are furries able to trasform? could they be using those horrible costumes to be honest about what they really are? some people want to knmow this information. i my self am a furry but this topic was really big at my other forum. heres the arguement...
we know werewolves could exist why not other things like were bears, bores and cats?
i myself do not believe this but if you have any replies i would love to here them.

No, furries are just humans who either feel a connection with a specific animal, or want to be an animal. As I myself am not a furry, I probably got it wrong, and I'll leave it to our actual furry members.

Sibyll, you say you are a furry, wouldn't you know if you were able to transform?

sure, im a normal furry but i have heard rumors about furries that have actually transformed. i was just looking for some one else who has heard that rumor.

Oh, I see. Well I hope you find some information then.

Oh, that made my day. I'm going to put this bluntly, and I'm not trying to be mean:

No human can transform into anything they aren't. Some people can twist themselves up pretty well, but that's about it. Being able to transform into an animal is the stuff of myths and nothing more. Sorry for that, but we have as much proof of these transforming people as we do of flying molemen on Jupiter: None at all.

i have never heard of furries

*is a furrie herself* ._.

really, what is a furrie...in depth
what kind are u (if there are kinds)

I...sorta...I'm a fox on the inside? *sweatdrop*

me, im a wolf, and you mis understood me i do not agree that humans can transform at all either im just trying to figure out who started this rumor.

Oh. My. God. You mean there are actually furries? You guys are real? I mean, what's the attraction here? I don't understand.

*edits self so as not to sound mean*

Oh, and I highly doubt that there area any of you folks that can actually transform.

WHAT are furries!

Are they people who feel a special kinship and bond with a particular animal? A much more than usual bond?

People that think they are an animla trapped in a human body?

What?

Source: Wikipedia

A furry lifestyler is generally considered to be a person who meets one or more of these requirements:

Integrating a perceived animal nature into one's persona (gait, use of voice, personality, instincts, et multiple cetera)
Totemistic beliefs, specifically with regard to animal spirits.
A belief that animal instincts exist within humans, regardless of whether they are separate, immaterial spirits, part of the genetic code, caused by reincarnation from a previous animal life, or anything else.

A furry lifestyler may also take on physical attributes of an animal, although this is rare. Such attributes may be: hair style (including facial hair), tattoos, articles of clothing (e.g. a tail or ears), or jewelry. In a few extreme cases, some wealthy lifestylers have used elective surgery to affect a physical transformation.

Furry lifestylers generally refer to themselves as furries or furs, although this term is not exclusive to them. Also, some people who might reasonably call themselves furry lifestylers choose not to do so for various reasons, including a desire not to be associated with the term. (For example, a related community, the "were" or "therian" community, shares similar beliefs with the furry lifestylers but wishes to distance themselves from the furry fandom.)

Some furry lifestylers have a general dysmorphia, a strong, deeply rooted feeling that they are not in the right body. A few furries have gone so far as to use the term Species Dysmorphic Disorder, a neologism that puns on body dysmorphic disorder, though the simpler "species dysmorphia" is a slightly more common phrase. These seem to indicate a disassociation with the psychological identity of the public at large

There are, other, things that I've heard that furries do that are wrong, wrong wrong.

I really like the assumption you make to base your argument on; "we know werewolves could exist..."

Huh? I for one don't know nor believe they could exist.

Hmm sounds a lot similar to the vikings and other shamanistic cultures. Wearing the skins into battle to gain the stregnth of that particular animal and going berzerk while fighting and such. As for actual shifting, i've never seen it. Maybe it's just a temperary spiritual shift? Dun dun dun....

So a furrie is like that guy who has tattooed all his body like a leopard.

*No comment*

Ouch! that could not of been painless. They had that idiot on SciFi. But I had to change the channel. My brain cells started leaking from my ears.


Lapi'che

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Source: Wikipedia

[quote]A furry lifestyler is generally considered to be a person who meets one or more of these requirements:...[/quote]




Oh Goddess!! I am so out of the loop. I have apparently led a very sheltered life.

I gather that Furries are different than Plushies?

There are two types of furries...good ones like me, and the freaks. The freaks are the ones that parade around in fursuits, humping each other, and other stuff. =X Unfortunatly they get the most publicity so people assume all furries are like that.

He lives up near me.

So furries are people who feel that they are animals on the inside?

Yeah...pretty much...

I've had people tell me I have the soul of a fox...

Theres no such thing as right or wrong...its a human thing.

Well, then to some extent I would consider myself a furry.
I've had visions of my inner self and they were of some animal. I couldn't tell what it was. Plus, one of my goals in life is to live in the wilderness for a few years just living off the land.

I became a furry because of the feelings i got from having the dreams, you know the ones, for me i was walking in my old house that we had just moved from but the intereor was that of a forest and a giant rock in the middle of the living room i sat on it and heard all the wolves that were walking around me.
that was the coolest wolf dream i ever had.

Like any subset of humanity, Furries have fallen victim to stereotypes. Stereotypes exist because that particular specimen of the subgroup stood in someone's mind and so people have a tendency to notice the stereotype. I've been to one furry convention and I plan on attending another in late November. There were a lot of people in various costumes. And a lots of people not in costume. A fun friendly crowd. There weer seminars on a variety of subjucts. Some silly, some serious. Furries are just people who have a non-mainstream hobby. And considering the popularity of Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse, that surprises me.

And people associating themselves with animals is not new. How long have we used animals to describe people: Sly as fox, strong as an ox, doing it like rabbits, etc.

HEY EV'RYBODY

"I really like the assumption you make to base your argument on; "we know werewolves could exist..."

Huh? I for one don't know nor believe they could exist."

Werewolves exist-- it was in a _NEWSPAPER_ near me in 1997 that _six foot tall wolves that stood on their hind legs_ were _getting hit by cars_.

Anyway, it's quite possible for people to transform into animal-like beings, simply by summoning a demon of some sort, but, as for people who can actually do this, they're call 'were-folk'.

If you've read Gold Digger, you know what I'm talking about.

As for REAL cases of were-folk, the only thing I can prove and verify are were-wolves, and to some extent were-cats.


NOW: ABOUT FURRIES


Four types of furries.

1.) They like the idea of anthropomorphic characters, draw them, try to be like them, may make a fursuit and wear it to conventions.

2.) Wears the fursuit all the time, may have sex in the fursuit-- all the time.

3.) Bestiality-buff in disguise. WATCH OUT.

4.) Were-wolves and other things.

Well you'd think the rest of the world would know of this.

The newspaper wasn't Weekly World News, by any chance?

No, it was in the Buffalo Grove, Illinois newspaper.

LLOOOOL! Are you sure it wasn't Eerie, Indiana.....

Lapi'che

Nope, Buffalo Grove. The newspaper should be on microfiche.

The nearby town of Harvard reported werewolves in 1954, as well.

And all accounts appeared in newspapers.