Furry Confusion / Webcomics

• Achewood: Dogs are regarded as animals by the characters; see the strip where barking dogs keep Molly and Roast Beef awake, or the one with Ray's "Magreaux Dog." Despite this, dogs have been shown talking on a few occasions. It could be that cats in the Achewood universe simply look down on dogs and refuse to consider them equals, much like in real life. Notably, Roast Beef has a pet dog... but it's an AIBO.
• AGENCY is a Massive Multiplayer Crossover webcomic where all of the characters are Funny Animal mammals from various pre-existing works... with the exception of Pikachu, who acts and is treated like a "normal" mouse by the Funny Animal characters, with D.W. even having an Eek, a Mouse!! reaction to him when he first appears.
• Awkward Zombie:
  • This gem, where the Author Avatar player character is walking a regular dog past a couple of shocked anthropomorphic dog villagers in Animal Crossing, used to be the page picture, and the first sentence of The Rant is the source of the caption.
    So I'm furnishing my little Animal Crossing cottage, right? But I don't know if I'm comfortable with keeping a caged canary (which is a furniture item) in the window when my next-door neighbor is a talking, four-foot-tall robin.
  • And again here. Does Fox McCloud have fox-like digitigrade feet, or simply very hairy but more human-like plantigrade feet? If the former is true, how the heck does he fit them into his boots?
  • Brought up pretty directly here, where Isabelle is rather confused and disturbed at the Duck Hunt dog.
  • Lampshaded here when Roy assumes that Incineroar is an animal-like person similar to the Star Fox characters, only to learn he was really talking to a human-shaped cat.
• In Ayuri, the catlike alien Saye is very surprised by the appearance of Earth cats.
• Variation in Bar D: It's established that all animals exist in both anthropomorphic and non-anthropomorphic varieties... which leads to Vas being bewildered when he sees a human, because he can't even begin to imagine what a non-anthropomorphic human looks like. Shelia's attempt to explain how anthropomorphism works just leads him to believe that humans are "empty shells, devoid of all existence".
• Brawl in the Family:
  • In a strip where Sonic the Hedgehog is rescuing animals trapped in Eggman's robots, one of the freed critters is, much to Sonic's consternation, a perfectly regular, non-anthropomorphic hedgehog.
  • Another strip set in the Animal Crossing universe lamphsades the game's tendency to pair humanoid and regular versions of the same animals when a fish villager visits town and promptly leaves after seeing everyone cheerfully catching, displaying and eating fish. Note that there are no anthropomorphic fish in the franchise, but this kind of thing does very much happen with frog and octopus villagers.
• Cat and Girl: In an early strip, the anthropomorphic eponymous Cat flirts with a non-anthropomorphic cat.
• Alexia (a human) makes a rather nasty faux pas around Thisisa (a raccoon) in this Cats N' Cameras strip. (Warning: The linked comic itself is SFW, but no guarantees about the "funding progress" artwork beside it, which can be anywhere from almost G-rated to NC-17 — click at your own risk. Much of the rest of the comic NSFW.)
• In this Celestia's Servant Interview comic, somepony asks Button Mash how to tame a horse in Minecraft.
• Concession:
  • Artie and Melusine go fishing and then cook their catches for dinner.
    Artie: [about to eat fish and crab with Melusine] This feels weird. It's like I'm about to watch cannibalism.
    Melusine: Dolphins are mammals, Artie.
    Artie: I know! I know. But it's still weird, you know?
    Melusine: You know what's weird? Furries that have dogs for pets. I think that's weirder than anything we do.
  • Also, Joel, an anthropomorphic dog, once had sex with a non-anthropomorphic dog... and Artie will never let him forget it.
• Corgi Quest features anthropomorphic corgis alongside ordinary horses, wolves, eagles, wolverines, dinosaurs, and likely much more. To make matters more confusing, most of the "ordinary" animals appear to be sapient.
• Each strip of Curtailed is based (mostly) on real life, so it doesn't come up much — the people pictured are actually humans that are just drawn as funny animals. That said, here's a rabbit pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
• Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures gleefully plays with this, yes, very much plays with this◊, seriously◊. The artist has explained that there are actually "livestock" animals in the setting along with the normal characters, but there's no reason not to have fun with it. Not to mention, Lorenda is at least part demon. It has also been established that she has a tendency to eat the people who piss her off, which is why Jyrras brought her back to Lost Lake.
• One of the characters in Deer Me is an anthropomorphic poodle who owns a normal poodle who looks just like him.
• Exterminatus Now:
  • It's made clear very soon that regular, non-"furry" chickens exist. However, it also confirmed that "furry" ones exist too, very anthro, very sapient, and very murdered.
  • The creators have said that there were plans to create new nonintelligent animals for the universe, but they never got around to it.
  • Another comic has one character use the Stock Phrase "Do bears shit in the woods?", which leads to a discussion which culminates in, "Also, isn't our boss a bear?"
• In Fruit Incest, Molo and Zeke are both surprised to find cheetahs at the zoo, but never question why none of the other cheetahs are anthropomorphic.
