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SERIES: Who runs your community? Five stories about predators with powerful friends in fandom.

No consequences for participating in the worst crime ring to ever emerge in fandom.

A series of international furry events under the name Club Animalz (and other names) has been held in Manchester and Berlin since 2017. The founder, Foxb/Foxbearance, AKA Ben Mills, was exposed as an animal rapist in the 2018 zoosadist leaks. Mills raped animals on video, in a fursuit made for him, that he used for years. In 2025, his events are still popular and partnered with large cons in the mainstream of furry like Confuzzled.

The evidence in the 2018 zoosadist leaks led to multiple arrests, featured in a TV true crime docuseries, The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster. The show interviews court workers and hardened police veterans who quit their careers from the trauma of seeing the brutal torture of animal victims. Lawyers went over the show, and if it could be challenged in court, it wouldn’t have been made. The leaks are unquestionably real, but hundreds of participants got away.

Foxb was one of the participants who never faced justice. His messages to a ringleader, Levi “Snakething” Simmons (who is now jailed for 25 years) discussed making “zoosuit” abuse videos with a tag for the party he ran.

In 2025, Foxb has the same power he always had. Dogpatch Press was recently contacted with a tip:

Foxb/Foxbearance, otherwise known as Rutt, Rutt Pup and their real name, Ben Mills, one of two directors of Club Animalz, Doggy weekend, HotDogz and other events, is an outed zoophile. After they were exposed via the zoosadism leaks in 2018, they now run events in the UK, Germany and elsewhere.

Foxb’s Barq profile directly points them to running said events. A search via Companies House, a publicly accessible site to obtain company information within the UK, places Foxb (Ben Mills) as one of two directors of ‘Big Red Bone Limited‘ (archived) which is linked from the bottom of ‘Doggy Weekend‘ and ‘Club Animalz‘.

Either people have forgotten, just don’t care, or stay unaware, which would be a shame considering most people in the fandom would reject such people who subject animals to awful things. People should be more aware of those they are supporting by going to these events. Zoos have no place in the fandom.

Information was obtained via Heikadog’s zoophile evidence list, along with hosted links to images of said abuse.

Check the zoophile evidence list (and read about Heika’s anti-zoophile community moderation.)

The leaked chats match videos that would get reporting shut down if posted in full. Face concealment and short statutory limits makes known loopholes to get away with abuse, but Foxb posted his Rutt Pup fursuit as made for him in 2012 and kept it for years after with no defense about abusing animals in it while organizing furry events.

The events run by this zoosadist ring member are now partnered with “mainstream UK furry conventions, including Confuzzled in 2024”. -Wikifur.

• Animalz announcement on Twitter
• Confuzzled announcement on website and Twitter

Individual event accounts run by Foxb/Ben Mills have been added to the Heikadog evidence list with the “zoophile supporter” label.

MORE IN THE SERIES

• Tennessee furry group leaders corrupted with predators and drug death; two evidence documents.
• Mephit Furmeet put one of the world’s most infamous zoophiles on stage to represent the fandom.
• Mare Fair enabled shady crypto nazis and a zoophile organizer who preyed on horse rescues.
• Nazifur sex offender keeps going in and out of jail while misleading furries to trust him.

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SERIES: Who runs your community? Five stories about predators with powerful friends in fandom.

Charles Alexander Berry (Toggle Rat) runs NAMBLA for zoophiles

For years, furry conventions have hosted Charles Alexander Berry, AKA Toggle Rat. He runs a podcast that launders animal molesting as identity, like NAMBLA for zoophiles, while hiding their victims offstage. In 2021 he was outed as a zoophile with his husband running a furry group in Tennessee. Many people’s effort to protect the fandom went unheard in August 2025, when despite protest, Berry was given a platform on stage at Mephit Furmeet, the furry con running since the 1990’s in Memphis, TN.

Before Berry was unmasked and protested, furries who were unaware saw him play ordinary music at conventions. Meanwhile his fursona Toggle Rat made voice-changed propaganda for his zoophile podcast. It does “openly positive and joyful” faux-identity-activism, based on mental gymnastics to get around the line of consent, making otherwise unobtainable validation for predators whose victims who can’t consent. Berry/Toggle touts zoophiles as secret community influencers, similar to pedophiles boasting about running churches. Take the boasting for validation with a heap of salt, of course:

Here’s how NAMBLA set the example; if you wanted to know more — and you shouldn’t — they claimed to be about free speech for child advocates and history lovers, manipulatively omitting the abuse while glorifying “boy love” as a tradition from before there were laws against molesting. All legal, they say. Pedophiles have tried and failed to sell this at furry cons, but Toggle’s shady echo chamber has wormed into furry crossover.

