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Abbott & Costello. Martin & Lewis. Now, add to the list of great comedy teams “Darwin and Squirrel.” That’s Darwin as in Charles Darwin, the nineteenth century father of evolutionary theory, and Squirrel as in an American grey squirrel. Squirrel, or The Original of a Species is an original new work from the imaginative pen of Michael Merino based solely on the amusing dialogue between the two of them.

Anthropaws, a local costume-building and repair services company, brought some cheer and smiles to Bothell's Fourth of July Grand Parade with a crew of furry critters. The company offers full custom-design character suits starting at $800, and has a community involvement division that delights in brightening up local community and charity events through the magic of character performance.

Fur the Record is a DJ crew/event production company having run dances on last year's RainFurrest and Further Confusion

Stay up to date on our events in the Pacific Northwest and around the country!
This is NOT a planning list and you will only recieve official announcements, once every 1-3 months.

The movie premiered in China on the 11th this month. No word yet if this will receive a release outside of their borders. It looks to me it maybe inspired off of Kung Fu Panda.

A surprisingly healthy population of rare snow leopards has been caught on camera in the wilds of Afghanistan. Researchers spotted 30 snow leopards in 16 different locations by placing camera traps in the mountains of northeastern Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor.

Snow leopards are threatened by poaching for their fur, the illegal pet trade and shepherds, but researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society said they were pleasantly surprised by the number of cats they found.

“This is a wonderful discovery – it shows that there is real hope for snow leopards in Afghanistan,” said Peter Zahler, Deputy Director for Asia Programs, in a press release. “Now our goal is to ensure that these magnificent animals have a secure future as a key part of Afghanistan’s natural heritage.”

Conservationists estimate between 4,500 and 7,500 wild snow leopards still live in the remote mountains of Central Asia. Tourism, paired with conservation, they write, could boost both the local economy and the snow leopard’s chances of survival. The Wakhan Corridor, linking Afghanistan and China, is a historical trading route and one of the few peaceful places in Afghanistan. Its people have largely escaped the conflict and strife found elsewhere.

evilsibe has set up a nice sub-reddit for adult furry works (porn, yiff). I don't wish to steal his users.

A reddit user posed a content ratings question: (paraphrased)

Wouldn't a content rating of G -- PG-13 restrict not only porn, but also interesting non-porn content?

What should be the content restrictions?

• Violence
• Sexual
• Porn
• Nude non-pornographic art (Michelangelo's statue of David)
• Non-furry content ( regular or porn )
• Pirated content ( torrents, megaupload )
• Do Not Post lists (most times it is because of pirated content)

A soft restriction could allow the content, but prefer the content to be on r/yiff ? (You could post it here, but r/yiff would prefer it more.)

Recommend rating:

• Content Rating: G -- NC-17 (porn may or may not be allowed)
• Recommended that porn be on r/yiff

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The Saskatoon SPCA is wrestling with the fate of seven dogs rescued from a rural home near Yorkton after the animals ate the remains of their deceased owners.

RCMP last week found the couple -- a man, 67, and woman, 57 -- who had died on a rural property near Springside. Police do not suspect foul play, but the matter is being investigated by the coroner.

Police concluded that for more than a week the dogs -- five Shelties and two mixed breeds -- survived by eating the remains of the couple.

The question now is whether the dogs should be put down or given a new home.

Neighbour Margaret-Ann Irving, who knew the dogs' owners, said the animals cannot now be adopted.

"Those dogs need to be put down," she said. "You can't place a dog that's been eating on human flesh for two or three weeks and put it in a home where there might be a child."

Saskatoon SPCA spokeswoman Tiffiny Koback said it was not an automatic conclusion that the animals should be euthanized.

"They're simply doing what it takes to survive, given the circumstances," said Koback. "So we're not concerned that they're going to go out there and start looking at someone and equating it as a meal."

The dogs are being assessed by a local animal rescue organization to determine whether they are adoptable. Potential owners would be told of their background.

The provincial SPCA said the fate of the dogs in cases like this rests with the local shelter, in this case, the Saskatoon agency.

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Author: GreenReaper

Last weekend saw ScotiaCon draw about 50 furs, guests and staff to the Ramada Jarvis Hotel in Inverness. Around a dozen fursuits were seen during the three-day event.

Scotland’s first furry convention was in planning for over two years. Fursuit builder Fatkraken and local composer Fox Amoore were the guests of honour.

Learn more: ScotiaCon 2011 trailer and outtakes – Equium’s con report

See also: ScotiaCon 2011 trailer and outtakes – con reports: Equium, Awkore

A fursuit trip to Inverness ended in downpour, but the auction was a success, with a 30-year-old bottle of Famous Grouse going for £450. Attendees were also invited to sample local delicacies, such as Cullen Sink, haggis and deep-fried Mars bar.

