Furry conventions offer a range of volunteer-led programming, usually focusing on anthropomorphic art, crafts, music and literature. Some raise money for charity. Attendees often dress up in fursuits and wear artistic name badges for identification, though the majority do not.

The cost to register for a furry convention as a non-sponsor is typical $60 or less, but once one figure in the costs of transportation, lodging, and meals, attendees are likely to spend upwards of $400 to attend. Some furries do not attend any conventions, while others attend several each year.

Is it safe for my child to attend a furry convention? Yes, unless the convention itself is advertised specifically as an “adult-only convention” (typically due to alcohol use and adult-themed panels), but such conventions are rare.

11 Signs (and Quizes) that You are a Furry

• You like anthropomorphic animals. The biggest sign about furries is that they like anthropomorphic animals.
• You want to be one.
• You draw animals.
• You create characters.
• You like dressing up as animals.
• You don’t judge the fandom.
• You identify with an animal.
• You write furry fanfic.

If you’re a fan of Sonic because he’s an anthropomorphic animal, then you’re a furry fan. If you couldn’t give a care or like Sonic despite being an anthropomorphic animal, then you’re not really a furry fan. The intention of an artist is completely immaterial, except for determining their own furry fandom status.

No. Just watching a show with anthropomorphic animals in it does not make you a furry. The go-to answer is “you’re only a furry if you consider yourself a furry.” But aside from that, at its very simplest, the furry fandom is defined by an interest in anthropomorphic animals.

Just because you enjoy furry art does not make you a furry. Although many who like it are furries, becoming a furry is completely up to you. You could like everything about furries and still not be one. However, much about the furry “culture” has to do with the art, and I think you would rather enjoy it.

No. The vast, vast majority of furries aren’t artists. You don’t have to be an artist (or a writer, or work at a convention, or anything else). But if you do want to be an artist, you’ll find furry is a pretty receptive and encouraging community.

Words We’re Watching: ‘Furry’ and ‘Fursona’ A rising usage of furry refers to people who have a keen interest in, or even dress up as, anthropomorphic animal characters, like those often seen in comics, games, and cartoons.

Furries are people who have an interest in anthropomorphic animals, or animals with human qualities.

TikTok is full of furries There is a huge furry fanbase on TikTok, consisting of loads of people who all identify with and dress up as animals.

Furries and other people who identify as non-human in some substantial degree are known as “otherkin.” “Therians” are otherkin who identify with, in whole or part, an actually existing species that live or have lived on Earth (wolves are the most common).

Most Frequently Identified Furry Creators / Performers

Furries often talk with a silly tone in their voice or warm tone, like you’d talk to a baby. They do this either in passing conversation but mostly in character/in fursuit. Sometimes it sounds very roleplay-esque like, “nuzzles you”, “cuddles”, “high paw!” instead of “high five!” and don’t forget the tilde “~”.

In sum, the data suggest that about 1 in 4 furries are exclusively heterosexual, 1 in 5 are exclusively homosexual, and the rest are somewhere in-between.