Is being a zoofur even worth it?

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HellCat9788

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Just a little rant

Sometimes i find it extremely scary how hard people go out their way just to expose someone, practically ending their life just for being a Zoofur, even talking about it shows a big red flags,to put a idea if what I'm talking about, I live in constant fear that I'm a be called out, exposed to who I really am, and I'll lose everything I've built up in the furry community, I'm not a well known furry to say the least, but I've built a pretty good reputation and friend group, and I've seen how angry and devoted furries get when they find out someone is a zoophilia, i lay in bed wondering what will happen, I'm not proud, I just enjoy being into zoo, one fear I have, is getting a fursuit and being called out, knowing that the fursuit will be a waste of money if I'm exposed, I do take extra steps to make sure I don't give off any ideas, but I've almost been called out by someone close to me, they only promise not to expose me unless they finds out I get a pet or commission feral art, he will expose me, I've tried leaving the zoofur community, but it's just super hard, I can't keep living like this.
 
HellCat9788 said:
Just a little rant

Sometimes i find it extremely scary how hard people go out their way just to expose someone, practically ending their life just for being a Zoofur, even talking about it shows a big red flags,to put a idea if what I'm talking about, I live in constant fear that I'm a be called out, exposed to who I really am, and I'll lose everything I've built up in the furry community, I'm not a well known furry to say the least, but I've built a pretty good reputation and friend group, and I've seen how angry and devoted furries get when they find out someone is a zoophilia, i lay in bed wondering what will happen, I'm not proud, I just enjoy being into zoo, one fear I have, is getting a fursuit and being called out, knowing that the fursuit will be a waste of money if I'm exposed, I do take extra steps to make sure I don't give off any ideas, but I've almost been called out by someone close to me, they only promise not to expose me unless they finds out I get a pet or commission feral art, he will expose me, I've tried leaving the zoofur community, but it's just super hard, I can't keep living like this.
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I've honestly just not done any interaction that causes zoo to bleed into furry(ness). Other than faving some feral art occasionally and following certain artists, I don't talk about this side of me at all. Don't feed the trolls, don't put the two lives together, you know?

And yes, it is scary. That's just the reactionary way of the world now, someone will hate you for merely being alive, and will do anything they can to destroy you.
 
HellCat9788 said:
.. I do take extra steps to make sure I don't give off any ideas, but I've almost been called out by someone close to me, they only promise not to expose me unless they finds out I get a pet or commission feral art, he will expose me, I've tried leaving the zoofur community, but it's just super hard, I can't keep living like this.
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Create new accounts without real data (except maybe year of birth and what else you want to take into being a furry).
Delete / forget the old ones. New fursona(s) altogether.

Don't tell other furries about your sexual interest in animals. You won't go on a roller-coaster ride and tell random people sitting near you that you love animals more than just as pets.

Get a fur suit or build one.. doesn't matter. Just don't give anyone anything of proving worth for outing you.
If you whisper it to someone somewhere in real life and deny it if he should ever tell it thirds, he has at least no written statement. Online this is no solution, so.. better don't tell them about this different aspect of yours.

Personally would not further invest time into your "established furry persona / social circle" if someone already knows about your interests and threatened to expose you. What do you think will happen in future? That they change their mind and stops threatening? :unsure:

If you want contacts to zoofurs, just make yourself another fursona without any(!) identifiable links to your real life and get active in zoofur communities, like here. You can state your interests, your age (not too precisely), your desires, rough looks, whatever.. but not your exact city, body details, animal details, like patterns / fur shape (if you get one) or fursuit.
Except if you create another fursuit -exclusively- for the zoofur appearance and -don't- use it outside, aside on (not that I recommend partaking in those..) zoofur events, while transporting it encased.

Linking an established fursona / furry social circle (one person is enough) to something like sexual interests in animals.. it's like running around with a Zetapin in size of a car wheel on the neck while being influencer on youtube. Takes five minutes and problems will occur. Not a question of chance, just of time.
 
