Digging Up Positivity - May 2026

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Hey! This episode you can win this awesome limited edition ALS themed trading card from Royalty Card Game, more information later in the video after a wonderful interview with the driving force behind this wonderful initiative!

Welcome to the 5th episode of Digging Up Positivity video of this year! This episode is packed with animation news but oooh so much charities because the furries have been BUSY!

Charity

RUFF raised $906

Starting off in the USA earlier this year we had the Richmond Fur Fair, also known as RUFF, being hosted from the Virginia Commonwealth University. They raised $906 for the Richmond Legal Fund, that connects community members with legal resources, which is direly needed in a country where the legal rights of many are being eroded with each passing day!

Furgeddaboutit raised $11,899.94

Staying in the US we have Frugeddaboutit, where 1101 fluffy friends raised $11,899.94 for the Cedar Wildlife Refuge, a 171-acre non-profit wildlife refuge, rehabilitation hospital and nature center on the edge of the New Jersey Pinelands.

Team Dogbomb raised $3,175.00

Every year at the Raleigh ALS walk, Team Dogbomb is part of this wonderful initiative. This year they have raised $3,175.00 but that is not all! This year they joined forces with RoyaltyCardGame and released a limited edition card. It’s all shiny! And Digging Up Positivity is giving away 2 of them! More about this in this weeks interview with CrownedFeline from RoyaltyGardgame later this episode! During this event, Dogbombs’ old car, Barbera a wonderful 1973 Chevrolet Vega and currently kept in pristine condition by Storm Wolf was part of the show. Giving everything that extra bit of flair!

Almita Otter raised $240.00

Almita Otter is one of those amazing squeakers from the furry fandom that keeps on popping up doing good for her community! This time she raised $240 for Children’s day in Mexico. She bought toys and a huge cake for these little ones, providing a day to never forget!

Furry Weekend Atlanta raised $150,000.00

17,301 amazing beans in Atlanta, USA came together during Furry Weekend Atlanta and raised a mind boggling $150,000.00 for Lost-N-Found youth, continuing their tradition of a top convention world wide when it comes down to raising money for charity! Lost-N-Found youth is an Atlanta based nonprofit that exists to battle homelessness amongst LGBTQ+ and all sexual minority youngsters.

TeamFastestFurs raised $16,896

Amongst the people working hard to get that amazing result from Furry Weekend Atlanta is TeamFastestFurs, they all raised $16,896 that wonderful weekend. TeamFastestFurs can be found all around the world, speed running various games, and they have their own event later this year during fall fest!

MeetsFurYou raised $144.06

At many Dutch comic conventions the MeetsFurYou team is there to provide information about the furry fandom, but also to support fursuiters and cosplayers alike with some refreshments and a place to chill out. Now, this all is not for free, and this would not be possible without the donations from the furries themselves! Last Comic Con Holland they donated a grand total of $144.06

Anthrohio raised $18,119.00

Meanwhile in the USA, Anthrohio has raised $18,119.00 for Working Animals Giving Service for Kids (also known as WAGS 4 kids), an organisation that is dedicated to provide service doggo’s for children throughout central Ohio!

Furlandia raised $6,653.00

But there is more from the US: Furlandia has raised $6,653.00 for The Pixie Project, a non-profit animal adoption center that goes the extra mile to ensure a good bond between our furry friends and their new forever home.

Nashum Furcon raised $4,000.00

We have a new possum under the block: Nashum Furcon, and they immediately raised quite a nice amount for Harmony Wildlife: [Video: Announcing $4,000.00] What a first convention, and here is to many more!

Mutley raises $704.64

Mutley a wonderful bean from Ireland with green thumbs, just check out their plants and little garden in their little corner of the internet, has raised $704.64 for the Free Legal Advice Centers together with the Vhi Women’s Mini Marathon team during Walking For Flac. This organisation is promoting equal access to justice for everyone through advice, information, but also advocacy by taking on strategic cases that will have a wider effect than just the individual involved!

