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Furry Chat => General => Topic started by: NJMike on July 19, 2011, 07:04:49 PM
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Do you know any furries in real life? How did you meat them? Are they on any furry community sites such as Fur Affinity (Forums)? Do they have a fursona? Anything else you want to add.
I only know one furry in real life, and that is my best friend Walter from high school.
I met him in 2008 in 11th grade. He was over at my lunch table one day talking to one of my friends, and I saw him wearing a Legend of Zelda medallion. I asked him about it, then we started talking about video games and stuff, and our friendship just kept building up from there.
One day a few years later when I was on his FaceBook I saw an NSFW picture of a female rabbit in his photos, and I told him the next day about it because I was sure it was an accident, surely it was and he removed it when he got home. I never knew about furries until after I graduated high school June 23rd, 2010, so having more knowledge on furs, I asked him about it over a YouTube private message one day a few months ago after remembering that picture I saw saying "Hey Walter, are you a furry?" and he responded "y yes i am". I was really happy finding this out.
He does not have a fursona but he said he would want to be a fox/cat/dragon hybrid or just a plain fox, and I also got him to sign up on FA, but he forgot his login information for it.
So, he's my only real life furry friend currently. I would love to meet more furs, but I live a very non-social life; it's strictly on the internet only, so chances of this happening are probably very slim.
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None yet, but with my being nearby to several furry cons, I think it's pretty likely I'll get to know someone :D
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One moved away across the country before I realized I also was a furry, and the other one is my ex-boyfriend who became a furry during the time the painful breakup process was slowly going on. He was cheating on me. Lucky me, eh? So technically I know, or knew, 2. But there are none I can hang out with. Unfortunately where I live (Arkansas) happens to be the most furry-deserted place in the United States. The closest regular con I know of is in Texas.
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In Germany it seems to be a lot easier to meet other Furries. I know really a lot Furs in Real Life. Maybe it is because I visit Conventions regularly. Like for example Eurofurence or Mephit Mini Con. I plan to visit ConFuzzled next year too. Then there are a lot smaller cons or better meetings every month. I even organize such meetings on my own, like a meetings of drawing Furs next week for a little creative round or Fursuitwalks. Every month there is a meeting of Furs which go out for Dinner in a town near by. We are always around 10~ people then. My best friend is a Fur and some other very close friends are Furs too.
I am a very social person and love to meet new persons so I travel a lot and invite a lot :)
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I've met 3 that I know are more or less furries.
First one I met on a local furry forum, he lives in the same city as me, tho we only met once. As far as I know, he isn't exactly a furry anymore tho, at the time we met he was a wolf I believe, but now he's a neko I believe.
Second one is my ex which I met on here, he lives about 2-3 hours from me. Yet, he isn't a furry either, he used to be an otter, but now he's kinda just a "regular" human with a, to some degree, interest in the fandom and as well a few friends that are furries.
And the third, most recent one is a Lynx that lives in the same city as me as well. Yet we only met once.
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I've seen a few on campus, but whenever I do see them my friends are near me, and they being 4chan fanatics makes them quite anti-furry, so I never get the chance to approach them.
The only reason my friends don't hark on me is because I'm quite in the closet about it myself.
(http://www.thefurryforum.com/forums/Smileys/Cagon/sad.gif)
Maybe someday I'll get the courage to say a little hi.
(http://www.thefurryforum.com/forums/Smileys/Cagon/laugh.gif)
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Nope... none yet. To be honest, I think I'm the only one where I live... :'(
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I know OF furs that live around where I do, its just that I've never visited them.
Maryland seems to be pretty tolerant of most types of people. :)
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I know OF furs that live around where I do, its just that I've never visited them.
Maryland seems to be pretty tolerant of most types of people. :)
I have found a furry on Pounced.com that lives in the same area as my step-brother does, meaning this guy is only about 10 minutes or so away from me. I messaged him on FA about it and we thought it was cool.
I've seen a few on campus, but whenever I do see them my friends are near me, and they being 4chan fanatics makes them quite anti-furry, so I never get the chance to approach them.
The only reason my friends don't hark on me is because I'm quite in the closet about it myself.
(http://www.thefurryforum.com/forums/Smileys/Cagon/sad.gif)
Maybe someday I'll get the courage to say a little hi.
(http://www.thefurryforum.com/forums/Smileys/Cagon/laugh.gif)
Haha damn that must suck. I'd hate that so much. My step-brother is one of the 4chan anti-furs, so I always stayed closeted around him knowing how much he thought they were "weird" and "eww", but eventually he found out by seeing my Skype avatar which was my SL furry avatar picture, he asked me about "why is your avatar an animal?", I told him I was a furry, and as I prepared for the worst, surprisingly he didn't blow up he just responded "yeah I figured" "I never understood why people liked those things". Now he's even been on Second Life hanging around with me and my furry friends and even has a black/red fox fursuit of his own in the game. So like I don't get why he's suddenly ok with it all now after finding out that I am one knowing how much he used to dislike them.
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huge groups of us at my high school though I really don't hang out with them that much. I'm pretty good friends with a few of them ^_^
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huge groups of us at my high school though I really don't hang out with them that much. I'm pretty good friends with a few of them ^_^
Lucky!! You must live in a big city or something.
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huge groups of us at my high school though I really don't hang out with them that much. I'm pretty good friends with a few of them ^_^
Lucky!! You must live in a big city or something.
I'm only about twenty minutes away from Denver so yeah we get furs from all over :D
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On wikifur, and just got reminded that the Funday Pawpet show is in Orlando, not far from here. I could meet those guys, and if I can finish my suit quick enough, well :3
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I've met some totally at random, but I don't know any personally.
