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August 22, 2024
ZOOPHILES FACE JAIL AND FURY: Adam Britton, Lucas VanWoert, and Seattle’s Slightly Furry
by Patch O'Furr
(Content warning.)
Three stories with one cause
It was a major week of news for activists against animal abuse, especially the kind that comes from zoophile networking.
AUSTRALIA: Adam Britton was once a prominent zoologist, but now he’s a convicted serial killer of pet dogs. International media featured Britton’s August 8 sentence to 10 years in jail. Outside the court, activists protested for better animal protection, followed by a unity walk with Kiki’s Justice, an awareness campaign named for one of Britton’s victims. The worldwide shock of the case is documentary-worthy.
OHIO: Britton’s online accomplice was Lucas Vanwoert, a truck driver, furry and dog torture-killer. His wife Heather VanWoert was convicted for participating in the crimes, but released in May after a short sentence. It’s a wake-up call about abusers in the furry community. Many furries oppose abuse, but are troubled by how others enable lovers, friends or business partners involved.
SEATTLE: furry brand Slightly Furry brews cider, runs a taphouse, and has an owner named “Kompy” involved in zoophile networking. Watchdogs aired evidence at the same time as Slightly Furry ran a crowdfund and raised over $73,000 from donors to support their for-profit business. Slightly Furry refuses to respond about Kompy’s corruption — except by censoring and banning people who ask questions. Why do they refuse to explain this to the community, after taking so much support and calling their business an ambassadorship of furry to the general public? What will stop the enabling, after Pacific Northwest furries already faced exposure of a shocking abuse ring?
July 10, 2024
Fur & Loathing podcast concludes, expect more Furry True Crime reporting to come
by Patch O'Furr
Listen to Fur and Loathing here.
Here’s a wrap-up for the investigation of the Midwest Furfest 2014 chemical attack, by Nicky Woolf with help from Dogpatch Press. For the last episode, we recorded discussion of these points (although not all made the final cut…)
- Being a community under attack.
- The limits of the justice system, and how people can get away with crime, even if we know it.
- The need for community protection from inside.
- It can also take resources and reach we don’t have by partnership with outside help.
- Without public awareness and being fully informed, negligence can cause more harm.
- How different could things be if we had more transparency 10 years ago?
REVIEW: “Fur and Loathing is so fucking good.” – Podcast Promise
June 23, 2024
How to join San Francisco Pride 2024 with the Northern California Furries
by Patch O'Furr
For members who completed an RSVP
Photo by Heather
The San Francisco Pride Parade is Sunday, June 30, 2024 — General info at SFpride.org
The biggest outdoor furry event of the year is back for Northern California. Don’t miss this huge party and statement of progress for LGBT people and allies. ABC7 will broadcast the parade to watch from home, while hundreds of thousands of people line the street from 10:30 a.m. until late afternoon.
The NorCal Furries will march on Market Street, for a mile to the end near the Celebration area at Civic Center. Over 200 are expected to come and be loved more than ever, after being shortlisted for a Best Contingent award last year. They have been in the parade for over 20 years (see the Pride tag). This year they have an after-party at their own club for the first time. Here’s how to participate!
JOINING THE GROUP — RSVP here
If you don’t RSVP, you can’t be guaranteed a spot and may be turned away, so join now!
- Telegram event chat group: The live connection to everyone and best place to get help.
- Telegram off-topic chat group: For talk that isn’t crucial for the event.
- Donations are still accepted: Help pay for the float, because volunteers work hard to make this.
- Volunteers are still welcome (message a group mod).
June 13, 2024
Furry Studies academic conference to launch October 18, 2024 in Rotterdam, Netherlands
by Patch O'Furr
Dutch furry fandom is spawning the Otterdam Furry Arts Festival, a public event celebrating furry culture and art. Part of the festival is a conference to connect academics, researchers, and community members for multi-field learning and presenting. It will happen physically and online, and you don’t have to be professional to contribute.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — send proposals for work you can present at the event or online — DEADLINE IS JUNE 24, 2024
June 4, 2024
Fur And Loathing podcast: Exclusive bonus video with listener questions, Hazmat expert doc.
by Patch O'Furr
The first four episodes of Fur and Loathing are HERE (six episodes are coming out weekly.)
