How did YOU become furry? =)

[Calun the Bat]

Probably as a direct product for my love of anime and video games growing up. I always fancied the anthropomorphic characters, like Ouka in .hack//

OMG YES. Ouka is the BEST EVER. 

Ahem... anyway, for me it was probably like many. You know, you get attached to certain anthro characters growing up, and/or have a fondness for the animal kingdom. For me the furry world in particular came when a very good friend of mine from high school became a well known furry artist. I used to watch her draw and stuff when we'd hang out at her place back in the day, and even though she's long since moved away, we're still good friends, and I give her the blame for getting me into the community proper.  And that's a good thing!

[Balareth]

well because i found felines as beautiful creatures, all of them, i love from cats to lions, i found the powerful and very majestic, i love to see how they live and how they erase their children, did you know lions pretends to feel pain when the babies bites them? is really cool and also their skin looks so soft to the touch, so i choosed felines because their beauty and life style, you cant but wonder how in the world such creature exists?

[Kogashuko]

I started out denying it and just thinking they were *funny* But when I realized I was starting to find them sexy or cute I kinda realized, that and a friend was one too so helped me realize it as well.

[Gheidren]

Well it started out in 5th grade I was searching the internet and I happened to stumble upon a picture of a wolf standing up right. I've never seen anything like that before except for in video games (that I could really care less about). But for some reason that got my attention. so I started looking up pictures like that more often then I figured out that there was a group of people who liked those. So I reaserched the fandom more, started drawing more. And eventually came up with my fursona.

[[INACTIVE]]

Alright sit down everyone, MetalGearStowe is going to read everyone a story.


It all started when I was 10, Little Metal was walking down to the mall with his father. When all of a sudden a wild group of fursuiters appeared. My little mine couldn't seem to figure out wtf was happening. "Why are their people in animal costumes?" I proceeded to make my father walk towards them with me. I asked, "Yo... wtf is this?" they responded with no hesitations, "Were furry's." After that was over we went into the mall bought some stuff then went home. I was so interested in these furry's that I went on the family PC and looked up furry's. Needless to say, I became one.

[Rocco Rex]

For me, it is more of a question of when I realized I was a furry. For most of my life, I have had dogs, and I feel much more connected with dogs then with people, and I have felt that way for years. It was two weeks ago today(wow, such a short time with so much spreading of my wings) that I went on YouTube and looked for videos explaining what furries are(even though I had never heard the term before, I just knew to search it). The first one I watched was by Majira Strawberry, and I felt joyful, free, excited, and at peace. I knew I had found a new side to myself.

Normally I don't trust anyone, I rarely speak, I am quite aggressive, kind of mean, and am pretty much a hermit, but am fiercely loyal to my family(even though I hide so much from them and they drive me nuts). Since I have found out and accepted that I am a furry I am more outgoing, nice, happy, less tense, and more easy going. I am so happy I started searching.

[KaydenQuick]

Kinda funny how I became a furry. I always liked the Pokemon games as a kid.
So somewhere around the time when I was 13 I was googling the differences in Pokemon as far as gender went.
Basically, I typed in "Charizard Sexes(The gender definition)" and google took me to a comic about a trainer continuously trying to flirt with an anthro Charizard. This led me to further explore the site, which back then was called "Kemonoart.org" and from kemonoart I went off into Deviantart, then Furaffinity, basically... I really got into the art, and later got into the people. They were all nice, friendly(Well, most of them anyways). So I developed a fursona, which changed over time and then eventually got art as an adult.

So yeah, a google translation lead me to becoming a furry, or at least discovering what furries were.

[Scorpsi]

Mein freund ist one. As a result I sorta... phased into.
Funnily enough I used to be one of those judgmental people!

[Scorpsi]

The Deutsche Sprache is strong in this one.

Too much war games...

[Silaluk]

I don't remember exactly. I still don't really consider myself a furry, since my fursona isn't anthro and I don't depict her in a universe similar to modern Earth's, but I think it was the "adult" side I liked first, to be completely honest.

[Doctor Lin]

It all started about 0-1 months ago. One day I was browsing around on the internet and I eventually come to this meme with the term "furry" in it. Me, being my curious self, started looking up what a furry was. I found out a lot about the furry fandom and was still curious about. I was interested in having a fursona, and I thought if I became a furry I would no more about furries. One thing led to an other and Tada.I'm a furry.

PS: METALGEAR YOUR STORY WAS STRANGISH

[Neurottic]

I always loved animals, and I would draw furries all the time when I was little.    I had no idea what a furry was at the time of course. When I was 11 years old I got really into sonic the hedgehog and drew sonic fan characters all the time but of course again, and again I had no idea what furries were.
But I had a friend in high school, he was a furry and he asked me to draw his fursona. I agreed and while looking up references, I discovered the furry fandom  I was interested but I never told anyone. My friend eventually moved away and I figured out that I actually liked furries. I'm 19 now and I finally decided to take the plunge, and here I am now!

[MustardHusky]

I actually used to be one of THOSE people (I'm pretty sure the furry fandom knows what I'm talking about, if they don't, I used to be one of the people who thought all furries were... um... yeah) until I saw some doco on anthrocon, and I thought "hey, this fandom doesn't seem so bad" I then discovered Majira Strawberry on YouTube and decided i wanted to become a furry.


...either that or when I was three I said that I wanted to be a dog when I grew up.

[nixon/monto]

Anthrocon dance competition videos on YouTube. I was looking up dubstep dancing a trying to learn...a little. And that's where I was like. "What's this?"

[Nori]

I always liked dragons and dolphins and such when I was younger, and my first drawing was a possessed looking dragon/dolphin hybrid that walked on two legs
When I started High School, I drew more animal-people, because I still cannot draw actual humans!
I went to my first Anime Convention, Nan Desu Kan in Denver when I was 14, and I walked into a fursuit photoshoot. And I fell in love
I looked up what fursuit was all about, and that lead my to the actual fandom it is from (though it took longer than most might think.. like a year later). Once I got the idea of it, I wanted to make a wolf, because wolves are awesome and wolf's Rain is the best anime ever. But then I watched Stelleluna and I wanted a bat instead But I already got silver/black fur for a wolf fursuit.. so its more of a silver bat.

So that turned into my first fursuit I'm almost finished with. I chose Nori as the name because it means something cool in Nordic (though I can't remember off the top of my head). But then I decided I wanted to create a character with a few different things, and I came up with Nori as she is now, an anthro canine with random feathers, saber teeth, a hippogryph tail and a set of antlers

My next suit will definitely be my current Nori, though I'm going to go with more 'cute' and make a foam head and toony eyes instead of the realistic ones