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Authorities at Bangkok's international airport arrested a first-class passenger whose suitcases were filled with baby leopards, panthers, a bear and monkeys. The animals had been drugged and were headed for Dubai.

A man who worked as Blackburn Rovers’ Roar the Lion mascot has been charged with sexual offences against children.

Scott Henderson, 22, from Blackburn, was one of several volunteers who dressed up in the Roar costume for Ewood Park games.

He is accused of performing sex acts via a webcam after contacting teenage boys through Facebook.

He is also charged with having pornographic video clips of children.

He was arrested in October and bailed until this week.

Henderson, whose exact address has not been released for legal reasons, was charged on Friday with 10 offences.

They included:

Engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child aged 15 in September last year
Engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child aged 14 between March and April last year
Inciting a boy aged 14 to engage in non-penetrative sexual activity between March and April last year
Inciting a boy aged 15 to engage in non-penetrative sexual activity between March and April last year
Six counts of making indecent photographs of a child between January and May 2010 ranging from SAP levels one, two and four
He has been bailed and will appear before Blackburn Magistrates’ Court on May 31.

Before his arrest, Henderson would appear as the mascot at children’s birthday parties.

He also helped out in an administrative role at the club’s indoor football centre.

He was immediately relieved of his role when the allegations emerged.

A spokesman for Blackburn Rovers confirmed that Henderson no longer had any association with the club.

The Roar the Lion part was filled by a number of people on a rotating basis.

Following the allegations, Rovers ditched the mascot and launched a competition to design a new one.

The Pennsylvania woman who alleged that she was fondled by Donald Duck during a visit to Epcot Center in Florida has settled her lawsuit against Disney, federal court records show.

April Magolon’s complaint, filed last August against Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, was formally dismissed today by Judge John Padova in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. The judicial order came a day after lawyers for the parties reported that the matter had been settled. Magolon’s attorney, Michael Pansini, sought dismissal of the lawsuit “with prejudice,” meaning that the action could not be refiled.

Kidscreen is reporting that Luken Communications, the owner of broadcast channel Retro TV (which currently airs much of the Filmation cartoon library), is partnering with Classic Media to create a new retro-style cartoon network called PB&J. According to the press release:
The 24-hour network, set to launch in the US this summer, will feature Classic Media titles from the 1950s, ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. Those include The Archie’s, Mr. Magoo, The Lone Ranger, Gumby and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. PBJ will be available to broadcasters, cable and satellite providers.

Dorobo men cut and butcher an already dead wildebeest before taking it away.

Time and time again I have seen the accounts of my fellow furs get removed from Facebook. However, I can understand Facebook’s policy of wanting to keep public profiles strictly linked to actual human bodies. It keeps things clean, neat and tidy. Also with modern problems with cyber-bullying, identity theft, sexual predators, trolls and such it seems like a decent policy from a security standpoint.

Facebook, you likely either love it or hate it. The social networking giant seems to have been conducting maintenance on its user accounts for a few years focused on accounts for pets or animals. Mainly this seems to be driven by the network’s security policies to keep users from hiding behind another personality and not showing a profile page.

Whenever the furry fandom comes to light in popular media, it has often become sensationalized. We envision a film that steps beyond the aesthetic spectacle of the community and explores the fandom in more depth. In particular, we are interested in placing this subculture against a social background to examine the “human element” of being furry.
To do this, we will explore the lives of several furries both in and outside of the fandom. We will place a particular emphasis on how “being furry” contributes to identity construction, how the fandom is structured as a community, and how the fandom influences (or is influenced by) mainstream society.

The winners of the tenth annual Ursa Major Awards for the best anthropomorphic/"funny animal" literature and art first published during 2010 have been announced at a presentation ceremony tonight at Morphicon in Columbus, Ohio.

"Hyenas" Movie Story:

Plot Outline:

Roving clans of shape-shifting human/hyena creatures prowl and hunt for human prey. They are hunted by one man seeking revenge for the death of his loved ones.

Overview:

"Hyenas" the movie is an urban legend detailing accounts of human encounters and attacks by a sub-culture of predatory cryptohuman Hyenas. These shape-shifting human-like creatures prowl the rural back roads and forests of North America and have long been thought to exist by Cryptozoologists. Folklore and sightings persist even as mainstream science denies their existence. But these fierce creatures with bone crushing jaws and an appetite for human flesh are real and live up to the fierce reputation of their cousin, the African Spotted Hyena. A dozen snarling, fighting crypto Hyenas can devour an adult human -- skeleton and flesh -- in a matter of minutes.

Three predators living together at Noah's Ark Animal Rehabilitation Center.

When the O’Rourke family of Tucson found a couple of Easter-time bunnies in their back yard, they knew right away that something wasn’t quite right.

There was a reason the mother rabbit abandoned them. Paul O’Rourke realized one bunny they named Joe had no use of his hind legs. Paul and his family helped nurse the bunnies back to health, but then they went one step further to help the paraplegic bunny.

