Shoes on furries?

[Furrball]

I'm cool with shoe-wearing furs and furs without shoes. Both have their pros and cons. 

[Uruvion]

Bare paws for me! ;

[RiverTheKitty]

Mmm...... I believe River's claws would rip through her shoes, and even if they didn't, I imagine it'd be quite painful to jam them into one. I think it depends on the sona themselves 

[George]

I think it depends on the sona themselves 

Depends on the shoes, too!

[Serana]

I personally prefer my anthros more human so they wear clothes and occasionally shoes. Despite my human preference, I like my anthros with digitigrade feet because I hate drawing plantigrade unless their wearing high heels
I actually have a way of drawing a "shoe" on digitigrade feet, but I prefer just having them wear stockings or somthing >w<
Either way I really don't think its weird unless the character is more animal than human and even then its personal preference^^

[FinnegansWake]

I definitely see myself as barefoot when I am my fursona, for a lot of reasons you said and also because I like the feel of not having to necessarily conform to societal "musts" like clothes (maybe it is my lust for the freedom of human societal bonds of an animal like a wolf  ). I think it all comes down to preference, though, as I've seen furs with and without shoes   also, some furs have more human--like feet and toes, but my fursona has canine feet and toes, so it also goes with design as well and really how much of a 'human' is in your animal, if that makes sense   

[Alice stormwater]

Oh god yes barefooted. [removed content]

[Peanut B. Rawket]

Uhh...



But shoes are nice, not sure how they look on a fursuit though... (Probably pretty silly )

[Remo The Sponge Guppy]

I'll say it's a bit odd to see furries with shoes, but I guess it depends on how it's done. Some look better with them while others look better without them. As far as practically, furries wouldn't really need them.

Well like I said, depends on species. Rabbits don't have footpads, after all they don't walk on pavement every day. Some sort of foot protection would be necessary.

[The Past]

I imagine furries wearing shoes or not depends on what they do. With my furry characters, their feet are pretty rugged and are usually barefoot unless doing an activity which is safer with protection on their feet, such as construction, mining, experimenting in a chemical lab, stuff like that. Naturally, people like to make things less stressful on themselves if possible, so I feel it would make sense for furries to wear shoes if they feel it's more comfy and helpful.

[Alice stormwater]

I imagine furries wearing shoes or not depends on what they do. With my furry characters, their feet are pretty rugged and are usually barefoot unless doing an activity which is safer with protection on their feet, such as construction, mining, experimenting in a chemical lab, stuff like that. Naturally, people like to make things less stressful on themselves if possible, so I feel it would make sense for furries to wear shoes if they feel it's more comfy and helpful.

Too me you would have too look at the foot first is it more human like or more animal like. Becuse the way I see anthro putting shoes on them would just be extremely uncomfortable like wearing a tie it would be more for dressy occasions.

[DarkHound]

i feel it depends on the Furry wearing them. Bare paws for me as i am a wolf and i cant see anything to fit my paws in. and because i have pads on the bottoms of my feet-er...PAWS...i dont need them. i have fur to keep my toesies warm. aside from having EXTREMELY ticklish paws, theres no need for me to wear them. but i guess for others if they are more anthro (im pure wolf) then they may have normal human feet, but if they do have paws maybe they dont have the pads like some so...maybe they do. just simply a personal thing. on top of that, maybe furries just think shoes would look cool on them

[The Past]

In a furry world I imagine they would design shoes that are shaped to fit various types of feet, not standard human feet.

Since furries can be so varied, they'd likely need custom shoes much of the time. That can be expensive. Maybe that's why most go barefoot!

[George]

In a furry world I imagine they would design shoes that are shaped to fit various types of feet, not standard human feet.

Since furries can be so varied, they'd likely need custom shoes much of the time. That can be expensive. Maybe that's why most go barefoot!

Finally, someone acknowledges that shoes are made for feet, not feet needing to be a certain way to fit shoes.

[DarkHound]

yeah really