How did YOU become furry? =)

[Obey138 (Matthew "Fluffy")]

I was searching for an anime to watch and I accidently found some drawings with anthropomorphic animals. They attracted me (I don't think it is a good word to describe it, my knowledge of English is kind of bad) and I began searching for more. The more I looked the more I liked it. I found some intel about the fandom and thought "That's it, I'm in". (also maybe that's why I liked Ratchet & Crank series so much )

[sketchyVagrant]

It all started with anime characters who had animal attributes. I'm looking at you, InuYasha and Kouga!!!

I've kind of gotten more and more into it from there, gradual like. A friend who was a major furry, reallllly got me into it about... A year ago? And now here I am.

[Sabren.the.tiger]

It's been so long now that I don't even remember.....  I think it all started with anime..  yes, Yes! I was just about 15 maybe and had been watching death note and obviously any 15 year old with Internet access is going to be on looking for bad pictures of light and l so cute! But anyway I stumbled upon *removed*  this section called furry well the curiosity didn't kill the cat it created it Haha but after I learned more about the fandome *removed* I made friends with other furs and here I am now 4 years later!!

[vantaskarkat811]

I found the fandom just a couple years ago, but I've always had a broad liking for all animals. When I was about four years old, I was convinced I was a werewolf, I behaved much like a wolf as well. But then again, I was only four years old. I didn't know any better. But yeah, that's how I became a furry.

[cutiebat]

I've always known about the fandom, but decided to research it more and I realized I really liked it and wanted to be a part of it!

[Crest Is Dead ((For Now))]

My friend told me about (name is archer on here if you wanna know) and said to search it up. I did and looked at some of the stuff and thought 'wow that's real good and creative ' then I looked at the other stuff and vomited (I can no longer watch looney tunes the same way) but I did like the clean stuff and it fascinated me so he tolde about this page bada bing bada boom I'm a furry.

[Jane]

I've generally liked foxes all of my life, and I love drawing and such. Before it never really peaked my interest until I was more fully introduced to it. To be honest it shocked me quite a bit but at the same time amazed me. I wanted to put forth my love of foxes into a character and that's how it happened.

[Renefrade]

I never was one permanently. But i am starting to feel it. A feral fox all furry and getting food and chewing.

[Karric]

i just kind of accidentally found out about it i saw the website furry fandom looked at it and i taught that it would be fun as i have always felt very close to animals so i decided why not and hear i am now

[Helenor]

Someone sent me a card with a fox furry on it, and one thing led to another and here I am

[Kai]

When I was in 7th grade (yeah, yeah, I know) I saw it online and because I didn't really have any sort of internet presence then like I do now, I didn't really know where to start. Hell, I didn't even know what a fursona was. All I knew was I liked fursuits, and I liked the art, and I wanted to be a furry.


Then, because I was a 7th grader and had the attention span of a concussed goldfish, I just sort of forgot about it.


Skip forward to 9th grade, where I was technically part of "that group" of kids (weeaboos, mostly) mainly because I had nowhere else to go. I figured out how to do a couple google searches and landed on furaffinity and other sites like that, and got pretty much hooked considering I didn't really talk to anyone in real life.
Ironically, I think a lot of my experiences in being on the same IRC channel for 4 years actually helped me a lot with my social skills, which is why I have a busy enough social life now to the point that it's almost stressful. (Also, most of my r/l friends are furries, although we didn't meet on that basis.)


Which I guess explains how I got into being and why I continue to be a furry.

[Echo]

Two words: Lapfox Trax. I listened to their music and went on a magical adventure of finding out what a furry was, this happened about three years ago listening to It gets better. Didn't even understand the lyrics at the time but I didn't care, about a month or two of training myself to draw I created my first fursona. Things spiraled from there and the details are fuzzy but I know that the journey has been a great one and I will continue on this path.

[Kyarex]

dragons, dinosaurs and reptiles are my favorite things, i guess it just came naturally when i discovered it was a thing.

[Drakeyboy]

i think how it started for me is when i was five to eight years old i had a imaginary fried based off of fox McCloud from starfox. soon after i knew about sonic the hedgehog and loved his games too. then around ten or twelve me and my brother started to rp mainly useing sonic characters. soon after i made my first anthro which was a dragon without knowing what they were. when i was fifteen i went back to foxes and found furry art (non-yiff) two years later and actually was a little exited that there were others like me and i have been one ever since.

[Ryan B]

Well, I first became interested in the idea of anthropomorphic characters back when I played Ratchet & Clank, even though at the time I had no idea what a furry was or what the word anthropomorphic meant I became really interested in the idea of human like animals. So about 8 years later I have invested months of hours of my life into the internet when I came upon the word "Furry". I had no idea what it meant except someone in the server I was playing was insulting and hating on a furry calling him a furfag and an animal molester. Even though I had no idea what he was hating on I stood up for the furry and told the guy to stop attacking someone you don't know and just stop being a general (Censored), the hater soon logged off. I soon did some research and found out what a "Furry" was. At first I thought who would be so interested into human like animals to make themselves a fursona and even sometimes walk around in a fur suit. But fast forward a few months I all of a sudden fall in love with the idea and look for a forum to express how I feel. Now I am here.