I very recently up sticks and left the furry fandom. It's okay if you don't want to get too socially involved with them. As in, you just wanna have a character, maybe look at art on FurAffinity or something... You can't really define what 'furry' is, as it's different for everyone. I'm probably going to repeat what other's have said, but I'm going to voice my honest opinion. From what I've gained having been in that storm of a fandom. Furries are either; 1. Fursuiter : Spend ridiculous amounts of money on a suit to wear to 'furmeets' (Admittedly, I was one of those) 2. Artist: Delves into drawing either full on animal characters, or anthro (animal with human characteristics). I'd say about 50% of the time it's porn. 3. Have some form of 'lol I was a wolf in my past life so I'm going to make every living day pretending to be one' 4. Generally desperate people who change their gender just to 'get action'. Almost every furry has a 'fursona'. Sort of like how us Bronies have our own pony OC. For example, mine was a blue/grey koala: If I'm completely honest, there's only a few routes you can go down being a 'furry'. A. End up on the wrong side of the fandom full of the sort of socially awkward people you should really NEVER mingle with. B. Casually browse, like a bit of art, draw a bit of art. whatever. C. Be a therian. 4. ...well, yeah. some seem to just live off 'yiffing'. I'd stay away from that side if I were you. But that's my personal opinion. I took a wiiiide step away from furries for the right reasons. Lost a hell of a lot of friends in the process. But hey, I have Bronies now, and as far as I've seen, Bronies seem to have standards :B EDIT: Whilst I'm at it, I've noticed a lot of fursuit bashing xD Erm. There's only a small minority of fursuiters who use suits for the wrong reasons... or don't know how to keep suits clean. I've mingled with a lot of UK fursuiters and most of them knew/know how to look after their suit. So, it's only the unhygenic people that tend to not bathe and fabreeze/clean their suit after use. My suit, that I'm TRYING to sell... xD