Immelmann has announced the imminent end of Ursa Major Award-winning comic Concession:

I will be curt: I’m tired of Concession.

I’m tired of the mess I’ve made of its plot. It’s very convoluted and, in the long-run, almost entirely nonsensical. I’m tired of the archives being as they are – not the art, I can get over that, but the plots involving pedophilia, rape… I now see them as tasteless and ultimately unwise. I’m tired of the complicated “plan” Joel has constructed. I’m tired of pretending that I’ve had all this as planned as it may look.

The author is planning a new comic featuring an all-furry, mostly-female cast. Concession characters may visit his unscripted comic Ballerina Mafia, as they did in At the Heart of it All.

The Funday Pawpet Show now offers a near-complete episode archive – but perhaps not for much longer.

Over the past few months, several hundred old episodes have been detailed and put online for download, but the risk of five-figure licensing fees has led show lead Yappy Slyfox to threaten to pull the plug.

Originally, only each week's previous broadcast was available for download, although several "old tapes" that might just happen to contain early episodes were auctioned off several years ago.

The FPS annual telethon (which raised over $10,000 in 2007) is on November 14; its 11^th anniversary will be celebrated a fortnight later. The show runs 6-10PM Eastern each Sunday.

Security flaws in a feature introduced to Fur Affinity this week have led to the indiscriminate hiding of comments throughout the site, after an attacker exploited flaws in the comment system.

The attacker said their intention was to raise awareness of the issues, after being initially rebuffed by site coders. However, their actions hurt innocent users, including artists who found their commission references hidden.

Creating a feline character? You might want to decide on their habitat before picking a coat.

Research by the University of Bristol's School of Experimental Psychology has found correlations between the complexity or irregularity of a cat's pattern and its habitat:

[...] cats living in dense habitats, in the trees, and active at low light levels, are the most likely to be patterned.

The researchers admitted that this rule did not explain the coat of cheetahs, who have evolved spots despite a preference for open plains.

The team discounted suggestions that coat patterns in big cats were linked to social hierarchy or gender, as they did not differ significantly between such individuals. Their paper, Why the leopard got its spots, was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

BBC 4's Inside the Medieval Mind recently touched on a question that puzzled medieval missionaries: were the dog-headed people thought to inhabit distant lands worth saving? [mekoryuk/furry reddit]

These beings appeared to be human in most respects, except that they had the heads of dogs. The question was, did they have the souls of humans?