When predators target furry cons, you may ask how many are convicted abusers. Or you might ask how many of Berry’s zoo crew haven’t been busted yet for conspiracy to abuse in their cybercrime underworld full of illicit media trading. His podcast co-founder friend was the felon in this headline: “Coke kingpin Douglas Spink busted for running bestiality farm in Washington state.” Another co-hosting friend was Sean Patrick Kraese, AKA Quantum Kitty, a US Marine and zoophile-necrophile who was convicted in 2024 for abusing animals and distributing videos of it, after fouling his neighborhood with burn piles for their bones.

If you smell smoke, there’s fire with these organized predators, caught or uncaught. Complaining of thoughtcrime, bigotry, kink shaming or “cancel culture” about this would be like calling NAMBLA the champions of democracy. It makes Charles Alexander Berry one of the last people you’d ever want as a regular con-goer or on stage representing the furry fandom.

Charles Alexander Berry on stage at Mephit Furmeet (with band name Exit Mouse), a long-ignored problem despite years of protest.

Consistently attending Mephit Furmeet since 2013, with favor from con management

Years protest went unheard in August 2025, when a local source at Mephit Furmeet said: “He performed at the masquerade, it was set up to be a talent show type thing.” This wasn’t a random bad person attending under their noses, or just not taking action. Management directed him face-to-face as someone they’d hosted for years, while approving who would represent furry fandom on their stage.

This is on record with one of Berry’s known aliases making a public schedule for 27 panels he would attend at the 2025 con. There were at least 4 blown chances to curate the stage that hosted an infamous zoophile:

• Friday Masquerade signup. Berry was one of 10 attendees overseen by con director Blue Heeler Sunfire.
• Saturday Music jam. Berry was one of 16 attendees overseen by con director Blue Heeler Sunfire.
• Sunday Masquerade rehearsal. Berry was one of 5 attendees overseen by con director Blue Heeler Sunfire.
• Masquerade. Berry was one of 22 attendees overseen by con director Blue Heeler Sunfire.

Blue Heeler’s schedule shows these were the ONLY events he had to run, besides a Christian Fur panel to “discuss our beliefs and share our views”. (Do those views include giving a non-judgemental stage to an unrepentant sex abuser, while directing small panels with him throughout a weekend?) Blue Heeler is no hapless newcomer. He’s an old-time furry since the 1990’s, a musician like Berry, and Mephit Furmeet’s Directors page names him as equal to the con chair.

Charles Alexander Berry’s past attendance at Mephit Furmeet is on record with his other known aliases for over a decade.

• 2024 Schedule (archive)
• 2023 Schedule (archive)
• 2022 Schedule (archive)
• 2019 Schedule (archive)
• 2018 Schedule (archive)
• 2017 Schedule (archive)
• 2016 Schedule (archive)
• 2015 Schedule (archive)
• 2014 Schedule (archive)
• 2013 Schedule (archive)

There’s a gap, where a source says “that was around when he was called out locally, when all the videos were coming out.” The con may have plausible deniability before then… yet Berry kept coming back for years after alerts about a zoophile they had officially promoted for a long time. (Berry is “Buck Riley” with Exit Mouse):

This won’t change until it’s forced in the open

Dogpatch Press contacted Blue Heeler for comment, but he didn’t answer. It took two tries to get another director to break the silence with a two sentence reply.

Apparently, public pressure and making a PR issue is how to get results. (Especially when animal victims can’t report themselves, making it almost never a police priority). A source in the Tennessee furry scene has an opinion that puts some responsibility on everyone in the community to stay loud, even if it needs outside allies to protect them:

“Many people have gone to staff, and after talking to them, I do believe he’s got them bullied and will attempt to sue the con. He has a history of biting back, someone tried to dig on him, and he went as far to try and get them fired, as well as his husband making threats.

With friends freaking out that they allow him and others to attend, this year was really the stand out as far as his appearances have gone, he’s kinda hidden away before, but is getting more bold with his sense of ‘yall WONT do anything about me you CANT’.”

As factual as Berry’s outing is, the problem isn’t that he could sue and win, but that a small con couldn’t afford to defend. Having a director actively approve someone on stage isn’t just a “scared of threats” situation, especially with over a decade of favor; but a small one-weekend event isn’t the fandom police to make predators unwelcome 24/7/365. This is where collective solidarity has power.

