow one to communicate freely and anonymously and across all borders.  Furries benefit from the same things that ED did.  And finding themselves judged so often (even by ED itself), I believe that Furries should, in good faith, reserve judgment against other communities, ED being just one of them.  Even if it means having to be ‘the better person’.

I also believe that ED taught people, many Furries included, important lessons that they may not want to admit were things they should have known ahead of time.  Upset that ED posted an article about a video you uploaded to the Internet of you having sex in a fursuit?  Foaming at the mouth because of how they are defaming the Fandom in such a manner?  Well, consider that maybe you shouldn’t have uploaded a video to the Internet of you having sex in a fursuit in the first place.  ED taught people, in the harshest of ways, that if you make something available to the public, it may come back to bite you.  And that is a universal lesson.  Take it in to account before the next time you go job hunting — employers will Google around for you.  They will find your Facebook, and your Twitter, and probably your YouTube — maybe even your XTube, for those who choose to post such things.  Before pointing fingers in anger at ED (even though ED does deserve some of it), also look back at yourself.  It is your responsibility to manage your public image.

ED was an archive of the culture, including the underbelly, of the Internet.  If you didn’t want to have an embarassing article there, you probably shouldn’t have handed them the material.  Keep your private life private.  Or at least don’t expect it to never come back and harm you if you make it public.

Overall, Encyclopedia Dramatica was a no-holds-barred free and open forum that didn’t answer to anyone.  It was an equal-opportunity hater.  And while much of that may not be nice, it wasn’t fake.  It wasn’t a smoothed-over PR effort.  It was a cultural repository of all things, good and bad, that the Internet had to offer.  And I feel that we should mourn its loss.

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Growing up in the 70?s, there were lots of interesting things on television. One program I remember above all others was the Banana Splits show. This was designed by Sid & Marty Kroft and was produced and distributed by Hannah Barbera.

This is the reason I fell in love with the with Fursuits. I wanted to have as much fun as these guys did!

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Here's an Indians fan trying to go all backdoor slider on Slider. The YouTube description says: "He's not wearing any pants. It just seemed right."...

04/25/2011
By: CraftyAndy

A review of the recent documentary African Cats.

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