Well, after years of threatening, New Zealand is banning pet ferrets. The article is full of inaccuracies (NO other place overseas has a feral ferret population besides NZ, and NZ's was the result of intentional release of thousands of animals 100 years ago).
If you live in New Zealand, stick up for your friends with ferrets, please!

Cartoon Network made a rather callous and ignorant response to the issue of their banning of Speedy Gonzales, quoted here on Fox News.

As a result, a petition has been started to reinstate Speedy.

LA police use non-uniformed officers in sting operations to catch speeding motorists... but decided do go one better than just not wearing their uniforms.

Read the story here.

Lets have more fursuited policing! :-)

In the search for the perfect security robot in Japan, it's a dog eat dinosaur world.

CNN's Larry King Live is carrying a Ripley's Belive it or Not special, including Tigerman and a few other strange folks. Oh yeah, and Dean Cain ("Superman" TV show).

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Some great things happened during this month with FurEauction!

A new issue of Tales of the Tai-Pan Universe was mailed to all current subscribers earlier this week and will be available for purchase from Rabbit Valley soon! The issue may also be purchased directly from the editor at NorWesCon this weekend.

UPN has now picked up Wolf Lake. Commercials have already started airing on Sci Fi network.

"We believe there were several forces that led to the development of anatomically and behaviorally modern humans, and that the close relationship between our human ancestors and wolves was one of the key factors," Paul Tacon, principal research scientist at the Australian Museum, told Reuters.

At the heart of their contention that the ancestors of man's best friend were instrumental in helping humans to survive and thrive is what they call growing archaeological and genetic evidence that the partnership went back at least 100,000 to 130,000 years -- far longer than conventionally thought."

Go here for the rest of the story.

Somebody is going to die at ConFurence 2002!

Fitting in with this year's theme "Furry Noir" there will be a live-action Role Playing Game (LARP) occurring in the hallways at ConFurence, starting with a murder on Friday.

A dachshund who was carried away by an eagle is expected to make a full recovery after being wounded in the rare attack.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/03/24/eagle.dachshund/index.html

A recently-created furry portal called Fur Central has caused a few eyebrows to be lifted recently within the Furry community. The proprietor of the site has created a half-joking, half-serious list that he posts about once a week called "The Worst of the VCL." This hand-picked list profiles the thumbnails and description entries from various VCL artists. In the inaugral posting of the "Worst of the VCL" the author explains, "I've decided to start a new weekly feature ... for something that's been driving me nuts for a long, long time: bad art in the VCL. ... starting now, every week I will point out my picks for the 10 worst images from the VCL's recent uploads."

Mad surgeon is busy developing techniques to make the human body more beastly!

Just fyi, this isn't particularly furry, but it is funny, something I think most furs would enjoy. I didn't see any reviews and I figured I'd try my paw at one. I give it a 9 for the lack of furry content and this being a furry news site. Otherwise, its a 10.

Just when you thought the creators of the Scooby-Doo movie couldn't sink any lower, word comes forth that a deleted scene involved Daphne and Velma sharing a passionate moment. Wacky comedy or scriptwriters living out their erotic fantasies?

http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Awful/Archive2002/020321.html?fdmainalt1