The wild animal Other

[schnee]

The following is from Marcus Baynes-Rock's Among the Bone-Eaters: Encounters with Hyenas in Harar, pp. 27-29. The author describes how he observes (for the second time) a butcher feeding hyenas, and speaks to the man about this:

Waking up in the middle of the night, I left the hotel and went to the playing field where I'd seen the food being

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[mondhasen]

Others counter that none of those who came before would've considered themselves furries. *snicker* I've read definitions of furry since I was brought to the "fandom." It's a debatable point, "what is furry?", and I just nod and try to keep silent about how I perceive It

[schnee]

It's a good question, yes. But without wanting to get too hung-up on details, I personally use the term to refer to the modern furry fandom

[mondhasen]

*snicker* I recall many a late night conversation, the existence of them at least, but not all the points discussed, concerning Furry, back when I first found Yiffnet through one SnowyDog whom I had met in the IRC chatrooms. Aside from so many of the furs there wanting to, well, *yiffity yiff*, there were many who, like myself, were drawn there because there seemed to be a beckoning call among awakening souls that something existed...

The short of it was that I knew what Furry was then, and what it meant to be Furry and what was encompassed by Furry. It's a blur, now, as each sub-group that was then forming, evolving, if I may say, has taken a lead in defining the overall image.

[schnee]

I know what you mean, yeah. When I first got into furry I actually found it easier to define it, too - which is funny, because back then it was sort of a running theme (at the early EFs, say) that "furry" defied description, or that at the very least you couldn't say what made or didn't make a person "a furry