The community took action when Berry was outed, and his husband was in charge of a Telegram chat for the entire area of Memphis. They made their own group to get away from him and make him irrelevant. Sometimes, a con’s management can make that an appropriate action towards the con itself.

After Blue Heeler didn’t answer Dogpatch Press request for comment, another director gave this official response from Mephit Furmeet:

This is what you get for years of protest. Finally, a vague reply, maybe given grudgingly after two tries by a reporter. Maybe they shouldn’t say too much, but do you think a director should have approved stage appearances over years of protest? Imagine if we had the president of NAMBLA itself using our community spaces, and making people afraid or resigned to it with no end in sight.

Sources believe the con won’t bother much more about it, because Berry is moving to another state soon. In fandom, the priests are self-moving to new churches… if we let them. Time to inform those who care there. If furries don’t want to be smeared as predators by hateful outsiders, don’t let predators use your spaces and give them a reason.

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• Tennessee furry group leaders corrupted with predators and drug death; two evidence documents.
• UK furry event founder and outed zoosadist ring member is still running events 7 years later.
• Mare Fair enabled shady crypto nazis and a zoophile organizer who preyed on horse rescues.
• Nazifur sex offender keeps going in and out of jail while misleading furries to trust him.

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SERIES: Who runs your community? Five stories about predators with powerful friends in fandom.

“We need justice”

MurfreesFurs, a furry group in Tennessee with around 1000 members, was the subject of an evidence document with 30 sources alleging that organizers covered up nazis and zoophiles in their inner circle, and failed to protect the community from predators. Sources face retaliation, and Dogpatch Press was pressured for suppression before even reporting. The shocking thing is, it was only part of the problem. A second evidence document came out independently from the first, alleging more serious complicity by MurfreesFurs organizers in CSAM, drug dealing and a fentanyl death. Sources include police reports and prison records.

The first and followup documents:

• Murfreesfurs: Tennessee’s Most Problematic Furry Community (450+ pages)
• Murfreesfurs & A Problematic Furry Community East TN Doc (140+ pages, with announcement channel) 

Reading almost 600 pages is a challenge, so it was boiled down by a two hour phone call with authors of the second doc, who are known but being protected from backlash here. The goal:

“If they’re responsible for a death, we firmly hope that justice is served for the family, and if kids and animals were harmed, we need justice for that too. It’s not enough to get them temporarily out of one hobby group and trust that they won’t just rebrand and come back.”

What Tennessee furry groups were involved

Regional furry groups involved include one for East Tennessee, and another one closer to the state center, who serve a few hundred members. There was no mention of Western Tennessee/Memphis (where Mephit Furmeet has been held since the 1990’s). Sources say that territorial issues are common regionally, but good group collaboration also reaches across states. There’s other center-regional groups, including one for Knoxville TN; and MurfreesFurs, which stood out from others and became ground zero for problems.

MurfreesFurs was unusual in size with around 1000 members from “all over”, not gathered organically by people knowing each other, but by recruiting with paid ads on TikTok. It targeted children as a supposed safe place for all ages. The main organizer of MurfreesFurs, Cade, was a minor when he started growing the group a few years ago.

Cade is a lynchpin of corruption in both evidence docs, although by serving as front guy and enabler to an even worse inner circle, including people who were already jailed. The circle was tied by co-housing, poly dating, and drug dealing protected by the management. Sources say these tight ties to Cade’s official team made conflicts of interest for coverups and grudges, so MurfreesFurs enabled predators and crime instead of serving community interest.

Common patterns and how much bigger this gets

It’s a story of patterns in common with many other corruption stories. Nazis get sympathy because they are friends, but their targets don’t get sympathy to protect them from bigotry. Nazi stuff is kept on the side in secret groups. A fellow organizer is caught conspiring on zoophile forums to rape animals, and gets no public consequence, just sympathy to protect reputations from being outed. There’s tears about a zoophile label ruining his life, but no concern about victims or alerting the community when he claims “trust me, I got better”, like a church moving a pedophile priest. Known drug dealers help run a group as a front for each other. Whistleblowers are smeared with manipulative labels against clout and cancel culture, and PR to keep the status quo.

From the first evidence doc:

The first evidence doc about Cade’s MurfreesFurs was treated as a tip of the iceberg by sources for the second, who said: “They have no clue how much bigger this gets.” The second evidence doc names more names.

It says evidence of drug dealing by Cade’s fellow organizer, Filthy, was carrying on the business of Filthy’s already-jailed friend, Zammy. Filthy was labeled Zammy’s “ambassador” and was head of a house called Musky Mansion. The possessions of Zammy were being kept for him at Musky Mansion until he got out of jail, and included a hard drive full of CSAM. House members were tasked with cleaning it, with jokes making it an open secret.