HellCat9788 said:
Just a little rant

Sometimes i find it extremely scary how hard people go out their way just to expose someone, practically ending their life just for being a Zoofur, even talking about it shows a big red flags,to put a idea if what I'm talking about, I live in constant fear that I'm a be called out, exposed to who I really am, and I'll lose everything I've built up in the furry community, I'm not a well known furry to say the least, but I've built a pretty good reputation and friend group, and I've seen how angry and devoted furries get when they find out someone is a zoophilia, i lay in bed wondering what will happen, I'm not proud, I just enjoy being into zoo, one fear I have, is getting a fursuit and being called out, knowing that the fursuit will be a waste of money if I'm exposed, I do take extra steps to make sure I don't give off any ideas, but I've almost been called out by someone close to me, they only promise not to expose me unless they finds out I get a pet or commission feral art, he will expose me, I've tried leaving the zoofur community, but it's just super hard, I can't keep living like this.
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Yah I would have to agree with YanchaOkami. If this person actually has real evidence on you, not just his word against yours, then you're gonna have to start over if you want to live safely and comfortably in the furry community.

I live 3 different lives with different online personas who's data never publicly overlaps in any way: normal everyday, furry, zoo/zoofurry.

Be careful who you give any of your identity details to, promises means nothing! Antis can be remarkably convincing, even sharing actual zoo porn to bait and trap zoos into admitting and then getting doxed, reported, threatened, blackmailed, the works. Which is why I believe its always smartest to take the "not zoo but zoo friendly in some cases" stance. Though depending on the details of your situation in particular, might be best for you to deny it completely and live separate lives from here on out until you can network underground through trusted zoofurries.

Also I saw you mention telegram earlier. In case you don't know, telegram allows screenshots on iphones and on android using hacks.
 
I have gone the extra step and made a new telegram only for Zoofurs, and this person i still have ties together, our relationship between eachother is still grim and a bit shady at times, but the reason he had it out for me is because he had feelings for me and I rejected him, we still talk on a regular basis form time to time, but just knowing he did this only because I broke his heart, he hates zoophilia mainly because of the whole "it's animal abuse"
 
This is my first post here mostly out of paranoia that this will come back to haunt me somehow. Being a zoofur is terrifying to me just due to the fact that people hunt anyone out of the norm down to excessive lengths. However I do want to say that your "friend" who is threatening you isn't a good friend for doing that at all and I'd try to dump them off if possible. That's not cool of them to do at all in any manor. I wish you the best of luck holms and honestly just plan things out carefully is my best advice.
 
Me and this person have settled things somewhat, he did eventually admitted, he was acting childish and jealous, like come on, I rejected him and he got upset,and his option was to expose me??? Not gonna lie, but I have been told I can find ways into people heart, but that doesn't give anyone the right to threaten someone because you got rejected, I only tell people I can trust, and those who mention Zoofurs in a "ok" kind of way, our conservative and the way I told him, started with him liking the idea of Feral and Anthro, and that he loved the idea of his Fursona with a feral dog and/or horse, my guard was lowered and I told him, he didn't care, I will say this was, 3 to 4 weeks before I rejected him, and funny how we made jokes about peanut butter and dogs, we're still talking, but my trust for him and me being a Zoofur, is completely gone, I watch what I say, I change the subject when zoo gets involved, he's a nice guy, but I just don't trust him with having the knowledge of me being a Zoofur, not to mention this individual is younger then me, at 19 years, so makes sense he overreacted
 
I mean being real there were still better ways for him to take that overall n just be careful chief and don't let people take advantage of you being nice. If that's all it took for him to flip on you I understand being careful around someone but holms your close friends shouldn't be the people you have to hide yourself around in my opinion. I'm pretty open about my stuff with my closest friends and overall the reactions when I brought it up with them were reasonable. I don't really know your whole situation so I can't speak on your behalf but I'd just tread lightly, and it sounds like he's honestly got some ideas of his own but is probably just insecure about them with the whole into feral stuff.
 
