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Furries love anthropomorphism: animals who act like people. It’s in everything from Disney cartoons to werewolf movies and cyberpunk fiction. These fans flock to conventions 15,000 strong, where they flaunt millions worth of independent art. Want a look inside their fandom?

DOGPATCH PRESS is 6-time winner of Best Magazine in the fandom’s Ursa Major Awards, and a source to outlets like Rolling Stone, the L.A. Times, Vice, and Newsweek. It inspired the podcast series Fur and Loathing with Guardian journalist Nicky Woolf.

• “One of the most tenacious investigative reporters I’ve ever met” – Nicky Woolf
• “One of the community’s main news and reportage sites” – Daily KOS
• “A popular hub for discussion of furry issues” – The Daily Dot
• “A prominent furry news blogger” – Forbes

Here you can read 1200+ articles, reviews, interviews, and investigations. Expect a personal voice with love for pop culture, sharp-clawed opinions to dig out the truth, and a nose for news with tail wagging fun. It’s free for the love of it, to spread the news of why furries have one of the most creative subcultures around.

Topics (see also Special Features and Top Articles):

• Subcultural history. Roots in 1970’s underground comics, science fiction fandom, and myths since time began.
• Mainstream notice and crossover. In the headlines and on the street.
• Who’s who. Volunteers or superfans, they all do it with dogged DIY spirit.
• Creators and makers. Writing, art, animation, costuming, dance and music.
• Indie business. For love as much as money.
• Freaky cool. Trash, punk, kink, comedy, and WTF happenings.
• Things in the same dogpark. Nature, fashion, theater, psychology, Sasquatches.
• Identity and the Furry Condition. Why do people go wild for it?

GUEST WRITERS, REVIEWERS, AND PRESS RELEASES: You can submit stories for hosting as a public service. Any length is OK, and try to include photos/videos. Ask to promote something, get editing help, volunteer to get a project, or just send it in.

STAFF:

 

PATCH O’FURR (Founder): a fabulous husky dog who made the site to be like an ideal 1990’s zine. He has been a media speaker and performer, and organizer for events of several hundred furries. Street fursuiting is his favorite way to express the subculture. His other fursona is a punk rat in a vest that says Rat Race Dropout. In decades of self employment he has run a sales business and been a pro animator, art and bicycle instructor, and involved in the community and local government.

FRED PATTEN (1940-2018) – Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer, “considered one of the main founders of the furry fandom.” Fred was an honored contributor to sources like Cartoon Research, lead by Jerry Beck (president of The International Animated Film Society.) For several years this site gave him a home as a disabled elder to stay up front in fandom.

PUP MATTHIAS (Contributing Editor): Part of Furry fandom since 2009. He does a weekly book review show, Bookworm Reviews for books of all shapes and sizes. What he cares about most is that you have a nice day.

In the media:

2024

• Fur & Loathing podcast: Dogpatch Press investigated “the biggest unsolved crime in furry fandom”, an unsolved chemical terror attack, one of the largest such crimes in American history. This led to identifying a suspect and interviewing him and witnesses who were overlooked by the FBI. The story was picked up by Project Brazen, UK/Singapore based producers who used FOIA requests to deliver a podcast series.
• Variety: Project Brazen Launches ‘Fur & Loathing’ Podcast Investigating Unsolved 2014 Gas Attack on Furry Convention / exclusive introduction
• The Times: Fur and Loathing review — this dive into the attack on furries has me hooked
• The Guardian: The week in audio: Fur & Loathing; Dead Man Running; About the Boys; Vanessa Feltz – review
• Financial Times: Fur & Loathing podcast probes the mysterious poisoning of people in animal costumes — review
• New Statesman: Inside the strange story of the Midwest FurFest attack
• Lifehacker: 12 of the Best Podcasts of 2024 (So Far)
• Time: The Best Podcasts of 2024 So Far
• Irish Times: Fur & Loathing: an unsolved gas attack on a hotel and the rise of Nazi furries
• Slate/ICYMI podcast: Inside the Unsolved 2014 Attack on a Furry Convention
• Tea’s Weird Week: Podcast Recommendation: Fur & Loathing

2023

• Daily Dot/Passionfruit: ‘Cringe’ Halloween Costumes and the Paradox of the Internet

2022

• Rolling Stone: The Furry Community Is Struggling to Snuff Out Far-Right Agitators
• ABC7 News: Live coverage of San Francisco Pride parade
• Slate: Fur-mongering – Fake news about children “identifying” as animals is the latest stunt being pushed by so-called parental rights advocates
• Rolling Stone: Taylor Lorenz Wrote About Libs of TikTok — and Conservatives Are Having a Meltdown Over It
• Rolling Stone: Furries Speak Out About Alleged Portland Shooter
• Salon: Fear of “furries” in schools grips conservative parents fooled by absurd Facebook rumors
• Alternet: Fear of ‘furries’ in school grips conservative parents fooled by absurd Facebook rumors
• LGBTQNation: Furry Panic sweeps through Trump supporters, anti-vaxxers & the religious right
• The Daily Beast: Furry Panic Is the Latest Dumb GOP Attack on Public Schools

