This has been going around...

[] you meow/bark to get attention
[] you find pets toys amusing
[ ] you get hyper by the smell of catnip
[] you growl/hiss when someone gets too close to your food
[] you growl/hiss when someone you dislike is too close to you
[] you purr/shake your leg when someone shows you affection
[ ] if someone tosses a ball, you chase it and bring it back
Total:

[] you love to be scratched behind the ear (does my back count?)
[] you love fish/meat
[] you like to stick your head out trough the window of a moving car.
[] you like when people pet your head
[] people can make you stop doing stuff by hitting you on the nose with a newspaper (who wouldn't this stop honestly?)
[ ] you think feathers are fun to play with
Total:

[] you sleep a lot during daytime
[ ] you enjoy scaring birds
[] you lick peoples faces to show you like them
[ ] you bite people if they annoy you
[] you tend to steal food from your friends/family's plate when you have eaten all of yours
[ ] milk or water is your favorite drink
Total:

[] you own a collar and you enjoy wearing it
[ ] you own a leash and enjoy wearing it
[] you own animal ears/tail/paws or a fursuit
[] you enjoy long walks in the park
[] you meow/bark when you see something you want
Total:

[] you call your hands and feet "paws"
[] you tilt your head when you do not understand what someone is talking about
[ ] you run to the door when someone mentions a walk
[] you really enjoy cuddling
[] you stretch your body and whimper a bit every morning when you wake up
[ ] you can wake up and go back to sleep right away after looking around
Total:

[] you have your favorite spot besides your bed where you like to sleep
[] you meow or bark very often
[ ] you hide when you get scared
[] you run to the door to see who it is every time someone comes in to the house
[ ] you like to chase flying insects and try to catch them with your bare hand
[] you tend to chew on stuff a lot
[] you like to do tricks to get a treat
Total:

[ ] you own a wearable item/tag with your name on it
[] you refer to your self as an animal
[] your username has something to do with animals
[] your e-mail has something to do with animals
[] if you get a bleeding wound, you lick it to make it feel better
[] you look for edible stuff often
Total:

[ ] you often find yourself looking through the window for a long time
[ ] you like to say hi to strangers
[] you like to be petted when you have done something good
[] people think you act like a pet
[] you growl/hiss at stuff you do not like
[ ] you like to eat grass
[]if you get wet, you shake to get rid of the water
Total:

Final total:

Take your score and multiply it by 2
Put your title as "I'm --% Furry"

So this is garbage. Like, not even worthy to be an internet quiz. "You look for edible stuff often?" Literally every human ever has looked for edible stuff often. That has nothing to do with being a furry. "You enjoy scaring birds?" This question might help determine if you're a sociopath who is cruel to animals, but again, has nothing whatsoever to do with being a furry.

"You like to eat grass."

Really.

Actually, this is another "check the box if you are a human" question because the majority of all calories that humans eat comes from three species of grass--rice, corn and wheat. So, yeah, I do like to eat grass, or part of it anyway... this makes me a furry?

What most of these questions are really asking is not "How much of a furry are you?" but "Do you try to act like an animal in real life?" The two are not the same. For an actual internet quiz of your furryness, I suggest something like the following:

[ ] The aesthetic of an animal with human characteristics or a human with animal characteristics appeals to me.
[ ] I enjoy stories with anthropomorphic characters, whether in movies, books, comics, or other media.
[ ] In stories with anthropomorphic characters, I tend to identify more easily with the anthropomorphic characters than with human characters in the same story.
[ ] I often daydream about anthropomorphic creatures or characters.
[ ] I sometimes wish anthropomorphic creatures existed in real life.
[ ] I wish I could be an anthropomorphic creature in real life.
[ ] I enjoy looking at furry art.
[ ] I have drawn, written or produced creative work that could be considered "furry."
[ ] I have an account on a furry website like Furaffinity, sofurry, weasyl, etc.
[ ] I have paid for furry art, whether a commission, print, magazine, book, etc.
[ ] I have attended a furry meetup or convention, or I would like to.
[ ] The furry community is important to me.
[ ] I own or have worn a partial or full fursuit, or I would like to.
[ ] I don't aspire to wear or own a fursuit, but I appreciate those who do!
[ ] I have a fursona, or furry identity I use online/in the fandom that is different from my legal name/identity.

If you want to add up a total and compare it to others you can, but checking any of the above boxes qualifies you as 100% furry if the following is also true:
[ ] I self-identify as a furry.

Pass THAT around and post if on your wall! Feel free to suggest questions I may have forgotten. :D

Some free advice for  furryraiders regarding their symbol: you can't escape from the embedded symbolism of certain things. For instance, if your symbol was horizontal red and white stripes with a blue box in the upper left corner and a white paw in the box, people would look at it and say, "Oh, so you're some kind of "American furs" group?"

