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.