Just wanted to post a reminder and to make sure everybody is ready. Tarpaw Furmeet is coming up next weekend in Raleigh. This is the second event, the first last fall was a roaring success. If it continues to be successful this will be the launching pad for having a full-blown furry con in North Carolina.

Next weekend will be another "mini-con type party" and revenue and attendance records will be used to get a con started. If you've ever wanted to see a con in NC please please show this event some support so we can make a con in NC a reality.

May 19-21st, 2017

Tickets and more information can be found at http://www.tarpawfurmeet.com

I'm so excited and ready for a fun weekend of partying, gaming, dancing, drinking, pizza, and much more with friends. I hope to see you all there!

Do you want a furry convention in North Carolina?

http://tarpawfurmeet.com/

Tarpaw Furmeet is an event happening November 5 that if successful will be used to start a convention here in North Carolina. Tickets are only $20, which includes pizza and soda. Buy your ticket today!!

Event Info:

Date: Saturday, November 5, 2016
Time: 6pm-11:30pm
Location: Raleigh Elks' Lodge (5338 Lead Mine Road, Raleigh, NC 27612, at the corner of Lead Mine Road and W. Millbrook Road)
Age: 18 and over. 21 to drink.

Admission: $20 in advance, $25 at the door

DJ from 7pm-11:30pm
Bartender on duty from 7pm-11pm

Food and non-alcoholic beverages allowed.
Outside alcoholic beverages: prohibited

Pizza and drinks will be provided, but potlucking is welcome too. Bring a favorite dessert to share!

Fursuit headless area (water and fans) provided for changing, but please be considerate and make sure others can use the area too.


We hope to see you there!
http://tarpawfurmeet.com/

http://tarpawfurmeet.com/

  Honeypup here with a message from   fatbadjah :

"For years, I've been hearing people ask for a con in the area. Tarpaw Furmeet is the plan to make that event happen.
To build a con, you have to have an existing base of people to go to it and help it grow--a base of attendees. Further Confusion, Midwest Furfest, and (then Albany) Anthrocon all started this way. Further Confusion sprung from the Bay Area furs who saw an opportunity for an event when Confurence left its established time and place in 1999. Midwest Furfest's base grew out of Duckcon's furry track in the late 90s. Albany Anthrocon grew out of a series of hotel parties put on by Roger Wilbur in the 90s. Every con grows from an existing seed base.
The fragmented nature of the North Carolina groups has made amassing this critical mass this difficult to do. Since I moved to Raleigh in 2009, I've seen no less than three attempts at starting cons in the region--none of which came to fruition. Thus, I'm taking a "back to basics" approach, looking at what made strong events succeed.
TL;DR: Let's have a furry party. :)
I've booked the hall, I've booked a DJ, I've talked to pizza places. I'm putting the event structure in place. It's time to see if enough people will attend. I've set the bar for 125. If we get that, I'll put on another party in the spring. If that party meets its goal, I'll put on a third. If the third one succeeds (in other words, we've built a base of consistent attendees up to think bigger), it'll be time to build the board of directors, put together the paperwork, and sign a hotel contract for a multi-day con.
...but it all begins with this first event.
So join us in Raleigh in four weeks for a night of furries and fun that we hope will grow into a regional con by 2018! Hope to see everyone there!"



Please buy your tickets today, mark your calendars and schedule time off, so we can make this happen! So many of us want a convention here and talk about it, but it won't happen without putting the effort in. We can make a Carolina fur con a reality within the next couple years! The TarPaw parties are a start.

http://tarpawfurmeet.com/

 redneckfur here. I've got this account working again! Soon other mods from our group will be using this page as well to bring you more good things and great news and cool photos as well.

If you haven't, be sure to join our site on meetup.com and check us out on both Facebook and Twitter!

Tonight is our Dinner meet we are going to brix pizza and we hope to see you all there... well not all of you because well they do have firecodes! but anyways check out the meet up site for details!

We are planning to get some Triangle Area Furs (TAF) T-shirts!!! But we need your help. Design a logo or other creative design to be put on a shirt. Email all submissions to trianglefurs[at]gmail.com we will vote on a design shortly after FWA so get them in ASAP!!!

It has been cancelled due to weather. Please stay tuned for alter date!

Due to holiday festivities, Pullen Park is closed.
The monthly picnic meet has been moved to UMSTEAD.

William B Umstead State Park
8801 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh, NC

This is a different entrance than the one we used for the Thanksgiving meet. This will be the Crabtree side of Umstead.

http://www.meetup.com/furries-319/e.....nts/224834487/

Our annual Thanksgiving feast is quickly approaching!



It's this Saturday, at Umstead Park! Please RSVP if you can!

http://www.meetup.com/furries-319/e.....nts/225102627/

If you'd like to attend, here's the menu!

MENU HERE

It's a Google Doc, and anyone should be able to edit it. It saves changes as you go, so you don't need to hit (save) or anything! Just add what you'd like to bring, and that's it.
The directions to the park are also in the menu, towards the bottom, along with ride share information.

We hope to see you there!

:3

With all the rain and inclement weather coming this weekend, we have rescheduled to the 17th. If people still want to hang out at the park on this Saturday, you can still do so, but it will be super wet and gross.

Due to a seafood event at Pullen park this Saturday's meetup has moved location to Umstead state park shelter #1. Please check the meetup site for more information. Hope everyone can still make it out! See y'all there!

We are moving this month to Umstead State Park. Our regular location won't be available. We will be at shelter 1 (same place as the Thanksgiving meets) through the Reedy Creek entrance off North Harrison Avenue Exit 287 off I-40.

