Europe's largest Furry convention, Eurofurence, has finally put their homepage online. Usually this happens around Januari, but due to circumstances there were some delays. Recently a German law regarding room prices was put into effect, causing a raise in the con-fee. More about this you can find here. The opening of the registration system has been announced: Saturday, Februari 13th at 20:00 C.E.T (11:00 PST, or 14:00 EST).

Wolfie Blackheart is not an ordinary 18-year-old.

She believes she is a wolf — technically, a werewolf — and so she wears a tail. She also wears a harness in case someone special wants to drag her around. And last week, she used a pocketknife in her kitchen to decapitate a dog — already dead, according to Wolfie — that had been missing since Jan. 5. “I severed the head, boiled the head,” Wolfie said. “People make the mistake of hacking the spine, which will fracture the skull.”

She added, “You also have to put (the head) outside for the brains to leak out.”

Before the teenager carted the cranium to the woods, someone held it up and snapped a photograph of it inside her Northwest Side house — a shot that ended up on the Internet. Within days, the photo had spurred an aggressive animal cruelty investigation by Animal Care Services and the San Antonio Police Department.

(Source: Mysanantonio.com)


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Quentin Long here with good news for people who like ANTHRO, the furzine he edits: The third ANTHROlogy, collecting pretty much everything that showed up in ANTHRO issues 13 through 18, is available… and it’s a *big* puppy! Like, 724 pages’ worth of big. Not only is it the biggest ANTHROlogy yet, it’s the single largest book of *any* kind from ANTHRO Press! And what’s actually in those 724 pages, you ask? *Lots* of stuff, including…

…stories by Michael W. Bard, Bill ‘Hafoc’ Rogers, and plenty of other damn fine authors.
…art by equally skilled creators, like Dark Natasha and Lucius Appaloosius.
…more than 140 pages of Fred Patten’s perceptive reviews.
…interviews with David Lillie, of DREAMKEEPERS fame, and Eddy & Susman, the people who make Sofawolf Press what it is.
…columns which cover an intriguing range of topics, written by Phil Geusz, Wanderer Werewolf, Michael Bard, and Keith Morrison.
…a fascinating article on H. Beam Piper’s FUZZY novels (both Piper’s trilogy, and the sequels by Tuning and Mayhar).
…and *then* some!

Read more at: [link]

Flayrah, one of the furry premier news-sites has gotten a fresh start. Green Reaper, also known for his work on WikiFur has restarted the website. He writes on the site:

Welcome to a new year, with a new editor! Aureth and Frysco have given me the chance to lead Flayrah into the next decade. With your help, I hope to make it the best furry news site ever . . . again! We're now running on Drupal - an altogether more modern framework - with hosting graciously provided by Timduru.

Your previous posts and comments are secure, though you might want to update your account with an avatar and fandom links. I've also brought in some free content from WikiFur News - it makes great reading if you missed it the first time around. (Don't forget to click through where it says "Read more")

Read more on Flayrah

Dutchfurs.com wishes you a grand 2010!

Wanted on drug dealing charges, Alfred Hightower skipped the country after a warrant was issued for his arrest. But he didn't stop playing World of Warcraft and that's how police caught him. The Howard County Sheriff's Department in Indiana discovered that Hightower, was a big fan of some "warlock and witches game", eventually piecing together that it was World of Warcraft.

The investigating deputy contacted Blizzard to see if they would help track him down, the Kokomo Perspective reports.

"They don't have to respond to us, and I was under the assumption that they wouldn't," Roberson told the Perspective. "It had been three or four months since I had sent the subpoena. I just put it in the back of my mind and went on to do other things. Then I finally got a response from them. They sent me a package of information. They were very cooperative. It was nice that they were that willing to provide information."

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Roy E. Disney, a longtime senior executive of the company founded by his uncle Walt and father Roy, has died at the age of 79. The Walt Disney Co. announced that Disney died Wednesday in Newport Beach, Calif., after a year-long battle with stomach cancer.

(Source: CBC)


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Baloo the bear, Leo the Lion and Shere Khan the tiger have the most unusual and unlikely friendship between them. Rescued eight years ago during a police drugs raid in Atlanta, Georgia, the three friends were only cubs at the time and barely two months old.
They had been kept as status symbol pets by the drug barons.

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[link] -- the zine proper
[link] -- ANTHRO Press: We got books!
[link] -- Graphic Descriptions: We got posters and
t-shirts and stuff, too!
[link] -- The ANTHRO Mall


Quentin 'Cubist' Long here with three (count 'em, three) special
announcements. One of this trio of news items is about the latest issue of ANTHRO,
of course, but I'll do the other two first, for reasons which should be
clear when you read them. You see, ANTHRO Press has just published two new
books...

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Quentin 'Cubist' Long here, announcing yet another new issue of
ANTHRO. Except that 'yet another' isn't quite accurate, because *this*
issue is the zine's *twenty-fifth*! You can think of it as reaching
the quarter-century mark, or four full years of existence plus the
start of the fifth; either way, there just aren't a lot of furzines
that can lay claim to the milestone of a 25th issue... but ANTHRO is
now a member of that elite group! Should anyone feel like expressing
their appreciation in a concrete manner, the URLs at the top of this
message await you. Alternately, you could donate cash or subscribe to
the zine [ [link] ], or buy some
ANTHRO-recommended furry tales [ [link] ].
At any rate, it's the 25th issue of ANTHRO! And to commemorate the
occasion, we've put together a couple of items slightly beyond the
ordinary.

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