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Pat The Fox · Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 5:26 pm Post subject:

It is that there will be much differnece in the way some animals are. You probably wouldn't see greyhounds has they were bread specifically to be fast, along with almost any thorough bread horse. Mankind has messed around alot with animals..like for example chickens

Galadrion · Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 5:42 pm Post subject:

Hm... why wouldn't they? Furries, at least as this group has written them, have a similar social and technological framework to our world - it stands to reason that they developed through similar pathways. There were good reasons for humans to domesticate animals; wouldn't furries have those same reasons? Free example: the humanoid form is ill-suited to herding sheep, unless you have a large number of people. Wouldn't it make sense to domesticate a feral wolf-like critter to help? Wouldn't it make even more sense (and perhaps be easier) if the herder could communicate with the feral?

The way I see it, pets make just as much sense for furries as they do for humans. What "use" do most people get out of pets? As near as I can tell, it's mostly a companionship thing - very few people these days use animals for "practical" purposes anymore. It would be pretty much the same for furries.

As to what pets would be appropriate... that would be up to individual taste. Somehow, I think that furries keeping their own "type" as a pet would be somewhat rare - much like a human with a pet monkey is in our world. But it could happen...

Toric · Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2002 1:18 pm Post subject:

Tygon · Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2002 1:27 pm Post subject:

Concolor · Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2002 1:53 pm Post subject:

Toric · Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2002 2:09 pm Post subject:

Hmmm... Well, in addition to her not having any pets in Jame's story, I don't see ZZ as being a pet-person anyway. She might have done some videos with big cats or something when she was still acting though... but that's another subject.

As far as no feral hybrids.... Awwww..... mebbe I'll just have to make my own world where there are feral hybrids! Ha!

^.^

Tygon · Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2002 2:12 pm Post subject:

ironbadger · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 4:24 am Post subject:

Pets show up in quite a few furry stories- but I believe the reason they don't often is that the author is concentrating more on the furry characters than on anything else.
And a lot of folks these days who live in urban environments do not own pets.

As for the whole question of domestic versus feral stuff-
What?- you think furries couldn't or wouldn't keep reptiles or fish or birds as pets?

Birds, snakes, and fish are more commonly kept these days that dogs or cats, or even hamsters.

As for domestic species based furries- depends on the writer and how the furries in their world came about.

There is more of a trend these days it seems towards naturally evolved furs than genetic creations- but both are still represented in most furry writing.

On the question of reading furry writing-

I've been asked before, so I'll toss this out in public.

If your writing has strong misanthropic elements- (IE- humans are the bad guys or treated as objects to be hated-)
Don't ask me to read it; because I won't, thank you.

I don't care for the "humans are evil and must be destroyed" line.
It just pisses me off, and I have too little time for myself these days to want to spend it reading things I won't enjoy.

-Badger-

Guest · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 4:46 am Post subject:

Nameless · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 5:23 am Post subject:

Toric · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 5:50 am Post subject:

*is herded off by cali?*

At the risk of sounding repetetive: Eep...

Sooo... where are we going cali? And uhhh.. umm. SF... does she like to be petted or anything? What does she eat....????

SkunkFox · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 7:21 am Post subject:

Scratch her ears and she'll love ya for life, tummy rubs, & back scratches are her favorite, and she loves when you play with her tail too.
Fox diet of fresh meat, though normal fresh pouch dog food works well too, but don't forget the added roots and grubs most skunks like. Oh one thing, don't try to tickle her paws, she loves it but she has the nasty habit of spraying if you over do it. She mostly takes care of herself, but you might want to consider a flea dip every once in awhile. Oh almost forgot she'll get into the oddest perdictiments as well, so keep an eye on her....more so around pools she loves to swim around for hours, and you'll have a little problem getting her out. uh well get a level 2 canister type gasmask....and you might want this as well in case she sprays. *tosses Toric a bottle of Deact.*

SkunkFox....hasn't a clue as to why he's still able to function right now....neither does anyone else appearently *Lmao*

Almost forgot She loves kids too!