For the residents of the doghouse, there has been one slur tossed at each of us over and over again, that being the label of 'eliteist'

I'll explain.

When the house was first formed, Torwin, one of the founders, made it very clear to every fur that they were welcome to come by anytime, for whatever reason.

Having been present (I lived here a couple days a week while homeless at this time), I was privy to watch the never ending parade of different people and parties. More than once, late on a weekday, a large sect of furs would randomly show up and start the party.

For a while, this was good.

We all got to meet a lot different people and have a lot of fun.

But.

This obviously grew trying for the residents of the doghouse.

Myself, a now full rent paying member of this cadre, have started to see things from the other side.

People were sick of the house always being a mess and always having random people over unannounced.

Instead of having open invite parties, we started having just a couple of our close friends over. The people who had previously been welcome to show up anytime felt that they had been slighted. They felt that we were excluding them, individually.

Well, I have to say that when 7 people already live in a place, you don't need terribly many people over to make a party. All of us feel much more comfortable as hosts when we know well the people making themselves at home. It is much less for us to worry about.

It doesn't mean we dislike you, it doesn't mean we don't like your company. It means that we're people.

That said, the party this Saturday is most certainly open invite and I want to see you all there :)