Meanwhile, Filthy was Cade’s official MurfreesFurs events coordinator. Cade’s boyfriend Dibbo was head of security for taking reports, making a conflict of interest for protecting the community from his own team. People at Musky Mansion expected to clean Zammy’s CSAM hard drive were biased in relationships, with the whole situation kept quiet under fear of police with drugs and guns in the house. Corruption was suppressed until their dating drama, high conflict, grudges and accusations at each other helped break it open. The hard drive was revealed as an afterthought! It has now been reported to police by people in the circle who decided to do the right thing, helped by community members who overcame suppression that silenced early whistleblowing.

Cavan “Zammy” Works – from doc and Rankin County Jail current inmate list

Fentanyl death, money, cons, and justice? 

Remember, the second document emerged independently from the first. The sources don’t know each other. It brings more evidence about MurfreesFurs organizer corruption on these points:

• Events coordinator Filthy took over Zammy’s drug dealing and possessions while he is jailed.
• Filthy’s house members were asked to clean up Zammy’s CSAM that went to police.
• The coverup of a fentanyl death linked to Zammy, of a victim named Prettywizard.

Here’s what the authors said to end our phone call:

MurfreesFurs management helped run a drug business under their watchful eye WHILE THEY ADVERTISE TO KIDS. We’ve been observing for a while and it keeps getting worse. We don’t know how many people could be involved.

Why is there no accountability for the death of Prettywizard? A fentanyl death could bring manslaughter or murder charges. We don’t know why, but suspect loopholes in making a case. The victim’s mother attended Furry Weekend Atlanta in hope to confront Zammy, with con staff prepared to step in if it got ugly.

We know Zammy plans to return to cons when he gets out of jail, and expect him to resume drug dealing there, like he has always done.

The drug dealing business that continued when he went to jail WAS MEANT TO FUND A CON!

We also found close ties to a rave event named RAVEFURREST and have taken action about it.

We took care to put many links in the doc, and took this to the level of law enforcement, with a case number you can look up.

If they’re responsible for a death, we firmly hope that justice is served for the family, and if kids and animals were harmed, we need justice for that too. It’s not enough to get them temporarily out of one hobby group and trust that they won’t just rebrand and come back. Who runs a furry group isn’t our big priority, but if MurfreesFurs continues to exist, we hope they get better people in charge. The community doesn’t feel safe. Voices are being silenced under threats of bans. 

Bringing this out wouldn’t be possible without a team. It’s a collective effort that takes a village, and is nobody’s one doing, but we’re thankful to everyone who has priorities in the right place.

Cade’s management recently moved to a Discord group, with staff replacement that is being criticized as performative PR, after being forced by extreme effort to expose corruption that continues to be suppressed. Critics want permanent resignations from the community and complete public transparency.

MORE IN THE SERIES

• Mephit Furmeet put one of the world’s most infamous zoophiles on stage to represent the fandom.
• UK furry event founder and outed zoosadist ring member is still running events 7 years later.
• Mare Fair enabled shady crypto nazis and a zoophile organizer who preyed on horse rescues.
• Nazifur sex offender keeps going in and out of jail while misleading furries to trust him.

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This may sound like a weird way to start a review but hear me out: Remember the 2021 movie Malignant? That James Wan horror film where a woman has a twin literally inside her? OK, remember how the film was a typical horror film up until the last act where it becomes this insane action flick? That’s how I describe Double Fine’s latest game Keeper: It starts out as one genre but suddenly changes to another genre out of nowhere and does it really well.

