Men and women who like to dress up in animal costumes and have sex with each other.

"Jen, you want to go to the furries meeting tonight? There's a hot chick in an elephant costume I'd like to mate with."

A subgroup of science fiction and fantasy fans who focus on cartoon animals, anthropomorphic animals, or human-animal hybrids.

1. Anthropomorphic animal or cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny, Mickey mouse, or Tony The Tiger. So-called "funny animals."

2. Fans of artwork and stories about anthropomorphic animals.

There's a new movie being released this summer that has furries in it. (def. 1)

Furries at last year's charity auction raised over $8000 for a ferret shelter. (def. 2)

The less-formal term for anthropomorphic animals, which are usually cartoon characters. Furries are animals given human characteristics, like the talking moose in Brother Bear.

Fans of furry characters are also called furries.

In my spare time, I like to draw furries in my sketchbook.

Furries are friendly and fun to hang around with.

furries are people who either are fans of anthropomorphic characters (and draw them), people who have an obsession with them, have a sexual obsession with them, or just want to be an animal. Most are usually artists or online storywriters. Contrary to stereotypes, these people are not sexual perverts, just people with a different obsession than most.

Furries have been wrongly portrayed by television and haters.

Ok, an attempt at a balanced definition. I am NOT a furry but both sides hear me out before reaching for that thumbs down.

Furries are a relatively recent phenomenon which has been catapulted into near-mainstreamness almost solely because of the internet. It is obvious furries are very much victims of tarring the majority with the brush of an "unappealing" minority.

In the simplest sense furries are fans of anthropromorphic animals. That is, animals with human like features or tendencies (Fox McCloud, Sonic the Hedgehog... etc) pretty much all furries will create their own character or "fursona" for use as an art model and roleplaying, the designs of which vary wildly dependant on the artists skill and eye for contrasting colours (You get both amazing and appalling furry artists, and a wide skill range between these two) some furries can work wonders when it comes to creating a character on second life

The above paragraph is an apt description of your standard "furry", however there is a small but VERY vocal minority of the "yiff yiff" kind of division. Even though this sort of furry probably only takes up 1/10th of the fandom this is by FAR the type you hear about most often from anti-furry biased sources.

Furry porn is dangerously close to bestiality. Sorry to anyone who likes it, but it is... However the ones who like it seem to be in a minority, with the ones liking the odd fetishes like "vore" and "macro" a very small minority indeed.

Furries get a lot of crap thrown at them on the internet in relation to the activities of the minority of their fanbase. They have a reputation to reacting to this in an over the top manner (such as comparing their treatment to the Holocaust), which realy doesn't do them many favours.

However on the whole they are just a group of people who are fans of a single concept, seem to know how to have fun, and are doing alright for themselves in terms of publicity.

Furries: Do you wanna see my new cat character?

Retards who dress up as animals and fuck eachother. They are obsessed with anthro art and being an animal. Death to them and all of their vermin.

Furries like to fuck plush toys.