2021

• Slate: What’s Going On With Those Furry Nazis? How an anti-fascist Tasmanian Devil fought back against the alt-right in her fandom.
• We Got This Covered: A Furry Convention With Ties To The Alt-Right Was Announced And The Fandom Wants It Dead
• Tea’s Weird Week: How a Dogged Reporter Sniffed Out an Alt-Right Furry Infiltration and accompanying podcast interview (After we talked, Tea won the Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism Award)

2020

• The Daily Beast: Enraged Furries Make Internet Hell for Rabid Pro-Cop Group
• University of Amsterdam Media Studies, New Media and Digital Culture: Nazi Furs F*ck Off: Reclaiming online spaces in the age of political fandom
• Bearly Furcasting: Interview with Patch O’Furr
• Cecil McFly: Don’t Mess With Dogs: A Zoosadist Story Part 2
• Cracked: Unexpected Groups That Are Getting Torn Apart By Drama
• Newsweek: The True Story Behind ‘Last Week Tonight’s’ Rat Erotica Painting
• York Dispatch: ‘Last Week Tonight’ host seeks rat painting by York artist Brian Swords
• KQED: A Secret Weapon of the Progressive Left: Furries
• Broke-Ass Stuart: 10 INSANE SCENES FROM BERNIE SANDERS’ YUUUGE BAY AREA RALLY (In costume as “Furries 4 Bernie”)
• The Intelligencer: There’s a Lot of Sonic the Hedgehog Fetish Art Online. Why? (Context)
• Worst Year Ever podcast: How The Furries Fought The Nazis and Won Part 1 (Source)
• Worst Year Ever podcast: How The Furries Fought The Nazis and Won Part 2 (Big shoutout at 3:00)

2019

• Vulture: Is The Masked Singer Furry Crossover Culture? We Asked an Expert. (Interview)
• Wonkette: Milo’s Dream De-Furred
• LGBTQNation: The furry community is very LGBTQ-inclusive & doesn’t tolerate haters like Milo (Author)
• Secretmag.ru: A russian journalist looks at the market for furry art. (Source)
• The Daily Beast: How a Cooling Vest Invented by a Furry Made Its Way Into the U.S. Military
• The Daily Beast: Luxury Brand Started Selling $6,000 Animal Costumes. Furries Are Furious.
• Chicago Reader: But what do furries think of Cats?
• Daily KOS: Even furries have an alt-right problem
• New England Reptile: EXPOSED – REPTILE CHANNEL – DON’T SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL! (Source)
• KCBS/San Francisco Pride — Patch interviewed as organizer for the award winning furry group (at SF Pride since 2012).

2018

• On stage for Bawdy Storytelling show in San Francisco
• The Outline: Where will furries go after Tumblr?
• Buzzfeed: The News This Week: Furries, Nazis, And #MeToo (audio interview)
• Huffington Post: Alt-Right Furries Are Raging Online, And Leftist Furries Wonder What Is To Be Done

2017

• Vice: Who Makes Those Intricate, Expensive Furry Suits?
• SFist: Eyes Peeled, SF! A Fursuit Was Stolen From Fisherman’s Wharf
• Film Music Daily: Nova Seed Sountrack – Film ‘A Rare Find of Sci-Fi Animation’ – Dogpatch Press
• Thurston Howl Publishing: Furries Among Us 2 (Ursa Major Award-winning nonfiction anthology)

• Invasion by hate groups: They wormed in with methods they can use against any subculture (like neo-nazis in punk). Rocky Mountain Fur Con was canceled 12 hours after an expose broke here. “The intricacies of the story were first reported on the Dogpatch Press, a blog devoted to news about the furry community.” – Blair Miller, Denver7
• Denver7: Amid allegations of unpaid taxes, neo-Nazism, and sex offender, Denver furry convention canceled
• Newsweek: Neo-Nazi Furries are Trump’s Latest and Most Puzzling Alt-Right Supporters (source)
• Rolling Stone: Does the Furry Community Have a Nazi Problem?
• Daily Beast: Neo-Nazis Are Tearing the Furry World Apart
• Nerd and Tie: The Bizarre Fall of Rocky Mountain Fur Con
• Unicorn Booty: Denver Furry Convention Cancelled Amid Neo-Nazi Claims 
• Lawyers and Liquor: Free Furry of The Land: When SovCits and Furries Collide
• Bleeding Cool: How Nazi-Punching Lead To A Furry Con Cancellation
• Wonkette: Tax-Dodging Nazi Sovereign Citizen Furries Forced To Cancel Denver Furry Convention. Yes, Really.

