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For the second year in a row, the KROQ crew stayed in the same hotel for Weenie Roast as everyone in town for the Califur Convention - the gathering of grown-ass men (and a few women) that dress up, head to toe, as furry cartoon animals.
Police are searching for an armed robber dressed as a large furry animal who outran them after holding up a bank in the Swedish city of Gothenberg.
A southern California DreamWorks animator is accused of beating a puppy with a hammer so badly that Humane Society workers are calling it one of the worst cases of animal abuse they've ever seen.
"The city council in Hesperia, California approved a pair of rats as service animals on Tuesday, in spite of the federal government's declaration that dogs are the only service animals and a protest by the local Tea Party."
"To top everything off, she also discovered her "costuming passion" – the creation of furry, anthropomorphic animal costumes – due to a classmate who introduced her to the field. Brooklyn began designing and making the costumes last spring and, after attending a convention of "fursuit" devotees while wearing one of her creations, she began selling the costumes for as much as $900 each."
"Have we as a society grown so irrational and psychotic that we have to be reminded that there is a boundary between the reality outside our heads and the fantasies within? Are we in danger of drifting into a stupefied slumber where the figments of our dreams can claim the rights that we have previously reserved for concrete entities?
The characters of fiction, written down as literature, drawn as manga or anime, expressed in the multitude of means technology has granted to us, lack independent agency. By hijacking our mind's ability to empathise and reason about other minds they creat
"The large furry rabbit walking between Central and Garfield avenues Wednesday was no hallucination, especially for drivers who failed to yield."
The state that was the first to enact a registry for sex offenders is now considering a similar measure for people convicted of abuse of animals, wild or domestic. Animal welfare agencies are pushing for the measure, as are criminologists who state that such behavior is often a precursor to violence against humans.
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