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20$ Full Body, Full shaded Emergency Commissions
I am doing emergency commissions to be able to take my bearded dragon to the vet monday. She is infested with mites and needs to be checked for worms as well.
I have done 3 of 4 already taken commissions, and need to fill the other 6 slots. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
To take slots you can comment on my FA journal: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5640733/
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Furry Dakimakura![That means body pillow]
How do you guys get treated, in real life and on the internet?
I think I might be a furry (well sort of. I don't feel like I'm absolutely one but I also really like the idea of it). One of my main problems is I don't feel comfortable acting a like a furry even on my own because I'm afraid that if anyone finds out, they'll be mean to me. So... how have you guys been treated?
submitted by WatUpMyShubNiggurath[link] [46 comments]
This Furry Has an Ironic Fear of Animals
First, I’m sorry for my bad English. I'll try to do my best though. So, I thing I have a really weird problem. I love furries since I was 14 (something like that), but I’m afraid of animals. I can't even approach a dog, or I have to control myself. My question is, is it normal to be like this? I'm a furry, I love artworks about it, and I can't touch any animals. Isn't it a shame for someone like me?
Thanks in advance, it's really bothering me...
Naokami
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Dear Naokami,
This is a new one on me, really. One of the traits of every furry I have thus far met is that they are animal lovers. There must be something you like about animals—their fur, their tales, wings, snouts, something—that attracts you to them, otherwise you would not be a furry.
Yet the disconnect between reality and fantasy is not unique to you. For example, many a young girl falls in love with her collection of plastic horses, but get her near a real horse and she screams in terror and runs away. I love bears, but I certainly would not want to stand face to face with a real grizzly in its natural habitat. Same thing, likely, with all those wolf furries out there who, I would bet, would be most uncomfortable hiking in Montana only to come across a pack of real live timber wolves.
Those are cases, of course, of wild animals (except for the horses). You say you are afraid of all animals, including dogs, cats, pet birds, even fish? One possible explanation is that you have had a traumatic past experience with a pet. You don’t mention that, but it is also possible that it happened when you were very young and your mind is suppressing the experience. It might not even be a real-life experience that triggered the fear. For instance, a lot of people came to fear sharks because of the movie Jaws, or big dogs because of the movie Cujo, or rats from the movie Ben.
Sometimes, too, fears are just in your head for no reason. The very definition of phobia is “irrational fear.” Some pet phobias include:
- Cynophobia: fear of dogs
- Ailurophobia: fear of cats
- Ornithophobia: fear of birds
- Ichthyophobia: fear of fish
- Ophiophobia: fear of snakes
- Leporiphobia: fear of rabbits
and so on...
And, of course, there’s my favorite, Arachnophobia, the fear of spiders. I don’t exactly pee my pants at the site of the spider, and I’m fine with most of them, even tarantulas, but I totally freak out at the sight of a black widow spider. That’s not really an irrational phobia, because I know someone who was bitten by a venomous spider, but I do understand how an animal can make your skin crawl. It’s a good thing you don’t have Maskaphobia, or, seriously, the fear of masks, because then you’d never be able to go to a furry convention.
Why people fear some specific things is not always well understood. If it is not caused by a traumatic event in the past, it could be a learned behavior from your parents or other family members, for example. There might, in some cases, even be a case for genetic memory. That is, for example, our ancestors learning that some snakes were venomous and becoming afraid of them and that fear somehow being encoded in our brains over generations. This might seem a good explanation for some fears, such as snakes, falling, wolves, etc., but not for others, such as the fear of cheese (Turophobia) or the fear of beards (Pogonophobia). If you have the latter, don’t look at me.
Your fear of cats and dogs could be a manifestation of ancestral fears of such things as wolves and lions—a stretching-it hypothesis. I would vote that, more likely, it has to do with something in your past or a learned behavior.
Like all behaviors, the good news is that you can unlearn it. The basic approach is to face your fears in a controlled, step-by-step manner, gradually exposing yourself to the thing you fear in a safe environment, and slowly increasing your exposure to it. Here’s a useful explanation of that: http://www.wikihow.com/Overcome-Phobia.
Perhaps your interest in the furry fandom is you unconsciously trying to get over that fear in your own way. You know, many furcons donate money to animal charities. You might try going to a furcon—an environment where you would feel safe and surrounded by people you like—and talk to the people at one of those charities and look at the animals they often bring with them. Tell them about your phobia and see if they might not let you touch or pet one of their animals. Doing so under the supervision of a pet handler might make it easier for you.
So that is the long-winded response to your question. While fearing animals is not a hugely unusual phobia, it is quite uncommon among furries, but the good news is that you can overcome your fear if you really wish to.
Good luck!
Papabear
Don’t Let a Fight with a Former Friend Destroy Your Social Life
Any Dutch furs around here?
So i'm looking for some dutch furs I can't really seem to find them though.
Skype : coliaon ( this icon https://31.media.tumblr.com/99ba91ddfad5fd416d0740ed93ed48d0/tumblr_n38218ycXq1s1gwlzo1_1280.jpg)
kik & steam : cuddlypants
submitted by cuddlypants[link] [7 comments]
Therianthropes United
An extensive and thorough reference guide concerning mythological creatures and spiritual beliefs like otherkin.
In their wordsTherianthropes.com is the expression of our love for animals and the desire we have to save our planet and unleash all the other species, existing, extinct and imaginary. It is not too late so let’s get together!
Rating
Suitable for all ages. This site has no offensive content.
Apparently, I'm a rascal. [BLFC video]
Space Cats to the Rescue
The creator of Tiny Titans is branching out in a funny animal direction now, as Art Baltazar and his friends bring us Captain Action Cat: The Timestream CATastrophe, a new full-color 4-issue comic miniseries starting this month from Dynamite Entertainment. Check out this promo from Comic Book Resources: “From the Eisner and Harvey award-winning, New York Times bestselling famous cartoonists Art Baltazar and Franco comes the crossover epic event of a lifetime! Finally, Captain Action Cat meets Action Cat and the characters from Aw Yeah Comics! Also crossing over with Dark Horse Comics characters such as Ghost, X, Captain Midnight, and The Occultist, this series promises the typical zaniness that the creators of Tiny Titans are known for. True story! In Captain Action Cat: The Timestream CATastrophe #1, there is something evil out there and Evil Cat is determined to find it… even if it means searching throughout the Silver Age to do it!”

image c. 2014 Dynamite Entertainment
Welp, spring break is here, free commissions.
Not promising solid gold or anything. Got a drawing tablet a while back and need some practice with it. So, to those who are on spring break have a good break and to everyone else have a good spring!
Commission info:
NFSW, depends what it is, not drawing yiff or anything of that nature but bikinis, undergarments, all good!
It might look a bit on the bad side.
It's free if you didn't catch that.
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East Texas furs?
Anybody out here? Not many furs I know 'round here in East Texas!
submitted by soulbutnosoldier[link] [3 comments]
I'm staying up literally the whole weekend, and I need people to Skype so I can occupy myself.
Thinking about livestreaming some Smash Bros. in a few days, wanted to see how it would be received if I posted it here :)
I'm gonna post it to /r/SmashBros as well to get people to come hang out, so I expect you fuzzy buts out there to behave yourselves, y'hear? :p
I just wanted to gauge interest before I went out and set it all up, so let me know if you guys would like to watch!
submitted by ObsoletePixel[link] [3 comments]