In Keeper, you play as a lighthouse that has gained sentience and, teamed up with a bird named Twig, you set forth on a journey to a nearby mountain, along the way solving at times simple puzzles while enjoying this serene, beautiful, yet almost haunting world. Truth be told, I really didn’t know what was going on as the story is very non-existent. You’re just this lighthouse going from Point A to Point B. There is no dialogue, which makes sense (I mean, you’re a walking building and the only other inhabitants on this island are creatures and sentient automatons), and while there are some environmental bits to explain the lore of the world, I still was pretty much lost with the story, especially around the ending portions, which I won’t spoil. But, weirdly enough? The lack of a coherent story is also a small plus as it allowed me to explore the world at my own leisure and really soak in this strange and beautiful island the game is set on. Not since the Zeno Clash games have I played something that is this haunting yet beautiful at the same time. The world has this Seussian look to it but if it was done to match the album cover of Plastic Beach by The Gorillaz and it’s like nothing I’ve seen in a while. Every area you visit all have this unique look and feel to them and I found myself, at times, stopping to just soak in the atmosphere and beauty. I love how there are zero UI elements or pop-ups, outside of a button prompt that pops up at select intervals, allowing the screen to be fully clean of excess and allowing the player to enjoy the art direction. Truth be told, I almost wished this game was more open-world then it was as I really just wanted to explore off the beaten path. Yeah, you technically can if you’re achievement hunting, but sometimes I just want to explore on my own free will, you know? What helps sell the idea of this being a world beyond our imagination is the soundtrack. Composed by David Earl, the soundtrack has this ethereal feel to it mixed with moments of peace and tranquility and intensity when the need arises. In fact, it almost reminded me of the band Enigma at points, specifically their song Return To Innocence, and the animated Animusic series. There is one track that did make me raise an eyebrow and it’s one mid-way through the game. I could very well be wrong, but it sounded a bit like the song ‘Suicide Is Painless’, the theme to M*A*S*H, which is an interesting choice of a song to take inspiration from, if you ask me. That aside, the soundtrack is another of this games strongest suits and it’s one I wouldn’t mind owning a copy of to listen to when I just feel like relaxing. On a side note, and this could very well just be me, but I noticed that when the lighthouse is walking, their footsteps seem to be synced in time to the music at points. Nothing too special there but it was something I noticed and I do like when games sync something up to the backing music.

Where I felt the game did kinda falter slightly was in the actual gameplay department. On the whole, the game is a standard walking simulator with simple puzzles to solve along the way, with the very first one being controlling your lighthouse and I need to admit something here: I almost dropped the game because of the intro section. What happens is that, once the lighthouse gains sentience, you start to walk and, what feels like every step, fall down. I’m not kidding when I was thinking that the game would be forcing me to keep my lighthouse balanced with every step and that almost killed the game for me. Thankfully, that part is just the opening section as the rest of the game, you’re able to walk normally. The stuff afterwards, though, I will say I wasn’t too much of a fan of. Like I said, this is a walking simulator so you’ll be doing a ton of walking, along with the occasional puzzle solving and these puzzles involve the usage of your light and Twig. While the walking aspects I did enjoy, it was the puzzles themselves I found to be not that engaging and, at times, downright stupidly simple. I’m not asking for Discworld-levels of moon logic puzzles here but some resemblance of a challenge would’ve been fun. The puzzles on offer aren’t bad or anything, they’re just too easy, with each puzzle relying on, again, either the bird Twig or the lighthouse’s light, which can be shown brighter than usual, allowing for the clearing of certain elements and highlighting of select objects to activate ledges or switches for Twig to interact with. Nothing too fancy or complex, though there is a jumping puzzle later in the game that was frustrating due to the camera placement, but there were also some puzzles that were unique and fun to do. For example, there’s one puzzle where you have to mess with the passage of time to access certain areas and this was one of the coolest ideas I’ve seen and one that actually stumped me at parts. It also led to a very cute moment and catchy instrumental that I admittedly was kinda disappointed when the tune ended.

Speaking of Twig, the puzzles where you take full control of the bird do range in quality. I feel the worst puzzles were the ones where you have to twirl your left stick to move an object and, I don’t know if I was just doing it wrong or there was a delay, but no matter how slow or fast I twirled said stick? It took, what felt like, an hour or so before I even made any progress. Now, the ones where you move a lever from one end to another with Twig are fine and the aforementioned time puzzle was a novel idea, it’s just the stuff with the stick whirling that did slightly soured the puzzle aspect of the game for me. In fact, that was most of the game for the first two hours or so; walking and doing some puzzles to progress. That is, until I hit a certain point in the game where the gameplay suddenly switched up on me and the puzzles became more creative, save for a few remaining stick twirling puzzles. It was here when the game went from being an OK walking simulator to being an “OK, this is awesome”-type game. Like, I never played a game that flipped genres in such a way that Keeper did and pulled it off successfully. Sure, there’s games where they combine genres, like Double Fine’s own Brutal Legend, but I don’t think I’ve played a game that starts as one genre then pivots to a completely different genre for the last act of the game. Yes, it does go back to a walking simulator for the final few moments of the game, but that section where it’s not felt very refreshing and, honestly, was some of the most fun I’ve had in a game in a while. That’s not to say the rest of the game wasn’t fun, don’t misunderstand me. The game, on a whole, is fun. I just felt this section of the game was where it kinda just clicked for me more then the other sections.

