A 2014 survey found that tails are the most commonly owned fur-suit component, with 48.1 percent of respondents at Furry Fiesta 2014 reporting owning a tail. ( Douglas Muth)įur-suiting and the furry community tend to be conflated in the popular press, but research by the International Anthropomorphic Research Project, which studies the furry fandom, suggests fur-suiters are a minority of that community.Ī 2007 survey found that only 26.4 percent of respondents at a furry convention reported owning a fur-suit and 30 percent reported wearing one. Note that most of the people on the convention floor aren't suited. 1) So being a furry means you run around in a fur suit all the time, right?įur-suiters on parade at Anthrocon 2007. Here's a brief guide to the furry community, which hopefully can clear up some of these misunderstandings. īut survey evidence suggests a lot of these stereotypes are wrong (very few furries think sex in animal costumes is a good idea, for instance).

Mainstream press accounts tend to portray furries as sexual fetishists united by a common interest in sex in animal costumes. Furries - people with an interest in anthropomorphized animals, like Sonic the Hedgehog or Pokémon - have come in for a lot of ridicule over the years from posters on sites like Something Awful and 4chan.