Hay I have yet to even meet another furry. And as for close groups, the nearest one in a three hour drive away, six if you count up then back.
As for what is furry? Well everyone has there own take on that.

i live near some other furries who are about 40 minutes away. But the problem is getting together. And then i live about a hour away from Tallahassee, Fla and they have even more.. and i am sure they have meetings but i have yet to find them..

Sad nyoof....

*Hugs* trust me I know how you feel.

just bc u dont have furry friends that doesnt mean why am i a furry those dont even go together lol...that be me like saying i have no one in my fam a furry so why am i...at least u got internet do u go to conventions? too bad u dont got furry friends to live around tho...maybe u might get lucky when u go to convention u might c one

well *sighs again* finances are the problem. But i was just wondering more to the point of Furry like when you wonder why we are here. Not really a question with a answer. but kind of more like a feeling.

dose that make sense??

nyoof

to have a sense that people u can relate to

I guess so.

I like furry art, never been a "furry" in the sense that goes with the fandom.
:/
I guess I just like the idea to express some ideas through neutral characters. Like noone will be offended when Pepe le Pew acts superstereotipical Frenchman, but everyone would dislike the idea if that was a real life human or human cartoon. Also a small layer of fur makes everything much more appaling - you can see no skin deformities, scars, freckles, even a fat animal is cute. Humans lack this "socio-protective" layer. Clothes rarely help. So some furries are here because they can remove their human flaws by beinga part of the group that accepts such removal (holy fuck, sorry I am drunk a bit and I tend to overexplain stuff)

Animals are just something we like to associate with. I like wolverines because they have many traits I would like to see in myself, but that doesn't mean I want to be one.
Otherwise, as a social thing furries are just same nerds as comic people - one dresses as batman, others as lions. Difference - close to none :)

Furverts are different story. Sociopathy, escapism and for few traits of zoophilia can be observed.

that was really deep. And that is also what i wanted to hear. different types of replies.

I also kind of ask myself, why not astronauts? but the furry thing to me makes us more then we are in life. that is one way i see it like you said.

oh my god, astronaut fandom would be so very awesome :D

yes it would. but then we could not wear fursuits in space. might kill us.

*head pops*