If you love mice, I suggest you skip this entry.
So, I caught my little guest. The one that had been leaving little droppings in my kitchen. He was a clever one, more so than I thought. Turns out he was too big to fit in the small trap, so that's why he didn't fall for that. He wasn't too small for the big metal no-kill trap, though. Instead, somehow he was able to steal the bait off the plate without triggering the trap. That thing was licked clean! I don't know how he managed it; I
Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag. Guest posts welcome. Tips: patch.ofurr@gmail.com. Fred Patten’s birthday was December 11 – Happy 75th, Fred! Read an interview with Fred about the founding of Furry fandom, by esteemed novelist Phil Geusz. Thanks Fred for bringing so much content that keeps Dogpatch Press the only source for a long Furry News […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats, by Mary E. Lowd. Dallas, TX, FurPlanet Productions, September 2015, trade paperback $9.95 (131 pages), Kindle $6.99. This collection of 13 cat short stories by Mary E. Lowd contains nine reprints and four original tales. It also contains all of […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Mad Dogs and Englishmen, by Paul Magrs. London, BBC Books, January 2002, paperback £5.99 (249 pages). Doctor Who is massively popular, but his adventures do not seem to offer much for furry fandom. But they do overlap in “The 100th Novel in the Record-Breaking BBC Worldwide […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. “Here is another of my reviews that was published ten years ago, edited in a manner that I didn’t like. This is my original review, so it’s a bit different from the printed version.” The Cat, by Pat Gray. Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, UK, Dedalus Ltd., March 1997, […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Koa of the Drowned Kingdom, by Ryan Campbell. Illustrated by Cooner. Dallas, TX, FurPlanet Productions, September 2015, trade paperback $9.95 (146 pages), electronic edition $6.99. Koa of the Drowned Kingdom is the tenth of FurPlanet’s “cupcakes”; novellas instead of novels. It seems at one point to […] View the full article
Mice! In my kitchen! They left droppings on my sink! XC Time to disinfect it again!
Augh! I knew I had some of the little pests. There was a brief presence when the first cold spell of winter hit. I put out my usual no kill trap, baited with my tried-and-true choice: butter and peanut butter. This has been successful in the past, but this time they didn't fall for it. Shorty after that, all signs of them disappeared. I left the trap out just in case, but it caught nothing. But they're back.
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame. Frontispiece by Graham Robertson. London, Methuen & Company, October 1908, hardcover 6/- ([vi] + 302 + [ii] pages). The Wind in the Willows is world-famous today. It was almost immediately world-famous. President Theodore Roosevelt praised it in 1909. […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. College Catastrophe, by Jan. Illustrated. Hong Kong, Tiger Knight Comics, November 2012, trade paperback, $12.95 (unpaged [127 pages]), e-book $3.95. This is the collection of the online comic strip that Jan (this book gives away his real name as Chun Yan Miu) published from November 2000 […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Originally written for Quentin Long’s Anthro Magazine. The Doorman, by Reinaldo Arenas. Translated from the Spanish by Dolores M. Koch. NYC, Grove Weidenfeld, June 1991, hardcover 0-8021-1109-2 $17.95 (191 pages). Reinaldo Arenas was a young Cuban novelist known for both novels of “magical realism” and a […] View the full article
Every community has its crimes. This story is not unusual in that way. It’s just sad in a human way. This small subculture has suffered at least a handful of murder stories – mostly on the victim side. This week, there’s word going around that an especially deadly mass shooting in California took a friend of the community. […] View the full article
Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag. Guest posts welcome. Tips: patch.ofurr@gmail.com. Friend of the community lost in mass shooting in San Bernardino CA. (Tip: Bosn Otter.) The tragedy on December 2 is described as terrorism-related, and left 14 dead and 21 injured. Bosn said Dan Kaufman was “a friend to the furry community… a friend […] View the full article
I have found a successful caffeine replacement for my Coke Zero: V8 VFusion + Energy! Honestly, I thought it would taste like crap, but it was the only caffeinated drink that wasn't a soda or an energy drink loaded with way too much energy/caffeine. Much to my surprise it tastes pretty good, even for awful sounding combinations like pomegranate blueberry. As far as caffeine, it has more than most diet sodas, but still less than an average cup of coffee, so I can have it with dinner (as I did wit
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Part 1 can be found here. The Mrs. Murphy series by Rita Mae Brown is another animal crime series where the animals actively detect, rather than just tag along with the human amateur detective while she (it’s invariably a woman) solves the mystery. The Mrs. Murphy […] View the full article
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. “Here is another old review, fixed up the way that it should be published.” Odyssey from River Bend, by Tom McGowen. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, April 1975, hardcover $5.95 (ix + 166 pages). This was a minor children’s/Young Adult fantasy in 1975, but it is […] View the full article
A three part series: 1) The beginning of mascots and fursuiting. 2) Fursuiting crossover with pro sports. 3) The National Mascot Hall of Fame. Mascot art, business, culture, and a Hall of Fame to celebrate it all. Let’s peer into the strange, distant futureworld of 2017. How much respect do mascots get? Enjoying them might earn noogies from jocks, who treat them […] View the full article
Edmonton Oil Kings hockey halftime show, January 2015. A three part series: 1) The beginning of mascots and fursuiting. 2) Fursuiting crossover with pro sports. 3) The National Mascot Hall of Fame. Some good examples of fursuiting crossover with pro sports. First, I have to admit not knowing a lot about commercial mascotting. But here’s some quick comparison. You can […] View the full article
The National Mascot Hall of Fame is coming in 2017. This mainstream event might deserve attention from furries. Will they catch benefits with millions of investment and hype? Sci-fi costuming and mascots probably developed separately. But some fursuiting is showing up in pro sports, Anthrocon had the San Diego Chicken as Guest Of Honor, and a mascot was a viral sensation of the 2015 Super […] View the full article