Paul’s son Liam designed and built a small cart for Joe to help him move around a little easier. The red wagon with yellow wheels took some getting used to, but ultimately seemed to improve his mobility.

After Joe and his brother were feeling a bit better, the O’Rourke family took them to a wildlife rescue center.

Fursuiters! Read up! Sounds like a nice upgrade for your suits.

"We covered brainwave-controlled wheelchairs from Japan before, so why not brainwave-controlled cat ears, dubbed Necomimi? The wearer concentrates or sees something interesting and the ears stand up. And when you relax, your decreasing brain activity makes the ears fall down. No, I am not making this up."

A prison guard dog has been fitted with titanium teeth in Australia after losing his real ones.

Axel, from Melbourne, is ready to sink his teeth into any would-be escapees after being fitted with the metal canine teeth.

They were fitted by veterinary dentist David Clarke after Axel shattered his teeth while biting into his bed board.

Dr Clarke said: "So much is spent on training working dogs that it ends up much cheaper to repair a dental problem than retire the dog.

"Prison dogs, police dogs, hunting, quarantine and customs dogs often suffer injuries in the course of their job."

While Axel's terrifying teeth are the result of an accident other dog owners are going to great lengths to ensure their pampered pooches have the perfect 'bite'.

Cosmetic dentistry is growing in popularity amongst dog owners - whether it is to repair a broken tooth or to ensure their show dogs have the whitest, straightest teeth possible.

The producer of the Rochester radio show The Breakfast Buzz contacted our office Wednesday, May 4th asking for information on the Furry Fandom. I had planned on just answering one or two questions, but the producer went ahead and put me on live with the shows morning hosts, Kimberly & Beck.

All of this was off the cuff and not rehearsed. I hope I didn’t embarrass the fandom.

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that he had been changed into an adorable kitten.

The phenomenal success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies inspired a massively popular literary-remix movement. Now Quirk Classics once again charts bold new territory, turning the monster-mash-up formula inside out to infuse Franz Kafka's horrific masterpiece, "The Metamorphosis," with the fuzziest, snuggliest, most adorable creatures possible: kittens!

Gregor Samsa is a humble young man who supports his unemployed parents and teenage sister by working as a traveling fabric salesman. But his life goes strangely wrong in the very first sentence of The Meowmorphosis, when he wakes up late for work and discovers that he has inexplicably become an adorable kitten.

His family must admit that, yes, their son is now OMG so cute—but what good is cute when there are bills to pay? How can Gregor be so selfish as to devote his attention to a ball of yarn? And how dare he jump out the bedroom window to wander through Kafka's literary landscape? Never before has a cat's tale been so poignant, strange, and horrifyingly funny.

You know, I've tried to hit on this furry angle before, when my rants sucked more (Most of them have since been deleted in favor of better ones).

And I came to the terms, with the assistance of a few good friends, that it's simply wrong for me to try to approach it in the manner I have in the past -- namely, trying to push the term "furry" further and further into the abyss of negativity, while distancing people like myself, who enjoy the milder forms of the fandom, from that negativity with terms like "anthro" or whatnot.

If that's still your bag, and you feel like that's how you have to deal with the obvious stereotyping problem that goes on among furries, more power to you -- but I'm gonna reword myself with this rant, and try to say what's really on my mind about the subject, and furthermore do my part to dispel stereotypes rather than hide from them...even though it's going to be like pissing in a sea of piss, and won't change much.


Here's my wager -- you are either going to really like this rant, or really hate it.

Either way, you're gonna...really.

Furry fandom has had more than its fair share of criticism, both from within and without. A Flayrah review of Shawn Keller's "Horrifying Look at the Furries" (2001) notes that Mr. Keller "associated furry with bestiality and pedophilia." A decade later, most of our critics do the same.

But the title was purposely provocative. This may come as a surprise, but I'm not talking about the furry fandom at all. Instead, I'm calling for more criticism of the furry genre.

This piece has three goals: to explain why criticism is needed, what kind of criticism, and finally to offer a few points of criticism as examples.

Heavily armoured hounds — equipped with infrared night-sight cameras — have been used in the past by the top-secret unit.
The war dogs wear ballistic body armour that is said to withstand damage from single and double-edged knives, as well as protective gear which shields them from shrapnel and gunfire.
German Shepherds have been leading the way in SAS raids in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Wearing oxygen masks, the pooches have been trained to jump from aircraft at 25,000ft, before seeking out insurgents in hostile environments.

The 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for graphic novels was awarded to Adam Hines for “Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One,” his tale of an animal-world uprising.

The book, set in a world where animals can talk, chronicles the plight of the furry and feathered souls who chafe under the cruel hand of human dominion. The judges praised “Duncan” as a “powerful, prodigious work about the question of who the world belongs to, with an incredibly strong, original visual and narrative aesthetic.”