Before Episode 5 comes out, here’s a surprise bonus episode. This mid-series break is making time for the investigation team to develop new leads that emerged after the series began.
Patch interviews Nicky, and pitches him listener questions about investigating the 2014 Midwest Furfest chemical attack. This Dogpatch Press exclusive video is 20 minutes longer than the official half hour audio edit published everywhere else. (In the extra run time, you can hear about another attempt to disrupt the con… Video transcript below).
June 3, 2024
The Crying Nazifur: Swatting and career loss makes Casey Hoerth regret his Altfurry hate group.
by Patch O'Furr
On Youtube, founder of Altfurry admits it was for “Radicalizing mentally unstable people” — leading to swatting each other — Video below.
Casey “Len Gilbert” Hoerth lives with his parents in Texas, and used to be a freelance financial blogger for mainstream sites. It was the closest thing he had to a real job or creative outlet, despite trying to publish an embarrassing erotic furry Nazi novel called The Furred Reich.
Casey’s fandom for 1940’s Nazi Germany would lead him to fall in love with modern neo-nazis. This fueled his ambition to use furry fandom as a doormat for alt-right hate politics. While supporting friends at the deadly torchlight Unite The Right riot in 2017, Casey gathered fellow trolls in a fringe of hate groups called Altfurry. His plan was to groom new recruits with redpilling for “revenge based guerilla tactics.”
May 20, 2024
Fur And Loathing podcast episode 3 names suspects in Midwest Furfest 2014 chemical attack
by Patch O'Furr
COMING SOON: Exclusive Q&A with show host Nicky Woolf. Message @patchofurr on Telegram to join.
May 20, 2024: The third episode of Fur and Loathing is HERE (six episodes are coming out weekly.)
This Furry True Crime podcast series is a lavishly produced investigation into the unsolved 2014 chemical attack on Midwest Furfest. Episodes 1 and 2 covered the crime and scene. It promised exclusive never-reported news. Here it is in episode 3. Names are named.
Changa listened to the new episode of Fur & Loathing podcast out today 😆 https://t.co/nSjMSHUBHV pic.twitter.com/w0UmIDU9QX
— Dogpatch Press (@DogpatchPress) May 20, 2024
May 20, 2024
San Francisco Pride 2024 is coming, Northern California Furries need volunteers and funding
by Patch O'Furr
RSVP HERE to join the Norcal Furries in the 54th Annual San Francisco Pride Beacon of Love Parade.
On Sunday, June 30th, 2024, supporters for queer history and liberation will pack the city. It will be an amazing day for street fursuiting with a roaring crowd. Furries have over 20 years of fierceness in the parade, and last year we were runners-up for the Best Contingent award. This year we’re reaching even higher.
NEW private club party for furries!
For the first time, we have an entire club reserved for our own afterparty! The club can hold 400 and is walkable from the start and end of the parade.
Volunteers urgently needed, can you help?
The NorCal Furries bring 100-200 members led by a small team of volunteers. We can’t do it without you. Volunteering is a good introduction for newcomers, and it’s low effort and just as fun in the parade. We need to keep asking until enough heroes raise their paws, and it has to happen early. Contacts below, PLEASE REACH OUT!
May 13, 2024
Midwest Furfest 2014 chemical attack: Fur And Loathing podcast Episode 2 at scene of the crime
by Patch O'Furr
May 13, 2024: The second episode of Fur and Loathing is HERE (six episodes are coming out weekly.)
The 2014 chemical attack on Midwest Furfest was one of the largest in American history. 19 people were hospitalized. Nobody was charged and the case went cold. 10 years later, never-before-reported findings are here in this Furry True Crime podcast with journalist Nicky Woolf.
In the new Episode 2, Nicky visits Midwest Furfest and traces events in the 2014 police report, gaining unexpected insight. He gets immersed in furry culture with an insider guide, then introduces a complication that stalled the case. Until now.
Last week’s launch announcement had an exclusive interview for Dogpatch Press with Nicky and Patch O’Furr. A reader requested the transcript below. Come back for surprising developments in upcoming episodes.
TRANSCRIPT: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – lightly edited for clarity from the video