It's worth what ever one seems it to be worth. :unsure:
There's no way you could buy any goods - even cheap toast is out of game - by yelling in the store: "I'm a furry!".
The only precise value is the one you give your interests and hobbies. (y)
 
Well, Im new here, (and a furry as well), so I feel like I should say hello to you and give a reply. 👋
I know exactly how you feel, as I was having slight depression and aching spirit, after finding out how opinionated people/furries are about being a Zoo, and I delt with the majority of that about three weeks ago now.
I have come to a place where I realize that I need to stand up for myself and my beliefs, as nobody has the right to judge them, I'll use this example, I have a acquaintance that started hurling his comments of nonsense around, and how he is "spying on certain furries" because he is suspicious of them being Zoo's, (and because obviously it would be a bad idea to say straight up that I am one, I had to figure a way to defend them without explicitly saying I am one), so to summarize, he goes on to say that everyone does it, and I basically said that it was none of his business what they are doing, and that his behavior is unhealthy.
I have gotten tired of feeling downtrodden, and that I at least have to subtly defend myself.
My personal opinions about the furry community, is that if they are not secretly Zoo's, they are projecting, and that the unconscious is using furry stuff, for a substitute for the real thing because it is "detrimental to the Ego". So they project, pointing and saying "Zoo's are bad", in one hand, and in the other getting off to animal genitals.
Its nothing short of hypocrisy, and shows how little they understand what they are doing, (which sorta makes sense to why alot of them have toxic behaviors).
So yes, I think that the Furry Fandom is mostly made up of people who either consciously or unconsciously, are using it as a release of the ever building structure of the unconscious to being a Zoo, and must use it as a way of integrating itself into your life.
(What will make this bad, is if it happends unconsciously, obviously consciously integrating this into your life is not going to have the same ill effect as unconsciously, because it will swallow the "Self").
 
Caballo Loco said:
Well, Im new here, (and a furry as well), so I feel like I should say hello to you and give a reply. 👋
I know exactly how you feel, as I was having slight depression and aching spirit, after finding out how opinionated people/furries are about being a Zoo, and I delt with the majority of that about three weeks ago now.
I have come to a place where I realize that I need to stand up for myself and my beliefs, as nobody has the right to judge them, I'll use this example, I have a acquaintance that started hurling his comments of nonsense around, and how he is "spying on certain furries" because he is suspicious of them being Zoo's, (and because obviously it would be a bad idea to say straight up that I am one, I had to figure a way to defend them without explicitly saying I am one), so to summarize, he goes on to say that everyone does it, and I basically said that it was none of his business what they are doing, and that his behavior is unhealthy.
I have gotten tired of feeling downtrodden, and that I at least have to subtly defend myself.
My personal opinions about the furry community, is that if they are not secretly Zoo's, they are projecting, and that the unconscious is using furry stuff, for a substitute for the real thing because it is "detrimental to the Ego". So they project, pointing and saying "Zoo's are bad", in one hand, and in the other getting off to animal genitals.
Its nothing short of hypocrisy, and shows how little they understand what they are doing, (which sorta makes sense to why alot of them have toxic behaviors).
So yes, I think that the Furry Fandom is mostly made up of people who either consciously or unconsciously, are using it as a release of the ever building structure of the unconscious to being a Zoo, and must use it as a way of integrating itself into your life.
(What will make this bad, is if it happends unconsciously, obviously consciously integrating this into your life is not going to have the same ill effect as unconsciously, because it will swallow the "Self").
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This pretty much completely sums up what the fandom has been for me for the past 15 years. I was pretty conscious of it at first, but then started just living in denial
 
Deene said:
This pretty much completely sums up what the fandom has been for me for the past 15 years. I was pretty conscious of it at first, but then started just living in denial
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Im glad I could help somebody relate, lol.
I dont exactly know why I was like this, but I was opposite of that, I started out as a Zoo, before I excepted that I wanted to be a furry, and despite me only deciding this a month and a half ago, I still dont remember why I felt that way about them, oh well...
But as I have read, (and most people are like yourself), that they end up denying a part of themselves to "fit in".
So when you join or identify with a community, dont let your identity get lost, as I assume most people do, you did this thing for yourself, so dont downplay yourself and your convictions to blend in with the crowd.
Like all beliefs and ideologies, you must never lose yourself in the identity of the crowd, this is where the loss of personal power comes from, because some of us are literally giving it away unknowingly.