The word I’d use to sum up Keeper would be ‘Experience’. It’s not a game you boot up to become the mightiest warrior of the galaxy or to slay the legions of the damned with weapons granted to you by the powers that be. No, this is a game to turn on when you want to escape reality and enter a world unlike anything you've ever seen and feels frightening, yet, at the same time, welcoming as well. While I know Walking Simulators aren’t for everyone and the introduction may turn you off from continuing, I would implore you to give this game a shot and just stick with it. The 1920 theologian Lynn H. Hough said that life is a journey and not a destination and I feel that quote best describes this game in a nutshell. Plus, I don’t know of any other game where you play as a living lighthouse.

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A couple of months ago, Elestrals Clash entered Early Acess on Steam. In the time since, it’s received a few updates and a public statement. New cards have been added, and the team behind it have already started on adding a revamped tutorial, new features and more. The Elestrals train keeps chugging and isn’t stopping anytime soon either. While Clash gets much needed improvements, creator aDrive has been sharing bits of footage of his latest project over on his socials.

Elestrals Awakened is the next frontier for Elestrals. A monster taming rpg inspired by classic games and brimming with Ancient Greek flavor. And aDrive isn’t the only one working on it, he’s also teamed up with fellow content creator and poketuber, ShadyPenguinn to bring it to life. This 2.5D pixel art adventure is one you don’t want to miss and promises to be a great time. All they need is you! If this is a project you think you'd be interested in supporting, Elestrals Awakened has arrived on Kickstarter as of October 14th. This is a wonderful opportunity to back a passion project, especially if you're a fan of the card game or if you just like monster tamers in general. Be sure to follow for updates and who knows? We may even discover new Elestrals along the way!

I know I’ll be keeping an eye on it and following along. The various screenshots and video clips look incredible and I’m super stoked to see where it all goes. Be sure to follow aDrive and Elestrals on social media for more updates regarding the TCG, Clash, Awakened and more!

Wolves, foxes, dragons, dogs, cats – these are the most common species in the furry fandom, and so they get the bulk of the attention when it comes to jokes, memes, and stereotypes. But what about some of the lesser-known critters in this fandom?

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• Patreon: Inflammatus – The Tudor Consort, Creative Commons 2019
• Closing: Cloud Fields (RetroSpecterChill Remix), USA: Unpublished, 2018. ©2011-2018 Fur What It’s Worth. Based on Fredrik Miller – Cloud Fields (Chill Out Mix). USA: Bandcamp, 2011. ©2011 Fur What It’s Worth

S12E1 – Uncommon Species in the Fandom - Wolves, foxes, dragons, dogs, cats - these are the most common species in the furry fandom, and so they get the bulk of the attention when it comes to jokes, memes, and stereotypes. But what about some of the lesse

Thanks to Animation World Network we learned about The Last Dodo, a CGI adventure comedy film that’s just going into production. It comes to us from Studio 100, the same folks who brought us The Amazing Maurice animated film a couple years ago. “The feature, co-produced by Cheeky Little Media and Cantilever Media, is set in 1628 London and follows Dave the Dodo, the last of his kind. With the help of the streetwise rat Eggy, he must overcome his fear of flying to survive. The co-production is led by Patrick Egerton, Andrew Baker, and Carys Rowan. Jun Falkenstein directs from a script by Simon Dodd and Tristan Dodd.” No word yet on who’s in the cast, but it’s already set for release in 2027.  Here’s hoping that includes North America!

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It's Steam Next Fest time here at Gaming Furever! That means it's time for us to scour the huge gamut of upcoming games to find every one featuring all types of fur, scales, feathers, and animal features! Every game that we could find that featured an anthropomorphic character, or featured animals as a focus is on this list. Yes, we went through all 2800+ games to get to this list of 280+ games. 

We have an actively updated Furry & Animal Games List over at @GamingFurever on Twitter and  another List over @GamingFurever on Bluesky that you can follow and get constant updates for lots of indie titles with TONS of lovely furry characters! If you're a developer of any of these games, feel free to hit us up on email over on our Contact Us page! We'd love to talk to you about your development!

