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Hi furs! I'm stuck in bed for a few days from a minor surgery and I want to take a break from portfolio work. So I'm taking a few fursona portrait requests :) As far as my art goes, you can see examples at my FA or Tumblr!

I'll be taking the first 5 that have a visual reference. I'll edit this post upon completion and put the completed ones on my FA. If they're done quick I'll take more requests so feel free to comment even after the first 5.

EDIT: Full for now! Check back a little later for finished portraits. Thanks for expressing interest! EDIT 2: /u/LJE_Shot1, /u/scratch741, and /u/kojolion, yours are finished! Here they are. can you see my horrible lion bias

Reason being there's a specific artist I'd like to commission from, but they take commissions very sporadically (and when they do they fill up quickly) and through journals. Is there some program or add-on that can alert me via email or something else when a user posts a new journal entry on the above websites?

So! I'm thinking of heading to my first fur-con this year - and a buddy of mine is graciously offering me a place at his apartment to sleep in so I can go! But now I'm wondering - is anyone else on r/furry heading to Fur The 'More this year? I'd love to know if you are or if you've been before what it was like and if you have any advice or want to share experiences!

Thanks a ton!

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.

Housepets! Will Do It For Free (Book 6), by Rick Griffin.
North Charleston, SC, CreateSpace, November 2015, trade paperback $13.95 (52 pages).

Another year passes, and here is the new annual collection of the Housepets! online comic strip by Rick Griffin. Housepets! has appeared each Monday-Wednesday-Friday since June 2, 2008. It has won the Ursa Major Award for the Best Anthropomorphic Comic Strip for every year since! – for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. Umpty million thousand furry fans can’t be wrong.

Book 6 contains the strips from June 19, 2013 to May 30, 2014; story arcs #70, “Mice To Meet You” to #77, “Heaven’s Not Enough, part 1”, plus the one-off gag strips before and between these.

Housepets! is the story of the dogs, cats, ferrets, rabbits, and other pets of Babylon Gardens, a typical residential suburban neighborhood – in an alternate universe. The animals are larger than in our universe (but not human-sized), can talk, are usually bipedal, and address their human owners as “Mom” and “Dad”. Their status is somewhere between pets and children. Points established over the years are that humans can bequeath their belongings to their pets, who do not need a human guardian; human storekeepers are not allowed to sell catnip to cats; human police forces have an auxiliary of Police Dogs who are not all police dogs; the pets comment sardonically on how they can go naked in public but their human “parents” can’t; and – lots of other stuff.

When Housepets! began, the main characters were the dog Peanut Butter and the Cat Grape Jelly, both belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sandwich of Babylon Gardens. By now the strip has built up such a large cast of pets – Tarot, Tiger, King, Bailey, and many more dogs (dogs), Maxwell, Sabrina, and all the Mr. Bigglesworths (cats), Keene, Duke, Rock, and the other Milton ferrets (ferrets), Zach (rabbit), and nonpet woodland critters – Karishad (fox), Jessica (opossum), Miles, Lucretia, Daryl, the other Daryl, and the rest of the pack (wolves), Falstaff, Truck, and Custom Ink (raccoons), Spo and Squeak (mice) – well, Peanut and Grape have pretty much faded into the background.

In Book 6, Squeak demonstrates why she likes bigger cats and dogs. The Gallifrax Dimension turns the bipedal Peanut, Grape, Tarot, and Max into four-legged cats & dogs. Peanut continues to write/draw his “Spot (Superdog)” comic book. Rick Griffin wants to draw anthro kangaroos at the Babylon Gardens Zoo. Prince Jata (leopard) arrives from the African micronation of Feraga to marry Sabrina, and Fido the police dog declares his love for her. (A dog in love with a cat — §gasp§). Jata and Fido duel for her hand. Jessica the opossum risks freezing in winter snowdrifts to save the life of Tiny Tum (raccoon child) at Openermastime. The wolves’ lupine sense of humor is not appreciated by humans. Peanut, Grape & friends imaginate Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. The demigods present Valentine’s Day. Itsuki the tanuki exchange student from Japan only appears in one strip this year. The wolves tell stories. “Tiger’s [dog] Very Own Super Special Television Show!” (He’s upstaged by Chauncey, the Robot Penguin.) Book 6 concludes with “Heaven’s Not Enough, part 1”, in which Pete the demigod griffin appears to both King and his wife Bailey (dogs), turns King from a Corgi back into a human (Pete claims that his original transformation spell just expired), Bailey agrees to become Pete’s avatar in Heavenly battle to save King, and Cerberus the giant three-headed dog (another demigod) sends everyone to Heaven to see how things work out. Part 1 is complete, but ends on a cliffhanger. This is the first Housepets! collection that ends on a cliffhanger rather than a story arc’s conclusion.

Book 6 presents four rows of strips to a page in full color, with some brand-new illustrations to make story sequences come out evenly. Like all long-running comic strips, this assumes that the reader is familiar with the characters and their backstories. Fans of Housepets! should certainly get Book 6; reading it is much easier than reading the cartoon strip-by-strip on its website’s archive. For those who are not already fans, it’s recommended that you start with one of the earlier volumes to get familiar with the cast: Book 1, Housepets! Are Naked All The Time; Book 2, Housepets! Hope They Don’t Get Eaten; Book 3, Housepets! Can Be Real Ladykillers; Book 4, Housepets! Are Gonna Sniff Everybody; and Book 5, Housepets! Don’t Criticize Your Lovelife. They’re all great, and they’re all still available on Amazon.com.

– by Fred Patten

• Buy on Createspace 
• Check out the webcomic here.
• Review of Housepets Book 1 on Flayrah
• Review of Housepets Book 2 on Flayrah
• Review of Housepets Book 3 on Flayrah
• Review of Housepets Book 4 on Flayrah
• Review of Housepets Book 5

Hope you Avians among us are having a great day :P

January’s Book of the Month, Civilized Beasts, is a furry/animal-themed poetry anthology with proceeds benefiting Wildlife Conservation Society. The book features work from a wide variety of poets and artists, including:

Larry D. Thomas
B. H. Tang
Kevin Gillam
Chris Wise
BanWynn Oakshadow
Arian Mabe
Marge Simon
Jason Huitt (Lunostophiles)
Eduard Dragomir Szabo
Sandi Stromberg
Renee Carter Hall
Edwin ‘Utunu’ Herrell
George Squares
Ceò
Amy Fontaine
Alice “Huskyteer” Dryden
Winston Derden
Carolyn A. Dahl
Kenket
Dwale
Joyce Parkes
Stefano “Mando” Zocchi
Dominique Goodall
Televassi
David Andrew Cowan
Altivo Overo
Kits Koriohn
Denise Clemons
Jack Warren
Lynn White
Bruce Boston
Laura “Munchkin” Govednik
Weasel

Published by Weasel Press and available from major retailers in print and ebook formats.

According to the google search trends, the term "furry" has never had so many searches before: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=furry

Same thing for fursuit: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=fursuit

Could anybody know why is it so? Maybe because Zootopia, but at the same time the second trailer came out in november. Is the fandom growing or did something happen furry related, like a year ago when the chlorine gas attack happened? It striked up to 85 when that happened.

(Also holy fuck I can't believe its been a year from that, I honestly remember this like it was a few months ago, (maybe it felt so recent because I don't visit furry communities very often?) and I didn't even pay too much attention to it, funnily enough, it was on the Estonian news, good thing they referred to furries as "Fans of cartoon animals".)