Own an idea, before an idea owns you!
 
HellCat9788 said:
Just a little rant

Sometimes i find it extremely scary how hard people go out their way just to expose someone, practically ending their life just for being a Zoofur, even talking about it shows a big red flags,to put a idea if what I'm talking about, I live in constant fear that I'm a be called out, exposed to who I really am, and I'll lose everything I've built up in the furry community, I'm not a well known furry to say the least, but I've built a pretty good reputation and friend group, and I've seen how angry and devoted furries get when they find out someone is a zoophilia, i lay in bed wondering what will happen, I'm not proud, I just enjoy being into zoo, one fear I have, is getting a fursuit and being called out, knowing that the fursuit will be a waste of money if I'm exposed, I do take extra steps to make sure I don't give off any ideas, but I've almost been called out by someone close to me, they only promise not to expose me unless they finds out I get a pet or commission feral art, he will expose me, I've tried leaving the zoofur community, but it's just super hard, I can't keep living like this.
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You are so right. I remember what they did to a friend. That's why, while I might be attracted to some of the drawings, I have nothing to do with furries. Furry is half-ass. I do this with my whole ass.
 
I absolutely know how you feel. While i'd love to be more open and active in the zoo community, im just too afraid of being found out and exposed. Its kinda hard to let go of being a furry when one of the first things that made you realize you were a zoo in the first place was art with animal genitals and feral art lmao. As been said previously, just either hide it completely, or seperate the two.
 
Honestly I've been thinking about creating an entire online persona for zoofur stuff and not have it leak into my regular stuff at all, but even then that's risky. Even ferals are risky even though a lot of ferals aren't zoos (though more are than they actually want to admit for fear of being expose).

Thing is, furries just have a negative reaction to being compared to zoophiles that they probably react worse than non furries at this point, mostly to take suspicion off themselves. I personally believe that, despite overlap, furries and zoos are entirely different things altogether, with Zoofurs being the exception not the rule.
 
GhostHowl said:
I absolutely know how you feel. While i'd love to be more open and active in the zoo community, im just too afraid of being found out and exposed. Its kinda hard to let go of being a furry when one of the first things that made you realize you were a zoo in the first place was art with animal genitals and feral art lmao. As been said previously, just either hide it completely, or seperate the two.
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I remember what happened to a friend.
 
HellCat9788 said:
Just a little rant

Sometimes i find it extremely scary how hard people go out their way just to expose someone, practically ending their life just for being a Zoofur, even talking about it shows a big red flags,to put a idea if what I'm talking about, I live in constant fear that I'm a be called out, exposed to who I really am, and I'll lose everything I've built up in the furry community, I'm not a well known furry to say the least, but I've built a pretty good reputation and friend group, and I've seen how angry and devoted furries get when they find out someone is a zoophilia, i lay in bed wondering what will happen, I'm not proud, I just enjoy being into zoo, one fear I have, is getting a fursuit and being called out, knowing that the fursuit will be a waste of money if I'm exposed, I do take extra steps to make sure I don't give off any ideas, but I've almost been called out by someone close to me, they only promise not to expose me unless they finds out I get a pet or commission feral art, he will expose me, I've tried leaving the zoofur community, but it's just super hard, I can't keep living like this.
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Im going out here, but yanacha okama is 100% right here, I've kept it off the radar for a couple years now, but im not really into feral so it helps, but i know many furries will actively harass you and seems people to harass you emotionaly, mentaly, and unfortunatly, physically as well. Ive known people who git attacked for being a zoofur by memvers of the community, and i even know someone who rest his soul, blew his btaons out due to the harrassment when he wasnteven actually a zoo at all but someone told a lie and it spiraled out of control, but this gives me a fair bit of leverage when i put my foot down to stop people from harrassing them when thats just as dangerous, hell the whole reason they got wrapped up in it is because he was trying to stop the harrassment, but it doesn't end.