Previous Steam Next Fest Articles: June 2025 | February 2025 | October 2024 | June 2024

Here's your October 2025 Steam Next Fest list (in alphabetical order):

TigerTails Radio Season 16 Episode 38 Join the Discord Chat: https://discord.gg/SQ5QuRf Join the Telegram Chat: https://t.me/+yold2C77m0I1MmM0 Visit the website at http://www.tigertailsradio.co.uk. See website for full breakdown of any song credits, which is usually updated shortly after the show. Credits: Opening music: Magic by Hedge Haiden (Double Hedge Studios) Character art: Fitzroy Fox - https://www.furaffinity.net/user/lunara-toons / https://bsky.app/profile/fitzroyfox.bsky.social Background art: Charleston Rat - https://www.furaffinity.net/user/charlestonrat / https://bsky.app/profile/charlestonrat.bsky.social If you like what we do and wish to throw some pennies our way to support us, please consider sending a little tip our way. https://streamlabs.com/tigertailsradio/tip * Please note, tips are made to support TigerTails Radio and are assumed as made with good faith, so are therefore non-refundable. Thank you for your support and understanding.

Welcome to "Fresh Fur!" Our bi-weekly installment going over the newest game releases, and which ones you can expect to find anthros/furries in!

Check the list below for all the games we could find with animal/anthro influences and characters.

Major New Releases for the Weeks of September 14-30, 2025:

• Lego Voyagers (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC) - September 15
• Skate early access (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC) - September 16
• Ale Abbey (PC) - September 17
• Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor (PC) - September 17
• Strange Antiquities (Switch, PC) - September 17
• Arctic Awakening (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC) - September 18
• Class Of Heroes 3 Remaster (PS5, Switch, PC) - September 18
• Cultic: Chapter Two (PC) - September 18
• Easy Delivery Co. (PC) - September 18
• Emotionless: The Last Ticket (PC) - September 18
• Hyke: Northern Light(s) (PS5, Switch, PC) - September 18
• Mai: Child of Ages (PC) - September 18
• Wobbly Life (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, PC) - September 18
• Dying Light: The Beast (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC) - September 19
• Eclipsium (PC) - September 19
• Marisa of Liartop Mountain (Switch, PC) - September 19
• Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, PC) - September 19
• Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter (PS5, Switch, PC) - September 19
• Kingdom of Cards (PC) - September 22
• Baby Steps (PS5, PC) - September 23
• Blippo+ (Switch, PC) - September 23
• Slime Rancher 2 (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC) - September 23
  
• Twinkleby (PC) - September 23
  
• Dragon Song Tavern (PC) - September 24
• Death on the Nile (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, PC) - September 25
• Hades 2 (Switch 2, Switch, PC) - September 25
• Silent Hill f (PS5, PC) - September 25
• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch, PC) - September 25
• Sworn (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, PC) - September 25
• CloverPit (PC) - September 26
• EA Sports FC 26 (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch, PC) - September 26
• Hotel Barcelona (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC) - September 26
• NBA Bounce (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC) - September 26
• Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch 2, Switch, PC) - September 26
• Mind Diver (PC) - September 28
• Bouncemasters (PC) - September 29
• Unyielder (PC) - September 29
• Lego Party (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch, PC) - September 30
• Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, Switch, PC) - September 30
• Nicktoons & The Dice Of Destiny (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, PC) - September 30

*Bolded games have furry/animal influences/characters

Furry & Animal Steam Game Finds:

These games were found in the New Releases section of Steam this week and will be updated as more come out throughout the week!

Real life is turned into adult animation in Kevin, a new series in development for Prime Video. The showrunner is Joe Wengert, who’s also writing the series along with executive producer Aubrey Plaza. “Loosely inspired by a real-life break-up and the cat who was caught in the middle, Kevin is all about finding where you belong in the world. After the unexpected break-up of his human ‘owners’, Kevin moves into a local pet rescue in Astoria, Queens where a chaotic band of misfit animals will help him to figure out what he really wants out of life. The series stars Jason Schwartzman (Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch) as Kevin, a housecat who decides to try life without people, and Aubrey Plaza herself (The White Lotus, Emily the Criminal) as Dana, one half of a human couple who he leaves behind.” No word yet on when it’s set to premier, but there’s more information about the show at Animation World Network.

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Welcome to another episode of BFFT! All the regular features are here this episode. Taebyn, Rayne, TickTock, Cheetaro and Ziggy are all here! Taebyn has another sound book to read. Cheetaro reviews the Paddington movie. TickTock brings us some furry news. Bearly highlights the upcoming events, and we are joined by Grubbs Grizzly to tell us the winners of the Good Furry Awards. All in all it is a fun filled episode. So,if you have nothing to do for about 90 minutes, why not tune in for another T-Riffic (that is Taebyn-Riffic) episode of BFFT! Moobarkfluff everyfur!