Other News

Irish Furries in the news!

We are staying in Ireland with Jay the dog, a member of the Irish furry community and part of the convention Anthro Irish the have been interviewed by the Irish Independent, not just with a big interview in the newspaper, but a video as well. He emphasises the element of play in the fandom, being wholesome and the opportunity to just be yourself within the community, no matter where you are from.

But also how within our community the LGBTQ crowd is considered the norm. Especially now with Pride Month, this is a wonderful thing to emphasise. While people online could only check out the video, in the newspaper themselves 3 other members are covered! Grape Soda, who landed in the fandom through the game Animal Jam, and these days Grape organises ‘Paws and Pints’, where furries can meet up without their costumes. Ink, the organiser of AnthroIrish tells how they rolled into the fandom through Pokemon and you might know them from an earlier interview on this very show at April 2024! And last but certainly not least we have Alex, who is known within the fandom as Berry the proton, which the newspaper describes as half animal, half robot with the head of a crow.

I certainly hope to see them all at AnthroIrish at the end of July! This will be my first time in Ireland too. So hyped!

Foxfield Railway

Think about England, eventually trains come to mind. They do have a rich legacy of steam trains and the Foxfield railway is keeping the memory alive. It’s an award winning heritage steam railway in Staffordshire. But as the name said, Foxfield, yeah, Fox! They recently introduced Reg, a very British looking fox with a passion fortrains, who is their new mascotte. They even animated that little fellow! It’s a bit of a shame it’s on the way to AnthroIrish, or else I would have dropped by. But this is certainly on my bucket list!

Walkie

What started out as a simple animation about the choice for dinner ends up in a very interesting journey with a wonderful message: You can take so long choosing something until you paralyse, realising when you finally make the choice, it is too late. However there is always tomorrow and it is never too late to try something new. This does not just go for food, but so many other things as well. From food, to a travel destination, from conventions to your steam library of games. Take your time to make that choice, but do make it in the end!

Driving me loony

Independent animation always has a big place in my heart and when a team is giving homage to the animated golden age from the likes of Tex Avery and Chuck Jones then you got my undivided attention! The team behind Chucky Chicken still loves 2D hand drawn animation and the silly slapstick humor of yore. Their latest animated short ‘Driving me loony’ did quite a number! Besides being nominated at various festivals, they won best animated short at the LA Sun Film Fest and the Northwest Illinois Film Festival.

The short shows Chucky Chicken trying to submit his film to the big studio in town, and when he is at the studio grounds, a clumsy friend tries to take him to the administration, with all the shenanigans you’d expect from a golden age cartoon.
One of the things I absolutely love about independent animators these days, is there is so much diversity in both styles, storytelling and genres where with big budget studios everything eventually has the tendency to flow towards following that the trend of the time. If you see some awesome furry themed animations about, why don’t you share them with us in the comments? I’d love to expand my horizon!

[Featurette: Lazuli]

Thank You

If you want one of those shiny limited edition Dogbomb cards! Please do leave a comment on this video, saying you want one, and we will pick 2 random winners. You have time to respond to June 28th, and we will announce the lucky winners in our next episode on July 4th.

And a big thank you for staying with me till the very end. I will be streaming just about every Monday on both YouTube and Twitch, and the following amazing critters are going the extra mile by supporting me on Patreon, Twitch and Youtube

• Patreon: Manick Knux, Taross Blackburn, Tantroo McNally, Cosmik, Ishnula, Els Deckers, Score Chaser
• Youtube Channel Members: Baphnedia, Iorek Byrnison, Joe & Mavi, Longtooth, Rex The Warhorse, WitherDZN
• Twitch subscribers: ladylyanne, falconeio, jake_r_getanppa, jabuyeen, lightnymfa, maarten_w, swex_the_mischievous_fox, hanzanajanssen,longtooth67

The next episode of Digging Up Positivity will be on July 4th, hope to see you there, stay awesome and all the hugs!