I personally have my lives split very far, different names, unsure date of birth. And i keep my real name off the internet and use many emails and avoid talking about it. But im also not fully into zoo, just mostly curious still, i haven't tried it yet but I'd like to add i feel everything's worth trying once,

Anyways that was a tangent, back to the harassment thing, im in a friend group for a twitch steamer, and they are very aggressive with this kind of thing, i refuse to comment on it because they turn to harassment and some of the community members have threatened to personally murder zoophiles which I'm close to putting my foot down on this but unfortunately the majority of them agree, one of them actually is overly aggressive about it, especially at 15, and when i said not to harass people for being racist, homophobic, and sexist they accused me of supporting that behavior, i left immediately and haven't actually spleen out played with just them since,.

Anyways, I'm of the firm beleif that i don't care what you like, as long as nobody is getting forced to do something or hurt, it's none of my housings so if i try it and find it i don't like it, that's that. I won't out any of the people I've met, i won't block them, i won't harass them, just let them be. Unfortunately a massive chunk of the furry community are overly aggressive in you must be a certain way to the point that it seems like a highly toxic Fandom
 
Jcfhad said:
.. Unfortunately a massive chunk of the furry community are overly aggressive in you must be a certain way to the point that it seems like a highly toxic Fandom
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Yep, unfortunately there's a sheer layer of insults, aggression and hate thrown towards anyone they suspect (at least in bigger communities it's often taken as truth without verification), while in many cases the suspected ones are not even zoofurs. Seems an easy way to "get people they don't like to leave", which is a form of toxic lie spreading, mostly without proof.
 
YanchaOkami said:
Yep, unfortunately there's a sheer layer of insults, aggression and hate thrown towards anyone they suspect (at least in bigger communities it's often taken as truth without verification), while in many cases the suspected ones are not even zoofurs. Seems an easy way to "get people they don't like to leave", which is a form of toxic lie spreading, mostly without proof.
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It's just like the way that the worst gay-bashers are at best latent, and are often getting just as much gay sex as anyone.
 
Like most have said, I keep everything apart from one another, just know if you need anyone to vent or chat with about this stuff I’m here
 
HellCat9788 said:
Just a little rant

Sometimes i find it extremely scary how hard people go out their way just to expose someone, practically ending their life just for being a Zoofur, even talking about it shows a big red flags,to put a idea if what I'm talking about, I live in constant fear that I'm a be called out, exposed to who I really am, and I'll lose everything I've built up in the furry community, I'm not a well known furry to say the least, but I've built a pretty good reputation and friend group, and I've seen how angry and devoted furries get when they find out someone is a zoophilia, i lay in bed wondering what will happen, I'm not proud, I just enjoy being into zoo, one fear I have, is getting a fursuit and being called out, knowing that the fursuit will be a waste of money if I'm exposed, I do take extra steps to make sure I don't give off any ideas, but I've almost been called out by someone close to me, they only promise not to expose me unless they finds out I get a pet or commission feral art, he will expose me, I've tried leaving the zoofur community, but it's just super hard, I can't keep living like this.
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Being an out zoofur no… unfortunately the fandom hates zoos it’s why I stay in the closet about it.
 
I love Pokemon, and the Pokemon fandom, especially the porn. That plus of course the plethora of porn that is in the furry community too. I just wouldn't be out and about with being a ZooFur, but somehow Pokemon get that slide because of intelligence. I would recommend keeping public fetishes to more "acceptable" Furry Icons.

Never really see anyone bitching over being knotted to a Houndoom you know?
 