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Listen up! Cartoon Brew just broke the news that Rebecca Sugar, creator and show-runner of the iconic Steven Universe TV series, is set to direct an upcoming animated feature film based on the world-famous Moomin comics created by Finnish author and artist Tove Jansson. The Moomin trolls and their friends have been adapted for animation numerous times over the decades, but this will be the first production created in the U.S.A. It’s all thanks to Annapurna Animation — yes, the very folks who rescued Nimona and finally brought it to Netflix. (More interesting news: Annapurna’s also hard at work on an animated adaptation of the feline video game Stray. We’ll be following that story too!) Nothing yet on the plot or voice actors, but word is that the filmmakers hope to finish in 2027.

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TigerTails Radio Season 16 Episode 37 Join the Discord Chat: https://discord.gg/SQ5QuRf Join the Telegram Chat: https://t.me/+yold2C77m0I1MmM0 Visit the website at http://www.tigertailsradio.co.uk. See website for full breakdown of any song credits, which is usually updated shortly after the show. Credits: Opening music: Magic by Hedge Haiden (Double Hedge Studios) Character art: Fitzroy Fox - https://www.furaffinity.net/user/lunara-toons / https://bsky.app/profile/fitzroyfox.bsky.social Background art: Charleston Rat - https://www.furaffinity.net/user/charlestonrat / https://bsky.app/profile/charlestonrat.bsky.social If you like what we do and wish to throw some pennies our way to support us, please consider sending a little tip our way. https://streamlabs.com/tigertailsradio/tip * Please note, tips are made to support TigerTails Radio and are assumed as made with good faith, so are therefore non-refundable. Thank you for your support and understanding.

If you’ve been meaning to grab this year’s furry book bundle, remember that it’s only available through Oct. 31. We’re already a week into the month, so don’t delay!

You have a choice between the SFW only books (8 in all) or the complete bundle of 13 books, SFW and NSFW both included.

The lineup is stellar! Here are the table of contents for the bundles:

SFW:
A Lion Among Mice by David Hardie
Titanblood by Troy Alexander Squires
A Portrait For Tomorrow by Raynarde
Winterfall by Lauren Rivers
A Chronicle of Lies – Part 1: The Dark Sculptor by Abraham Carson (MekanipTheWriter)
Book 1 of the Tori Mysteries: Reaper’s Lottery by Gre7g Luterman
The Rewilding by Jako Malan (aka. Erdbok)
The Bones Behind the Glass by Renard Avec-Histoire

NSFW:
Harmony by Flash Kitterson
Idumea by Madison Rye Progress
My Remise by Koda Copeland
Two Souls of Fangcrest Manor by Domus Vocis and Fruitz
You Look Lost, Pup by Rob MacWolf

While you’re at it, don’t forget about the FWG anthology released earlier this year through Fenris Publishing! You have three options for the anthology: the print and ebook bundle, the paperback only, or the PDF only.

Here’s the full table of contents for the anthology:

“Don’t Be Late” by Renee Carter Hall
“The Prince and the Mage” by Chase Anderson
“Theodore Has a Boyfriend Now” by Cardigan
“Marek’s Run” by Sky McKinnon
“Unbreakable Bonds” by Ty Fox
“Snowshoes” by A. Kita and Aldous Husky
“Brewed Out of Blood” by Rob MacWolf
“The Casket of Brent Lyles” by Pip the Badger
“A Below-Ground Sort of Animal” by Frances Pauli
“Small Business” by Juan C. Moreno
“System Damage” by Bast Andrews
“The Guild” by J.S. Hawthorne

Happy furry book month, and happy reading!

韩国兽装 KPOP 表演团体 BASTTIE 将于 2025 年 10 月 13 日发布出道单曲《First Step》

I’ve been a fan of the Fire Emblem franchise for quite a while now. I got into the series thanks to Sacred Stones and like many, fell back in love with it thanks to Awakening. I’ve been following it ever since so imagine my surprise when I check social media and find out that a new mobile game just released with little to no warning.

As we have noted before, Jay Hosler is a biology professor with a special interest in bugs — or more precisely, insects. And they like to channel that interest into writing and illustrating full-color graphic novels for young readers — like their most recent creation, Ant Story. “Meet Rubi, a tiny ant with a big personality and an even bigger love for stories. Who knew the small world of her colony could be full of unexpected friendships, epic adventures, and death-defying escapes? Follow Rubi on the journey of a lifetime as she uncovers the mystery and wonder of one of the world’s tiniest, mightiest insects.” Look for it now from Harper Collins.

image c. 2025 Harper Collins Publishers