i'm not a furry or gay in public unless i'm with the local furs... and even then i'm the most non-furry/gay there. idk why but the thought of being furry in public scares me to death. >.<

I has the closet furry.

then again, i'm not very revealing about myself at all. nobody knows that much about me, hell, even my closest friends know little about me other than random trivial things. the only people who know i'm gay are the people who have specifically asked (outside FA, i mean. i don't care about online. yay anonymity). goes the same for furry. you'd never know it, and i'm not going to announce it.

I try to be open, but I'm wicked shy, so most people can't tell much of anything about me 'till they talk to me for a while. I do wear my collar and my coon ear hat in public though, but that's about the extent of my public display of the fandom.

Would you wear your ears to work though if you wanted to? Or have your co-workers call you Dex? (assuming that's not your real name anyway)

I'd wear the ears to work if I didn't have to abide by a dress code. Although I honestly don't talk to my co-workers too much, but some of my non-furry friends call me Dex, all of my furry friends call me Dex

If he is willing to risk the negative image associated with furry as given by the media in regards to his real life and work, I guess that's his business. Personally, I'd think that there was something wrong with him. If it were my business, and he were my employee, I would probably fire him. If I were a customer, i wouldn't do business with him. This is because I'm a furry myself and I know what the term "yiff" means. Sexuality does not have it's place in the workplace and is very unprofessional(unless of course the business is sex centric, even then there are rules to it ;p). I'm willing to bet that's not the only things he does that are odd. :P I keep it WELL away from my workplace, there's a lot of ignorant types there, and if they thought I like to play as a blue fox/feline hybrid online and at conventions, i'd likely never live it down.

As for personal life. My mother knows I'm a furry. Last time I was home for christmas that tyra banks episode came on with the couple who like to fuck in fursuits. She calls out "Oh, hey! Look it's some furries on tv" I just facepalmed and informed my mother that in the 'furry community' they got a lot of flak for that. Naturally, the sexual aspect of the furry fandom stays out of conversations.. it's about as appropriate to talk about that as anything else sexual with your parents.

It differs for some, but to me, telling someone you're into furry isn;t quite the same as admitting some other hobbies you have.

Eh, most people IRL call me Bacent (even when I worked at wal-mart. Aka pos job). I use it in every game I play, so people just think its a gamer's Alias. And with the conbadges I usually wear, my parents think its more anime than furry (They know I'm a furry)

I don't have a fursona or feel a special affinity toward a certain animal. I like antros and that's pretty much the extent. I present myself here as I am, human. As such I don't really have any furry aspects to bring into work or any part of my real life.

AUGH! HOO-MAN!

It's pretty much known by everyone here I'm a furry and my sona is a raccoon but that's about it other than occasional jokes.

Dog-gone! That's not right that they think they can just bark orders at you! You can bet they'd have a bone to pick with me if I saw that happening! We can only hope they are at the tail-end of teasing you! 83

I could never. My furry stuff is locked down tight. If you google my real name, nothing related to the fandom or my screen names (catindminor, or acara) pop up.

No one needs to know that shit. :3

im the closet fur but some days at work I do growl

I go with my previous two speakers, and especially Neopagan, it kinda starts with what you said yourself too
if theres so much passion about it, at least dont rush in the door, because there are people out there who are waiting for that, and many do it silently, and they have little to loose as well
but as always, with the right friends you can always have the great parties, why not at work then,
general timidness and other projects I have (which are untimid enough) take my time, so I dont mind how fantasy/romance (Im not per se a furry, just attracted to the mindset) COULD affect my public life, so It just boils down to playing the deck right again, I guess.