Funny because most folks I see on Barq are canines and Felines.
I know only one otter, it’s up in Seattle, though I see a few in vr meetups. The majority of my friends scattered around the country are wolves and foxes, with a handful of domestic dogs. Strong dragon showings in vr meetups (they are, according to at least one probably outdated source, mostly transgender by volume).
There’s like almost no tigers though. We’re pretty rare.
Not just anyone can handle that much power
i used to think sea dragons were cool when i was a kid maybe i should make a sea dragon fursona
DO ITTTTT
Indiana full of holster-sniffing losers: checks out
German Sheppard fursonas have nearly the exact implications you’d think too. There might be some exceptions especially amongst older furries but if someone is in their 30s or below with one I stay the fuck away.
Copfucker furries are so weird
Zootopia did a number on some people
there should be more belgian malanois furries instead of german shepherds
Huskies are cute, smart, have a lot of personality, and make funny noises. i think i get it. though a shitty part of me wonders how much they correspond with like… white liberals lol. just based on the distribution
likewise, and again this is not well founded: how many of the dragons coming mostly from trans girls in states where it’s mostly chill to be trans (like MA)
anecdotally i’d have guessed VT to be fox-heavy
what i mostly wanna know is Why is Colorado SKUNK HQ 
any theories are welcome!!
CU Boulder was our flagship college and is also in Boulder, which has always been a weed town, and we have a couple other decent colleges as well + a generally libertarian reputation, so skunk might just be a weed thing. Our other major tourist attraction is skiing-snowboarding, mountain towns also have a weed reputation… it’s a bit of a stretch but it could tip the scales if it was naturally close already.
see i wanted to guess it was a weed thing but then i’d expect NorCal and VT to be less canidpilled i need to see a breakdown by county
like no way does CA have that many wolves by volume
legend has it that if you stand still on Four Corners during a full moon that you’ll turn into the legendary Huskybunny Skunkfox
colorado had legal weed first so the skunky aroma permeated the psyche of the state
yeah again that was my guess but i lived in Humboldt County for a few years and none of the fuckers i hung out with acted very skunky
I think it’s cute that you can kind of tell when you’re “really in New England” by the popularity of dragons apparently…based on my experience, I would guess that the reason is not just because that’s a relatively safe part of the country to be trans in overall, but also because people who tend sort of geeky there often go in the direction of like, colorful-wireframe-glasses/blond-ponytail/cat-shirt-and-jeans regardless of gender, somehow neopagan and maybe with jewelry that indicates this, queer in some sense (gender or otherwise) and often nonmonogamous, etc., and for whatever reason I feel like people of that ilk also tend to have strong feelings about dragons (although they often keep either longhair cats, rodents, bunnies, or ferrets as pets). If they’re not neopagan, they’re probably atheist, hold communist and/or anarchist political views, are good at Linux, and frequent a MUSH, with all else being equal. Maybe I’m generalizing too much from various friends of mine, but somehow I feel like I met lots of people with this kind of vibe there, and I feel like, of all the people who fall under a sort of broad sort of geeky umbrella there, this particular cohort is probably the most furry out of all. I’ve never been to Washington State but based on what I’ve gleaned about it at a distance I wonder if the context around the popularity of dragons there is kind of similar in atmosphere.
I remember that werewolf ppm for quake 2, there were two other wolf models for q2, I can find evidence for one of them existing (though no good screenshots) but the other one is completely gone (unless I start going through archived versions of polycount when it was still a planetquake subdomain, then I’d probably find it again)
…that’s a lot to take in
