Actually, it's not bad press for the therianthropes, it's bad news for furries. From a post on alt.fan.furry:
This story is in fact a highly distorted story about the australian furry community. Its quite easy to work out who the people are if you know the background. Unfortunity as there are no names given I have no way to confirm my suspisions.
However the whole story isn't told in the artical. The boy moved interstate (to melborn) not to "Be with fellow cult members" but to be with his lover. The main factors in the boy leaving where not furry or lycanthropy but because his perents (espcally his mother who from all accounts is a bit of a fruit cake) didn't accept his homosexaulity.
Actually, it's not bad press for the therianthropes, it's bad news for furries. From a post on alt.fan.furry:
This story is in fact a highly distorted story about the australian furry community. Its quite easy to work out who the people are if you know the background. Unfortunity as there are no names given I have no way to confirm my suspisions.
However the whole story isn't told in the artical. The boy moved interstate (to melborn) not to "Be with fellow cult members" but to be with his lover. The main factors in the boy leaving where not furry or lycanthropy but because his perents (espcally his mother who from all accounts is a bit of a fruit cake) didn't accept his homosexaulity.