Vallium Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 When I was a kid I had a fennec fox phase, then a husky phase. (Of course I suppose some people never leave these phases, LOOKING AT YOU @george99g @LadyRadarEars @Zaraphayx ), there was a bat phase in the mix. ...but then I returned to my one true love the Wolf. ....then suddenly otters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDingo Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 I think most kids are encouraged to have a favourite animal, because as a child you're encouraged to regurgitate shit like that for whenever adults prod you and ask. For me, it was the Giant Panda for practically no reason whatsoever But it prompted my family to take me and my brother on trips to Berlin and Edinburgh Zoos to see them. So I was grateful, kept my mouth shut and never told them I wasn't actually panda mad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissFleece Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 I grew up around horses. My mom really pushed me to be a tomboy horse girl like she was as a kid, and I happily was until my mid-teens after a bad horse related accident. After that and a trauma event that includes all 20+ of the horses in our care (we worked at a rescue) being siezed, we lost our job/truck/phone/living situation in the same day. We lived in a horse stall at the local fair grounds for 2 weeks because we were friends with the racehorse people, they didn't snitch and we went to Florida. I lost all my will to be around horses, I hated them with all my heart. My mom tried to fix it, she bought me a baby Florida cracker mustang to train myself. I had always talked how I wanted to train a horse from start to finish using Monty Roberts training techniques such as join-up Eventually I put my petty life problems aside to care for her and train her. Unfortunately she had a bad illness happen(we think it was rabies, all tests for other illnesses came back negative) and had residual motor control issues, so she can't be ridden. That's fine by me, she will be in my care until she dies. She's 7 and pregnant for the first(and probably only) time. She's due in February, and part of only 140> brood mares of her breed to exist in the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fennecbyte Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 49 minutes ago, WolfNightV4X1 said: Of course I suppose some people never leave these phases, LOOKING AT YOU @george99g @LadyRadarEars @Zaraphayx Thinking that fennec foxes are just a phase... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 i was obsessed with animals in general. mostly reptiles, cats, and seals, but especially reptiles. go figure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomris Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 Not necessarily obsessed, but gosh dern it if I don't like looking at pics of foxes. Makes me feel all giddy inside. Especially the arctic ones, in a jumping motion. As to where that came from? I don't even have any idea, guess a lot of little things helped that idea along. The snow, the cunning nature and the goofiness sure helped with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyRadarEars Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 Had a wolf phase since forever, even once had one of those horrible off-color wolfsonas that some furries never seem to grow out of, then it became red foxes (blame star fox :V) and then fennecs because smolfoxbestfox. I still have wolf(ish) characters, like my Aurora, though. I also do still like huskies/wolves. Canines/Vulpines > Felines > Other mammals > Scalies and if you believe differently you're a heretic :3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naesaki Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 I've always had a bit of an obsession with Bears, Wolves and Owls. Bears, I've always loved stuffed animals. Teddy Bears being the favourite, still have one I got as a present from my grandmother. I identify as a bear build / lgbt wise, so that probably counts somewhere... :L Wolves I've just always found really fascinating and interesting animals.I'm a natural dog person as well so that kind of connects. As for Owls, I got that obsession from my mum >__> The amount of figurines and owl plushes she owns is mind boggling 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vallium Posted November 21, 2016 Author Share Posted November 21, 2016 3 hours ago, DrDingo said: I think most kids are encouraged to have a favourite animal, because as a child you're encouraged to regurgitate shit like that for whenever adults prod you and ask. For me, it was the Giant Panda for practically no reason whatsoever But it prompted my family to take me and my brother on trips to Berlin and Edinburgh Zoos to see them. So I was grateful, kept my mouth shut and never told them I wasn't actually panda mad. Well that kinda sucks, I was mainly referring to my phases of obsession which I learned of and had all my own and wasnt prompted by anyone, but I still very much liked the animals, still do... Pandas are still great animals, though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falaffel Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 no. I thought lizards and birds were cool, but no where near obsession. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osrik Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 I don't think I was ever really obsessed with any animals as a kid; I liked dinosaurs and puffins quite a bit, but in terms of obsession that was more the case with things like Star Wars, the Roman Empire, and WW2. For the past few years, I have had somewhat of an obsession with corvids, but it is mostly with their intelligence, though I also like them in general. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrishaCat Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 I've never had any strong interest in animals. They just kind of...exist. Cats are cool though. And pet chihuahuas are fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlerock Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 I've drawn dragons and monsters since I could feckin hold a pen. Birds are cool, dinosaurs are neat, dinoburds are awesome! But I'm actually a cat person, always have been. I grew up with them, have several at the moment, TNR'd a few local colonies of ferals, worked with the colonies and homed a few, raised abandoned infant litters, etcetera ad nauseum. Understand them better than I understand most people speaking plain English. Cats are good™. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glowing Glass Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 Sneks r qt I used to love snakes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snagged Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 I don't think I've ever had an obsession over an animal at any point in my life or even a favorite animal. I do favor canines and felines (and recently fennecs. Thanks @george99g and @LadyRadarEars) nowadays but nowhere near at a level of an obsession 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxon Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 I was obsessed with butterflies and moths as a child. I wanted to be a lepidopterist when I was older and I implored my parents to dress me as a butterfly for my birthday parties. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaraphayx Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 No. I just like dog reaction images because dogs own. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lopaw Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 I went through many obsessions. I was mostly into dragons in school, then gryphons after playing the hell out of a highly obscure RTS called magic and mayhem. Hearing how badass they sounded in that game prompted me to make a gryphon character when I was 15 or so who I haven't drawn for ages. After I went through a brief kitsune phase and made a character out one of those. I then got exposed to the furry fandom by someone at the first (crappy) college I went to. Drew baldly on paper a scantly clad anthro cougar before I could draw cats heads properly in a brief cat phase that ended with me drawing a god awful digital drawing of the same. The paper drawing was later torn up and flushed down the toilet when I left so that nobody would know about it. After that I decided to try learning adobe illustrator and managed after much fighting with its UI (being way harder than photoshop) to draw a anthro weasel (later called Frensel) after looking up this military thing called wild weasel on wikipedia and having the phrase stick in my head, the combat theme and style fitting him perfectly. As a result of it I am a mustelid fan and gryphon fan with a small amount of dragon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xaende Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Whether reading about them in books, watching them on TV, seeing them in the zoo, or caring for them as pets, I've always liked animals. Along with dogs, house cats, hamsters, hermit crabs, salamanders etc., I've also been fascinated with wolves, bears, beavers, owls, and pallas cats. It's hard to say which were phases vs. simply animals that I like or was into at the time, but I do know that I occasionally annoyed other kids by talking too much about whatever my current animal of interest happened to be. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feverish Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 I've always been a huge fan of animals and still am. At one point I really loved penguins but last year when I was trying to make a sona I found out how cool jackals were and here I am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaspers Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 The animal obsession of mine is one of the things I can remember clearly from primary and secondary school. One factor that makes it so memorable was the eternal debate of "Cats or dogs" that divided people into opposing groups - and I was one of the people who used to get super mad when people considered dogs better. I also used to draw a lot of animals in all of my notebooks that evolved into inadequate anthro sketches at some point. I had no idea about furries though, just that I now enjoyed drawing odd human-shaped animals. Animals have always been and still are one of my favorite topics to talk about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aouzy Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 I had an insect obsession for the longest time. Mostly with bees and ants. It wasn't until I got internet I started really liking animals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 It's rather the obsession with the eye candies that are cartoons of all sorts that I'm stuck with. Does it ever go away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 I was obsessed with jellyfishes once I was obsessed with jellyfishes once I was obsessed with jellyfishes once Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 I was obsessed with jellyfishes once I was obsessed with jellyfishes once Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hux Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 I was obsessed with watching the Nietzschean untermensch go about their debauchery as I watched from my ivory pulpit. #SmarterHux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 when i was like, i had an obsession with dolphins, when I was about 12 this changed to wolves. I also used to visit the zoo at least once a week. nowadays, I have an obsession with scotland, but that's not an animal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. L Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 That depends. I may have been considered obsessed with cats. However those are cats the animal. Personally, my love for cats and my furry life are very seperate things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mousey Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 I used to love wolves more than anything, but after getting a pet mouse I think my current obsession is rodents (especially mice) with canines being a close second. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jtrekkie Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 When I was a kid I was quite enamored with birds, snakes, and lizards. I guess I still am, though not as much.| And the ducks. Oh, the ducks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shex Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 On 11/27/2016 at 4:09 PM, Motivated Mouse said: I used to love wolves more than anything, ... Same, I had an intense wolf phase, I loved everything and bought anything with a wolf on it, was a pretty short time though, maybe a good year or something. I don't think I have an obsession anymore, I just love many different animals, but just on a normal level ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeke Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 I did go through an animal obsession phase to the point I volunteered at a zoo. I got to pet a tiger. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vallium Posted November 29, 2016 Author Share Posted November 29, 2016 My wolf phase is a rather permanent fixture at this rate :0 I am a very obsessive person, and generally obsessed with animalkind as a whole 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiy0 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 my statement to this topic is pretty simple. *coughs and raises finger* woof~ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyRadarEars Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 11 hours ago, Zeke said: I did go through an animal obsession phase to the point I volunteered at a zoo. I got to pet a tiger. Maximum jelly no lie right now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuujou Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 I always liked bees and certain other insects, but I didn't obsess over them too hard. Unless watching a bee when I see one for a couple minutes and feeding the occasional tired bumble bee in the summer (RARE QnQ) counts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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