2016

• SFist: Furry Community Responds To Possible Closing Of The Stud, Their Monthly Gathering Place
• SFist: Identity Theft: Furry Furious Until Stolen Suit Recovered
• SFist: California DMV Rejects License Plate FURRIES As ‘Sexual’ Term
• Adafruit Industries: Future Fursuiting (reposted on company blog)
• Death And Taxes: Tony the Tiger breaks silence, responds to Twitter furries.

• Tragedy in Southern California:  A triple homicide took loved members of the furry community. Patch helped a reporter to define the community, interview members, get a tip to police, replace rumor with facts, raise sympathy and spread a fundraiser. “Dogpatch Press, an online news site for the furry community, said in a statement that the Sept. 24 homicides – in which at least two of the victims are either active furries or have ties to that world – have been devastating.” – Scott Schwebke, Orange County Register
• Orange County Register: After Fullerton triple homicide, furry community devastated, fearful for their safety.
• Rolling Stone: Furry Community Shocked After Gory Triple Murder
• The LA Times/San Diego Tribune: Furry community puts events on hold as it grapples with triple murder in Orange County
• KTLA 5 News: Triple Homicide at Fullerton Home Leaves Furry Community Stunned
• NY Daily News: California furry-murder suspect discussed plot online days before killing

• Furries and Zootopia: Patch organized a theater screening for the Disney blockbuster. Hundreds attended, among the largest international Furry screenings. An article about them drew viral sharing and highest traffic on the site.
• Vanity Fair: Disney Seems to Be Embracing Its Furry Fan Base
• National Post: Is Disney targeting Zootopia marketing strategy toward Furries?
• Inverse.com: Disney Prepares to Cash In on the Furry Demographic with “Zootopia.”
• Inquisitr.com Is Disney marketing new movie Zootopia to Furries?
• Uproxx: A Real-Life Furry Confirms That Yes, Furries Love ‘Zootopia’”

2015

• On stage for Live Sex comedy show in San Francisco
• Racked: The Fursuit of Happiness: High Fashion in Furry Fandom

• CollegeHumor and the Ursa Major Awards:  CollegeHumor picked Dogpatch Press for exclusive news of the animated series Furry Force. Patch nominated it for the furry community’s Ursa Major award. It led CollegeHumor to lobby for votes, bringing unprecedented traffic to the award. Some fans were critical of being parodied, but award organizers praised the outside notice for what furries like. Furry Force won, beating My Little Pony for an upset victory. Writer Adam Conover said “What better honor is there for comedy writers, than for the community that you are making fun of to give you an award for how much they love what you made?”  Patch appeared as a cameo in episode 3.
• Splitsider: How the Furry Community Embraced CollegeHumor’s Furry-Lampooning ‘Furry Force’. “Popular furry blogger, Patch O’Furr, recently nominated the series for The Ursa Major Award for Best Dramatic Series or Short Work.” – Sydney Parker

2012-2014

• Performer in music videos by queer comedy rapper MC Crumbsnatcher, on stage at Tourette’s Without Regrets comedy show, fursuit go-go dancer for closing party of San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair, organizer for many events like street fairs with photos in the news.
• Flayrah: Writer for 45 articles of furry news.
• Virtual Costumer: Furry issue contributor (newsletter for the The Silicon Web Costumers’ Guild)

More Love and fandom

 

• “What is “furry fandom,” you may ask? I’m not quite sure how to describe it, even though the phenomenon has attracted growing media coverage. Best you visit Dogpatch Press and explore “furry fandom” for yourself.” – Michael Barrier (author of Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age)
• “Very diverse material, from newly published books, to important fandom news.” – Jesus Fox Forgives Your Yiffs
• “Dogpatch.Press has always been a source of inspiration… an invaluable resource for our community. ” – Culturally F’d
• “Dogpatch Press did an amazing investigative job on this one. They’re a regular Woofward and Barkstein!” – Furry Buzzfeed
• “Awesome blog! It’s real! I’m a fan of Furry and everything that has to do with the subculture.” Hunter Fox (author of A Billionaire Dinosaur Forced Me Gay.)
• “Patch O’Furr… defanged prejudices or assumptions about the Furry community, and was cautious to not speak for the entirety of his tribe… It was insightful to see, with levity firmly intact.” – Courting Comedy

HOW FURRY NEWS WORKS. Many furry news sources have briefly risen in the fractured online landscape, a few catch on for a brief time, and then they fizzle for lack of any other incentive besides personal interest. Like all news, anything critical can be harshly judged for interfering with the status quo; and the landscape is littered with forgotten attempts at replacing true interest. Some who have or do make a mark include: Flayrah, Culturally F’d, Furrymedia, Fur Media, Furry.Today, InFurNation, Gaming Furever, and Furry Stammtische. (Check the Furry News twitter list.) Thanks to all guests, Patrons, and helpers. Check our banner gallery to see all the artists who have helped us. For more about what Dogpatch Press does and why, here’s a long Q&A. 

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