Katelyn said:
I love Pokemon, and the Pokemon fandom, especially the porn. That plus of course the plethora of porn that is in the furry community too. I just wouldn't be out and about with being a ZooFur, but somehow Pokemon get that slide because of intelligence. I would recommend keeping public fetishes to more "acceptable" Furry Icons.

Never really see anyone bitching over being knotted to a Houndoom you know?
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Or a rapidash, sawsbuck or zebstrika
 
Literally came here to talk about the Pokefur to Zoofur pipeline lmao everyone wants to murder us until they see Entei

But also just as a good place to introduce myself. >3 cause yall are the kind I wanna hang out with.

It feels hard to leave the community you've built behind, but its really necessary for your safety it sounds like :( and for those you interact with too. Thats what I try to remember heh having just started over myself
 
Basically the Furry Community can be very toxic from my own experience. Try to seperate the Zoo and Furry fandoms from another.
But it does not mean that you shouldn‘t slowly check „suspicious“ furrys if they may be interested into zoo too. Best thing you could do is checking their favorites gallery, if there is one. Of there are mostly favorites with feral genitalia you could somehow be sure he might be interested into Zoo.
Also try to avoid „popular“ furs. They are mostly out there for the exposure, don‘t bother with them. Also there are quite some artists who are into Zoo. Check their artworks, write them, maybe commission them and ask them if they are okay with real life references. This would also be an indicator for zoo positivity.
 
i choose to keep those both aspects about myself separate. by never initiating or voluntarily participating in a conversation about zoos with furries, i avoid trouble and make my life a little easier. i get the frustration, my first ex boyfriend who i’m still decent friends with was the only person i opened up to about being zoo, something that we both shared and i know for a fact he still is one. weeks ago he reshared a post denouncing zoo furs. is it annoying that he did that? of course, it’s unnecessary. but the only reason i can think of him doing that is to deflect that part of himself.
 
shepherdluv said:
i choose to keep those both aspects about myself separate. by never initiating or voluntarily participating in a conversation about zoos with furries, i avoid trouble and make my life a little easier. i get the frustration, my first ex boyfriend who i’m still decent friends with was the only person i opened up to about being zoo, something that we both shared and i know for a fact he still is one. weeks ago he reshared a post denouncing zoo furs. is it annoying that he did that? of course, it’s unnecessary. but the only reason i can think of him doing that is to deflect that part of himself.
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That reminds me of a guy I was dating nearly 8 years ago. I invited him to my home, we were playing on my xBox, He brought his Guitar and played for me a bit. Some time later we made out, got into the bed for sexy time.
Next date we were doing a walk and he asked me if we were boyfriends. And I told him the first thing he should know is, that I am Zoo. He laughed and told me he has seen a suspicious Tab on my browser when the screensaver was not on and he doesn‘t mind. He is even interested into it, thats why he recognized the logo and first three letters of the tab. I am happily together with him since then. Both furries. What a fu**ing coincidence :D
 
SloppyMare said:
That reminds me of a guy I was dating nearly 8 years ago. I invited him to my home, we were playing on my xBox, He brought his Guitar and played for me a bit. Some time later we made out, got into the bed for sexy time.
Next date we were doing a walk and he asked me if we were boyfriends. And I told him the first thing he should know is, that I am Zoo. He laughed and told me he has seen a suspicious Tab on my browser when the screensaver was not on and he doesn‘t mind. He is even interested into it, thats why he recognized the logo and first three letters of the tab. I am happily together with him since then. Both furries. What a fu**ing coincidence :D
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That's so sweet. Congratulations
 
shepherdluv said:
i choose to keep those both aspects about myself separate. by never initiating or voluntarily participating in a conversation about zoos with furries, i avoid trouble and make my life a little easier. i get the frustration, my first ex boyfriend who i’m still decent friends with was the only person i opened up to about being zoo, something that we both shared and i know for a fact he still is one. weeks ago he reshared a post denouncing zoo furs. is it annoying that he did that? of course, it’s unnecessary. but the only reason i can think of him doing that is to deflect that part of himself.
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Probably because of the witch hunt
 
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