OMFG! i think my daughter is furry.

[OddeoFreq]

Are the signs there or am i being over reacting/ optimistic?


my 6 year old daughter, not only does not like cartoons where the main characters are not animals, she only really ever draws animals. favorite toys, Littlest pet shop. for what its worth, her grandmother had a psychic reading done and was told that my daughter would be really close to animals in some way when she grows up. the other day she found out dog's old collar and wanted to wear it. and today i found her drawing animal heads on human bodies. None of which has been influenced by anything i have shown her about furries because i haven't.

is it just me or at this rate, my daughter is going to grow up to be just as furry as me?

here in lies the issue. my wife is not anti furry, but she had her first impression of them forever ruined by misinterpretation. She once, years before she met me, read a news article about someone who was abducting children by posing as a giant cuddly bear. thus is her first impression of furries. she knows that not all furries are like that and she is slowly but progressively trying to remove that first impression from her mind in an effort to accept me for being a furry. [BG info: me and my wife got together in Nov'04. i have done ALOT of finding myself while with her. i didnt realize i was a furry until nov'11 and have since been trying to participate in the fandom.]

due to my wife not being fully comfortable with the idea of furries yet, (not to mention my wife's very closed minded and discriminating/judgmental mother-in-law who only lives a few blocks away and is a part of our lives on a regular basis), I am forbidden to introduce her and share anything to encourage her to get into the fandom with me because my wife says i have that power. i agree. if my daughter wants to get into the fandom, i want it to be because that what she likes. not because its what her dad likes.

she was told not to wear the collar again and i am not permitted to even talk about furries in front of her let alone show/wear my ears and tail when she is home.

My wife thinks all her animal stuff is just a phase.

what do you think?
advice?
comments?  

[Kairo Yakazu]

Fairly certain it's a phase myself, considering I went through a phase when all I'd do was eat potatoes and ketchup. >_> Phases always inhabit the strangest possible things, or in this case, ironic possible thing, but don't instinctively assume something with only a minute basis. I've done that plenty of times before and I've ended up in a position where I could only be more wrong if I had strangled a baby. My advice is to let her do as she wants, not as you want, because, even though you would like her to be furry, you'll always subconsciously be impacting her anytime you interact with her. Try to look at it as being a father first and a furry second rather than both at the same time.

On a different note, your mother-in-law is damn happy that it's you instead of me. If she is really that belligerently judgmental and phobic, I would be so out about it around her that there would be hairballs in her shoes and a litterbox strangely in need of constant changes. :3  

[Ask Jappleack]

according to epigenetics, this is quite possible. habits can be inherited to a degree. They dont know what degree yet, the opposition says its social influences like subtle or obvious behavior differences that they can pick up that causes them to obtain the habits of their parents, but this was done in mice studies also, so Im fairly certain the child could be furry.

but if u are behaving slightly like an animal then she could pick up on that as kids are quick learners.  

[OddeoFreq]

Kairo Yakazu

Fairly certain it's a phase myself, considering I went through a phase when all I'd do was eat potatoes and ketchup. >_> Phases always inhabit the strangest possible things, or in this case, ironic possible thing, but don't instinctively assume something with only a minute basis. I've done that plenty of times before and I've ended up in a position where I could only be more wrong if I had strangled a baby. My advice is to let her do as she wants, not as you want, because, even though you would like her to be furry, you'll always subconsciously be impacting her anytime you interact with her. Try to look at it as being a father first and a furry second rather than both at the same time.

On a different note, your mother-in-law is damn happy that it's you instead of me. If she is really that belligerently judgmental and phobic, I would be so out about it around her that there would be hairballs in her shoes and a litterbox strangely in need of constant changes. :3

those are my intentions. i just get anxious at the thought of the benefits if she was. daddy daughter furry outings and whatnot.  

[Xennified]

I think it's a bit early to assume anything. I mean, I LOVED stuff like the land before time and fox and the hound when I was younger, fair enough I did end up being a furry eventually but I think it's pretty normal for kids to like cartoons with animals in more.
My little brother went through a phase of eating cat food and purring but I doubt he's going to grow up to even know what furries are lmao  

[00Shoe]

Xennified

I think it's a bit early to assume anything. I mean, I LOVED stuff like the land before time and fox and the hound when I was younger, fair enough I did end up being a furry eventually but I think it's pretty normal for kids to like cartoons with animals in more.
My little brother went through a phase of eating cat food and purring but I doubt he's going to grow up to even know what furries are lmao

Catfood? Gross...  

[Rowan of Kasai]

Sounds like me when I was a kid. I think I've always been a furry inside, though around where I live people only believe furries to be people who are into bestiality.

I remember always drawing animals instead of people and I mean Disney was an influence as well. The Lion King was and still is my favorite animated film and I watch a lot of cartoons on tv with animal characters and in anime I love the anthros and part animal people.

Im married and my husband isnt really accepting but does know that I like furries to some extent. But hey, he still loves me and doesnt care all that much. My own mother and mother-in-law would not understand why I like them.  

[Xennified]

00Shoe

Xennified

I think it's a bit early to assume anything. I mean, I LOVED stuff like the land before time and fox and the hound when I was younger, fair enough I did end up being a furry eventually but I think it's pretty normal for kids to like cartoons with animals in more.
My little brother went through a phase of eating cat food and purring but I doubt he's going to grow up to even know what furries are lmao

Catfood? Gross...

Yeah but this was when he was still crawling, he ate a lot of weird stuff hahaha.  

[X-Yami-no-Ko-X]

00Shoe

Xennified

I think it's a bit early to assume anything. I mean, I LOVED stuff like the land before time and fox and the hound when I was younger, fair enough I did end up being a furry eventually but I think it's pretty normal for kids to like cartoons with animals in more.
My little brother went through a phase of eating cat food and purring but I doubt he's going to grow up to even know what furries are lmao

Catfood? Gross...

My sister would eat dog treats.

Onto the main topic at hand, what's she's doing right now doesn't mean that she's a furry. I know people that used to do the same things but aren't furries themselves. And just because someone is close to animals doesn't mean they are too. A friend of mine feels really close to dogs and prefers them over people most of the time.
And as for the art, that still shows up outside of the fandom. I mean take a look at Egyptian mythology and cynocephaly.