Hi all.

Those of you who want to get copies of my stories from my webpage have less than 2 weeks to download them. All the stories including "My Tutor has 6 tails," "Far from Home," and the rest of the webpage will cease to be in a little while.

Why, you ask? The answer is simple and out of my control. The ISP I've used for the past 7 years is closing down. And when it goes bye-bye, my storage space (and account) go with it. They will shut down on August 30 of 2002.

Furnation is temporarily offline after their service provider filed Chapter 11 and abruptly cut off their service. They have found another provider and hope to be back up on Monday, but the new provider is asking a $350 setup fee.

There is more information at the Furnation website, including how to make donations to help offset the setup fee.

If you read The Onion or any number of other publications you may have seen the less-than-flattering response to a question about furry published in the August 7th column of "Savage Love" (Savage Love is a question/answer column written by sex advice guru Dan Savage). Unsurprisingly there was an overwhelming response to his take on the fandom, its origins and interests. His August 14th column has a small blurb at the bottom that reads "Next week in Savage Love: Furries speak! And roll over! And go on the carpet! And attempt to chew me a furry new asshole!"

Judging by the last part I think we can safely guess that a large portion of the feedback he got was little more than flaming rhetoric -- and if there's one thing Dan loves to do it is to dish back as good as he's gotten. We can expect fireworks next week for sure.

A vet in Germany has created a special drop off flap at his office for people who don't want their pets anymore to get rid of them with anonymity. The flap leads to a plush box, which is then opened by the vet, who will vaccinate and adopt out the animal without ever having seen the owner.
As scummy as the sort of people USING this box might come across as, there is definatly a need, as often pets are simply left at the side of the road to avoid dealing with an animal shelter. Strangly enough, a nunnery and orphanage in Brazil has a similar drop off box... for unwanted babies.

According to the BBC, several animals in the Prague Zoo have fallen victim to the terrible flooding there.

Conifur Northwest is pleased to announce an expansion of our sponsorship program: we've devised some nice new rewards for those who help us out. You can read all about them here, or click on "Read more" to see a summary.

From Time.com: "Until now, devising tools to inflict pain and death seemed to be something only humans did. To be sure, lots of animals use tools. Sea otters employ rocks to crack open shellfish. Crows in New Caledonia extract insects from foliage with twigs—or even bent wire—held in their beaks. Chimps will use sticks and stones for all sorts of purposes, including flailing and throwing them to impress rivals. But for all the theatrics of these so-called threat displays, no one before now had ever seen an ape use a stick to beat another ape."

"There are sound evolutionary reasons for this. Predators don't need weapons; they are weapons. During internecine wars, chimps will rip one another apart with their teeth and hands. Indeed, a good deal of evolutionary ingenuity has gone into the development of greeting and submission rituals to ward off lethal aggression."

There's a lot of soy in the world. So besides creating adhesives, heavy metal filters and biofuel, we can enjoy a future of edible crayons. No, just because you ate them when you were four doesn't make the old wax ones edible. The perfect tool for the starving artist!

Taken from alt.fan.furry....

From: Dwight J. Dutton (dwight_dutton@hotmail.com)
Subject: You can buy Huzzah! direct from us again
Newsgroups: alt.fan.furry

Since Roz & I will not be represented at another convention for almost a
half a year, we finally set up the "e-commerce" site.

1)Attend ceremony
2)Become overwhelmed by cute lobsters
3)Grab them from the pot before they're boiled and run down the driveway shouting "I'm saving the lobsters, I'm saving the lobsters!"

With the apparent disbanding of Burned Fur, the registration of the domain "burnedfur.com" was allowed to lapse. The domain was snapped up on August 7th by one of the numerous cybersquatting companies out on the 'net and turned into a site peddling the usual pornography seen in other such cases.

If you've got a link to www.burnedfur.com on your site you probably will want to remove it at this point. Nothing to see here, move along, move along...

According to this article on a California TV station's website, a zebra helped make rush hour in San Luis Obispo, CA just a little bit stranger on Tuesday. A link is provided within the article to a video of the rogue zebra on the freeways.

He probably beat most people on the roads to their destinations, too.

A bunch of renovating bunnies in the UK have been cleaning house in their warren, and in the process have kicked out pieces of a 14th century manor house window. The original manor was demolished in the 15th century when the owners built a new house and found the old one blocked the view. Protecting the artifacts for the future could mean the rabbits might be out of house and home.

Hello everyfur!

Well, here in Pittsfurgh we furs like to howl in the Summer and howl it out in the Autumn with a bi-annual furry meet at the Foxes' Den in Aspinwall, PA!

This year is no different and the Fall Fur-b-que will be held Columbus Day weekend October 12th & 13th.

The FurNation system is undergoing a change and upgrade right now. The front end is complete and now we are working on the backend engines that will provide all the new services we will offer.

We just added a newsfeed from Flayrah.com to the front page. Pretty cool! I couldn't be more happy that Flayrah exists, as it is one of the best sources of furry related news in the universe!