You might insist that no, this is an original symbol that you created to be a general representation of furries that has nothing to do with America or being American, but that would only confuse people. "Then what's with the "stars and stripes" theme?" they would ask. That pattern is so universally tied to the idea of "The USA" that you simply can't use it without implying a patriotic USA theme.

So you have a black symbol in a white circle centered against a bright red background. Worn as an armband. Sadly, someone else already did that, and they ruined it forever.

Of course you're not Nazi's. But your symbol implies that you're some kind of... I don't know... WWII/Furry Third Reich Role Play group? (Which would be weird, btw.)

If that's not the case, then you should change your symbol, bro. :)

Why don't furries know this word? https://twitter.com/WhoresofYore/st.....70206621810688

Hey, furries. Guess what? I just sold a story! My short story, aptly titled The Roar will appear in ROAR Volume 7 out this summer from FurPlanet! (Probably July.) The theme for the stories in this volume is "legend," and what could be more legendary than the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex? You like talking dinosaurs? Of course you do! Pick up a copy this summer! :D

Nine is the smallest number of journal notifications that I can have. If I nuke the journals, the top right corner of the page still tells me I have nine.

0 = 9.

Not a big deal, it's just weird. Is it like this for everyone?

I guess we'll have to endure a steady stream of Zootopia porn for the foreseeable future (and by "endure" I mean "feverishly jack off to.")

I knew there was a fur meet happening last night on Pearl St., and I also knew I wouldn't make it, but I was on Pearl later, looking for a still-open coffee shop as I do, and I wondered if I would see some lingering furries by chance. As it happened, I was reading in Star Bucks (not ideal, but it was still open) when a group came in sporting some tails and a feline head. They were hanging out and I was over in my corner and I thought about going over to say hi and ask how the meet was, but I also knew I wouldn't because shyness. So I thought, maybe if I get on FA and angle my tablet like so, they'll notice and come say hi to me. I knew they wouldn't -- why would they? You can't expect other people to overcome your barriers for you. But still, a man can dream. So it was a surprise when this latest crazy shyness-work-around actually worked. A friendly, obviously lutrine fellow asked if I was a furry and then high-fived me and then I got to meet/hang out with  kodywulf and crew for a while. Yey for extroverts! And stupid shyness work-arounds, I guess.

I had a dream this morning where I was at a fur con, and I was at some panel on fur suit construction. My friends were there, in the back row (I was in the front) and I was somewhat concerned that they would figure out that I'm a furry (how they accompanied me to a fur con without knowing this was not explained.) There was a sort of hands-on component that had to do with attaching earrings to costume ears and it involved molding some clay onto the ear for some reason. Anyway, I did it wrong, and this girl that was running the panel took mine from me and showed me how to do it right. She had blond hair and blue eyes and she made deep, meaningful eye contact with me while she demonstrated the correct technique. I loved her.

I rarely make direct eye contact with people in real life (I actually try to avoid it) and maybe that has something to do with how, whenever eye contact happens to me in a dream, it feels very meaningful and emotional in a way that I still remember when I wake up. The climax to the best dream I've ever had was making eye contact with a wolf after wrestling with it violently. Eye contact is always positive and soulful in my dreams... I wonder why I shy away from it in real life.

Sometimes when I drink it seems like I can get the shyness drunk and sneak past it for a while and have fun before it inevitably catches up to me again. Other times it doesn't work and I just spend all night thinking about how I'm way too fucking shy to say the things I want to say or do the things I want to do. Can't talk, can't dance, etc. This was one of those nights, unfortunately. Foxtrot was cool, I just wish I could have been there as more than an observer. I wish I were not a prisoner within myself.

I'm too shy to live. I could be dancing *right now*. I wish I could interact.

I don't want to just hang out around furries, I want to hang out *with* them. I wish I could talk.

Heading out to Foxtrot 23 on this dark and stormy night!

Finally getting around to uploading pics from RMFC back in August.

Just hit 6666 submissions in my box haha.

I saw a pair of furries on Pearl St. in Boulder today, or at least one furry and her handler. I gathered that they were raising money for a new fursuit. It's always fun to see furries out in the world.

For Nakoo's raffle, I'm linking to my favorite Nakoo submission, which is this one: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7147081
It's a picture of a male dragon getting sucked off by a female Argonian. I'm usually more into furry than scaly things, but I was really impressed by the "realistic" anatomy of the characters here, and their emotive faces. The size difference and feral nature of the male are fun, too. :D

So I'm not an artist. I wish I were, but I'm not. But if I can't make art, at least I can pay somone else to do it! As long as I've been looking at furry art, I figure it's only right that I finally pay for some. I ordered my first commissions last week at RMFC from the likes of Heather Bruton, Wolf Nymph and Rukis, and the results, now posted here, are even better than I hoped. If you like furry art but haven't commissioned any yet, I highly recommend it.

So I noticed at the Rocky Mountain Fur Con today that many or even most of the artists present were women, while a large majority of the fans in attendence were guys. Why would that be?