Hotel staff got into the spirit, wearing tails and singing along. There’s plenty of room for expansion, with space for at least 200 attendees.

The launch of this new event came just two months after ConFuzzled in Manchester, now the only other British convention after the suspension of London’s RBW in February.

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Please read my furry fiction: http://fenaux.deviantart.com/art/Just-Another-Day-at-the-Office-244299180

It may be very slightly NSFW, depending on your sensitivities. Please read for literary comprehension, share your thoughts, and critique!

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Author: RingtailedFox

We’ve known for ages that animals are sentient beings, albeit on a lower level than humans. These stories provide insight into animals’ thought processes and emotions, how they cope with sadness and disappointment, and how they can recover when conditions improve.

Our first story is about Gigi, a Doberman Pinscher, who became depressed after losing her litter of two puppies following birth complications.

The second is a modern take on The Lion King: Agence France-Presse and Brazilian media report that a pair of lion partners were reunited at a zoo in Brasilia, the capital city of Brazil, after the male became so depressed by their separation that he stopped eating.

Puppy love

Gigi’s owner, Lynn White, noted that she had become despondent, stopped eating, and had to be force-fed. “She was very depressed. She loved her babies,” White said. [CBWT-TV (CBC Winnipeg)]

At the same time, Lynn’s friend Bev had puppy troubles of her own: Taylor, her Boxer, had a difficult pregnancy, and died two hours after giving birth to six healthy Boxer puppies. They agreed that they would try to pair up Taylor’s now-motherless foster puppies with Gigi.

White described the arrangement as perfect:

It worked out fabulously. She took to the puppies right way and it was like a match made in heaven.

The six boxer puppies have been living with Gigi for four days now. Gigi has suddenly perked up — almost as if she had a reason to live again, according to White. The Doberman immediately took to cleaning the Boxer puppies and feeding them, although White had to help Gigi with nursing the puppies, to ensure the pups could continue to feed.

It’s so important the puppies have the interaction with the mom. It doesn’t always work out. Sometimes the mom just refuses,

For the next few weeks, the puppies and their new mom will be living at Bev’s house, an hour outside of Brandon, Manitoba. All are doing well.

Lonely lion

Dengo the lion was sedated for his transfer from Niterói‘s ZooNit – which lost its license due to non-compliance issues – to a facility in Brasilia. The herculean effort included eight men loading the tranquilized lion out of his cage, and flying him from Niterói to Brasilia via a Brazilian Air Forceplane (as reported by O Globo).

The eleven-year-old feline, and his friend, ten-year-old Elza the lioness shared a cage in Niterói for eight years, before they were seperated. After Elza was transfered, Dengo spent most of his days lying down, without an appetite. However, things are looking up, as Dengo and Elza will share a large open space with several other lions and Bengal tigers.

The reunion was undertaken by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, as part of a larger animal relocation from ZooNit on Thursday. Some 490 animals are due to be transferred this month. [The Calgary Herald]

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Author: RingtailedFox

This year’s E3 presentation was one that many will not forget, as it contained the unveiling of the new “Wii U” video game console. It also had a rather interesting Question and Answer session where series creator Shigeru Miyamoto warned developers (hopefully jokingly) that if Star Fox 64 3D (home) and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (home) were not the best video games in their respective series, both series would be cancelled — permanently.

Certainly, such a severe warning would be meant to push the developers to make the best games they can. However, gaming website IGN interviewed Katsuya Eguchi, a Nintendo software producer and director, who revealed that Nintendo may already be considering a new Star Fox game for the Wii U, to make up for the flying fox’s no-show on the Wii.

Only time will tell if Fox McCloud and his friends return in a game of their own.

Find the full article here: flayrah – furry food for thought

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So I haven't written anything in a long time and I want to get back into it. There is one problem though, I have no idea what to write about. I want to keep the story PG-13 and have no idea for a plot or anything. All I have is the characters in my head. So I come to you r/furry to help me out. What kind of story would you like to see written and read.

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If you were presented with a button that would turn all of the people in the world into anthropomorphic animals, would you press it? Of course, each person's animal would be based on their own choice...

This got quite a bit of debate over on FAF, so I was wondering if Reddit would like to give their opinion.

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Just want to get impressions because I'm a Boston area furry and there's already multiple supporters of the idea. There's a growing furry population in Massachusetts. One of the latest meets had an excess of 50 people, and there have been more and more furmeets in the Boston area as of late. I missed most of them because they were either on the cape or were at the same time as my work hours. But I was wondering, for people who enjoy small conventions or those who go to Fur Fright merely because it's the closest one (For any new England furs). How interested would any of you be in a Boston furry convention? I've always thought it would be great. PAX East was moved to Boston in 2010 and turned out to be a surprising success, so it's staying here. Could a furry convention have a surprisingly massive turnout as well?

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