Written by PETA
Heads up, Pittsburgh: A menagerie of costumed wolves, rabbits, foxes, and other fake fauna are about to converge on your city.
And no, it has nothing to do with PETA.
Actually, it's all about Anthrocon—the world's largest "Furry" convention. OK, so if you don't know what a Furry is, I know you're dying to ask. In a nutshell, a Furry is a person who is totally into animal anthropomorphism (assigning animals human traits). I mean totally into it. We're talking loving fictional animal characters so much that they often wear mascot-like costumes of their fave animals (think Crayola-colored cheetahs in cargo pants).
Which is where PETA came into the picture. Don't get me wrong, we weren't trying to harsh their mellow. We just wanted to make sure that convention-going "Fursuiters"—as they like to be called—weren't parading around in the pelts of real animals. Here's the letter we sent to them:
Their response?
Dear Shawna: Real fur is frowned upon at all furry conventions, in the same sense that leaping in front of speeding locomotives is frowned upon at comic book conventions. Yours truly, Samuel Conway, Ph.D.Chairman and CEOAnthrocon, Inc.
Dear Shawna:
Real fur is frowned upon at all furry conventions, in the same sense that leaping in front of speeding locomotives is frowned upon at comic book conventions.
Yours truly,
Samuel Conway, Ph.D.Chairman and CEOAnthrocon, Inc.
Written by Amy Elizabeth
ARE YOU DENSE OR WHAT?! It IS clear that the fursuits are made with faux fur! Every furry frowns upon the use of real fur, and God have mercy of whoever wears real fur and call themselves furry.
Also, PETA, stob aimming your hate cannons at the wrong targets! Seriously, Mario accused of using raccoon-dog fur? If you studied japanese folklore, you would have realized the truth is that the leaf powerup is based on one of the many way kitsune and tanuki use to transform, while the "suit" itself was an icon for a full transformation!
But "NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, we only want to protest and then decided to insult a FAMOUS GAME MASCOT!". For GOODNESS SAKE!
Start argetting senators, governators and any of those if you WANT to cause REAL impact!
I find this very funny... I don't like cruelty to animals and all that terrible stuff but really... You could be doing something important, instead of writing letters to groups who you probably knew don't actually use real fur... The response that they sent back was great. Keep up the "Great" work PETA...
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