We are hosting a little get togeather for anyone not going to AC this year. Details below!

http://www.meetup.com/furries-319/e.....nts/223793687/

 redneckfur checking in!

I know, I know, I haven't been on this page in a while. Gonna try and fix that!

How is everyone? Had enough rain?

*new members* Be sure to join our meetup.com group and our facebook group!



Now that things are starting to settle down for me, job wise... How do yall feel about taking a trip to the zoo in Asheboro, NC?

I havent forgot about this page!  redneckfur here, checking in.

I see we've had some new watchers! Glad to have you all! I hope you've all signed up on our meetup.com page: http://www.meetup.com/furries-319/

And if you're on facebook, you can also keep up with us there! :http://www.facebook.com/groups/178063592282268/

While I'm going to make more effort to keep this page active, its mostly used as a way to help various furries in central North Carolina identify each other here FA.

Recently, we had a meet at Atomic Empire, in Durham North Carolina! It was a great, furry friendly venue. Atomic Empire is a gaming and comic store, and caters to a wide variety of tastes. One of the employee's there is a furry, and the whole staff is furry friendly. We will be returning to this location more and more often!

If you have any suggestions for future meets, please suggest them! We're always up for new ideas!.

Meetups are announced on our meetup.com page. The FA page sees less moderation.

If you want to keep up with local meets in central NC, and actually meet locals furs, PLEASE JOIN THE MEETUP SITE if you haven't done so already.

The link:http://www.meetup.com/furries-319/

Every first Saturday of the month we will be having a cook out at Pullen Park in Raleigh NC [location subject to change] The first one of this year is this Saturday March 3, and will continue each month.

Come out and have a great time with fellow fuzzbutts, fursuit, chat, play games, have FUN!

Meetup starts at 2:00 pm, and usually lasts until it gets dark and/or the park closes!

See you there fuzzies!

Next month's meet will be a trip to the Museum of Natural History.

((crossposted from the meetup site))


Let's get some learnin' on! With the chills of February, let's stay indoors while sill looking at cool animals and awesome natural science at the Museum of Natural History in downtown Raleigh.

We'll start the meetup at the food court of Cary Town Center, around 1pm. (Why Cary? It's more open and easier to park at than Crabtree.) Grab a light lunch if you like (trust us on the "light" part, you'll see why in a bit!), and between 1:45 and 2pm we'll carpool to the museum. We'll stay there til about 5pm, which is when they kick everyone out... but the meetup won't be over yet!

Back in Cary, let's all gather at the nearby Crazy Fire Mongolian Grill for an early dinner after! It's all-you-can-eat, cooked-before-your-eyes deliciousness. Once we've had our fill, we'll return to the mall so folks can get their vehicles again and we'll part ways.



Museum of Natural History
11 West Jones St. Raleigh, NC




Crazy Fire Mongolian Grill
1270 Buck Jones Road, Cary NC

Note, generally ears and tails are welcome at the museum, but please, no fursuiting at this venue. Also, there is no admission charge to go to the museum.

http://www.meetup.com/furries-319/

That is the link to our meetup page. If you're a triangle furry, and want to be up to date on everything going on, you need to join this site, and check your email (or the site) on a regular basis :D

To all you folks who dont check our meetup site for facebook page, tommorow is the Triangle Furs Thanksgiving Feast!

Its located in Pullen Park, in Raleigh, NC. Meal is to start around 1pm. All that we ask is that you bring a small donation, or a covered dish. If you cannot do that, just bring picnic supplies, such as some cups, plates, napkins, sodas, or some chips. Anything is A-OK.

Hope to see yall there! Last year's was a blast, with 55 furs in attendence. I want to break that record this year! Can we get 65? I think so!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104426029671795&context=create#!/groups/178063592282268/

Here you can keep up with Triangle Furs on Facebook!

we had about 45 furs come to todays cookout, with at least 10 fursuiters!

Great turnout, good food, and no drama! All things that make the triangle furs great!

I, am really pleased to see more and more furs from the Greensboro Furs, Carolina Furs, and Charlotte Furs groups come to our meets.

In the end, we're just one really big, happy, fuzzy, furry family.

In the future, I'm going to work harder to keep this page updated!

Yall all get your fuzzy butts to Raleigh tomorow, because there's going to be an epic cookout at Pullen Park.

Bring a cash donation, a side dish, or picnic items. Party starts at 2:00pm. There will be many fursuiters as well!

Many of you know CCI... They're the charity at FWA each year.

Well, it just happens so that CCI is local! And several times a year, we visit.

Next visit is May 21st, at 1pm. We'll be meeting up at the Streets of Southpoint Mall, in Durham, NC. You'll find us in the food court. Once everyone is there, we'll be heading out to Mebane (approx. 45 miniute drive) to see the wild animals at CCI.

Notes... just follow all the rules that CCI's volunteers give you. Its for your safety, and the safety of the animals.

Considering an exotic pet? Before you do that, let the folks at CCI tell you why thats a BAD idea. Most of their animals are rescued exotic pets.

So come on out, and have some fun with us!

My famous (infamous?) camping trip to Umpstead is tomorow. I hope this one is as fun as previous years camping trips!

At CCI, a local charity that rescues exotic pets from ill-equiped owners.

Come out for a cook out, a tour of the facility, and to have a great time.

Admission will be charged by CCI, so bring your wallet or you'll be sad waiting in the parking lot all by yourself.


Most folks will be meeting in the foodcourt of Southpoint Mall in Durham at 2:00PM to carpool. If you wish to carpool, do not be late!

See the meetup page for additional details.