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I don't know any in real life though my bestfriend(just moved away) takes a interest in them. I've tried looking up to see if there are any meetings in TN around my location, none. =(
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I don't know about cons though; they seem all well and good if you know someone to hang out with, but if you don't really have any friends, what do you do there? I've never been to one, may have some interest in going though.
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i dont know any furries in RL yet, maybe meet one eventually at scholl some time...
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I don't know about cons though; they seem all well and good if you know someone to hang out with, but if you don't really have any friends, what do you do there? I've never been to one, may have some interest in going though.
If you have no friends there, make friends. Strike a conversation, chat and stuff, likely the guy will become your friend.
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I don't know any furs in real life, but I know a couple in my city and know of some others that I don't actually know at all. Then I know some from the capital city not far from me. I kinda plan to meet one ofthode furrows soon if we end up talking :)
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I think Ontario is the breeding ground of all furries. o.o' I know probably around a hundred furries. All my friends except one are furries, my partner is a furry (found out after a met him) and one of my two childhood friends is a furry.
I always got confused when people said they hadn't met any because they're practically everywhere here.
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I always got confused when people said they hadn't met any because they're practically everywhere here.
Just depends on how social they are, like me for instance; I'm extremely non-social in real life, so I know absolutely no one lol.
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My mate is the only furry I know, and he became furry after I told him about it.
I do have a friend who acts a lot like a furry but doesn't actually claim to be one herself. So she's cool with the furry stuff, but it's not exactly the same.
It's alright though. I like hanging out with non-furries too.
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I don't know any in real life actually. I have a friend who likes them and asks me to send him pictures of them to his phone sometimes. But he's not a self proclaimed furry I guess. Other than that I don't know ANY furries at all in real life.
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Too many of them. Get them away! D:
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Too many of them. Get them away! D:
I'll take em, poke em into a box and mail em to me!!! *needs furfriends*
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i know some furs in rl ive meet most of them throught the internet, and some through friends
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My friend recently became a furry but we haven't had time to just chill and be furry :(
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i know plenty of furs from my city. we have local meets every 6 weeks so as not to collide with the london fur meets which a few of us go to as well. the facebook page lists 28 cambridge furs, but i'm certain that i've met more than that in my time here. i would strongly advise trying to find a local furs mailing list for anyone who wants to find furs in your area, cause if you live in a place where lots of people gather (with internet of course) then furries won't be far away.
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ive used ontario furs and furries to meet furs, try looking for websites that have to do with where you live.
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My state has a huge community of furries, but I'm only really friends with two of them. Some of the rest are pretty cool people that I just don't have much to talk to about or do with (we'll chat at the meets or online now and then), but a lot of them I just plain dislike. There's a large number of people who aren't interested in socializing outside their furry clique and teenagers who think it's cool to mess around with the grill at picnics because they're "pyromaniacs."
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i know plenty of furs from my city. we have local meets every 6 weeks so as not to collide with the london fur meets which a few of us go to as well. the facebook page lists 28 cambridge furs, but i'm certain that i've met more than that in my time here. i would strongly advise trying to find a local furs mailing list for anyone who wants to find furs in your area, cause if you live in a place where lots of people gather (with internet of course) then furries won't be far away.
London furmeets. Ahhh, I now remember the time where I actually went on the furwalk pre-banning!... granted, I can /sort of/ understand why St. Pauls would do that. :p Though, I've also found that England has a rather nice population of furries.
I'll take em, poke em into a box and mail em to me!!! *needs furfriends*
I'd totally do it. I can be the box temporarily. :D
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Oooh! Icy Wolf, where in Ontario are you? *Lives in Toronto.*
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I know many furries. Two of them are in my band and there are a handful more at school. I've known most of them for years and never knew XD .
We all hang out and have little meets of about 10 or more people. None of them really go by furry stereotypes. A lot of them are quite popular.
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Only one, and she hasn't gotten into it that much.
Michigan doesn't have many furries x3
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Only one, and she hasn't gotten into it that much.
Yeah that's like mine; he didn't even know what FurAffinity was or what a fursona was when I asked him >_>
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still havent meet any furries, even on the crusie ship i went on...
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Yes. Shinzuu and AirRaiser and SecondSelf (AR's boyfriend), mainly. I met some others at a furmeet at Denny's once though.
I think my best guy friend might be a furry though.
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still trying to fully convert a furry fan friend of mine XD
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still looking for furries, there is probably a few in my school since a few are otakus
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Oooh! Icy Wolf, where in Ontario are you? *Lives in Toronto.*
same city as you
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I know alot of furries in real life and have alot of furries who I am not as close with. I generally talk to about 3-4 in my home city, but I know alot more around england.
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I know plenty. Somewhere around six or so; apparently there are more in just my High School alone. Buster (http://www.thefurryforum.com/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=6680) is one of those furries, and another would be my friend Trevor (http://frickentrevor.deviantart.com/). There are several more I've chilled with, all at my school during lunch.
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Oooh! Icy Wolf, where in Ontario are you? *Lives in Toronto.*
:P lol same here!
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I know alot of furries in real life and have alot of furries who I am not as close with. I generally talk to about 3-4 in my home city, but I know alot more around england.
Yes, you do!... you need to get your butt over to Manchester again, like last February. >>
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I know! I was in manchester in may! but I dont think you were at that meet D:
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I was in London. :p
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I know two furries in real life, and they are... well, not exactly great people. Is it so hard just to find a furry that isn't awful in Dallas? :(