• Jack (David Hopkins): Actually very well avoided. The setting's anthros were originally created experimentally by humans, first just rabbit-people, then, presumably, all species. The reason why we don't see humans in their world is because they killed them all. Non-anthro animals remain exactly as they are for us. There is the strange matter that the furries can interbreed, and become strange mixed-species creatures, yet almost all of them appear to be one pure, unmixed species, most likely due to their origins (human DNA with animal bits spliced in) giving them all a base from which to work.
• The Kenny Chronicles regularly shows regular cats, dogs, mice, and chickens alongside Tarnekis but there seems to be a pretty clear distinction between the two (this comic notwithstanding). Also, in a strip from the sequel comic Ferrets vs. Lemmings, a lemming dresses up a pet ferret like the ferret king.
• Kevin & Kell: Every creature is anthropomorphic, down to the bacteria, and confusion arises on multiple fronts:
  • Some of the insects we see are the size of the main characters, about human sized. Others are tiny, as you would expect from insects. The real confusion sets in when we see examples of both sizes from the same species, like the moths. Similarly, Kevin the rabbit is the same height as his wolf wife Kell, and in fact a lot broader than she is.
  • Averted when it comes to meat as it's established from the start that the meat does come from other anthropomorphic animals. Of course, this leads to Carnivore Confusion. The morality of carnivorous people is a recurring and major in- and out-of-universe issue. Apparently, it's alright for them to kill herbivores, even though they're quite sapient. In fact, the one of the main foci of the strip is carnivores and herbivores getting involved in relationships, to the point that the eponymous characters are a married carn/herb couple — and yet there's no problem that Kell's job is to kill massive amounts of herbivores.
    • Apparently murder is acceptable as long as it's part of the natural preying process (the incident that granted everything sapience is pointedly established as having done nothing for morality). This means that predator species can, literally, get away with murder, while the same act is criminal for prey species. Kevin's father is in prison for killing a carnivore (which admittedly gave him a badass cred). No one seems to think this is unfair, either.
    • Further complicating the issue is that it's been established that plants are also sapient, and only separated from animals by a language barrier that can fairly be overcome with technological aid. By definition, there is no possible way for any animal in the setting to feed without eating another person.
• Las Lindas eventually explains that their anthros are aliens that happen to resemble earth animals, but before that revelation, it's shown that one of the two cow-anthro characters runs a milk factory, and the other runs a dairy farm. To add to the confusion, no non-anthro cows and almost no non-anthro animals have been shown.
• Implied by Lucid Spring. In this world, the only difference between a sapient animal and an "animalistic" one — an Empty — is the color of their eyes. All Empties have white eyes.
• Murry Purry Fresh and Furry takes place in a world where furries live alongside normal animals, a fact that the characters regularly acknowledge does not make sense.
• Nobody Scores! knows what to do with those damn furries. War, and lots of it!
• Pandect: There's a clear difference between animals with souls and the ability to wear a human form (Aces) and animals without souls. Aces sometimes have a sense when a human or animal is another Ace, but they do not know for certain until the other Ace reveals it.
• Precocious:
  • One of the many reasons why Chrispy made all the characters either cats or dogs was to avert this.
  • The comments for 'Normal Clothes' raise this point; when Principal Blessure decides to dress up as Cruella DeVil, it's theorized that in this world, the movie is about a woman who kidnaps children (of a specific race) in order to skin them and wear their pelts. In the real world, family movie; in a furry world, horror movie.
• Rank Amateur has GELF, like Felix and Guardian, but also has normal animals. This is because GELF are Genetically Engineered Life Forms, creatures who most commonly share DNA with humans, but also with other creatures. In some cases, a form has been made through Computer Aided Design whose DNA is entirely made up specifically for that form.
• Sequential Art depicts a world mixed with humans and anthropomorphic animals... sans Leonard, the Team Pet who is just a regular platypus yet acts somewhat human. A perfectly regular platypus with an as-yet unexplained three-foot poisonous barb that occasionally bursts forth from his upper spine, in place of the barbs on the back of his... Flippers? Claws? Duck feet.
• S.S.D.D. usually averts any mention of species, but mentions it at least twice in relation to an affair between two characters of different "species" (which is apparently considered an unusual fetish even though it's common amongst featured characters).
• In Stubble Trouble, Ally, an anthropomorphic cat, owns a regular pet cat.
• Tiny Kitten Teeth: Mewsli is an anthropomorphic cat who has a pet regular cat. Lampshaded in an early comic when he brings the pet cat on a bus and someone thinks that it's his child.^note Which just raises further questions, if they can't tell furries and regular animals apart.
• Vinigortonio: A sapient alligator in, in order to avoid getting headshot by Platypus's pendant attack, uses the Croc-o-style Sniper set... which is made from a skinned and decapitated crocodile...
• In World of Fizz, the character Dawn, who is an anthropomorphic cat herself, adopts a non-anthropomorphic cat. Other non-anthropomorphic animals are portrayed for comedic purposes.
• You Say It First averts this; the pets shown have been Brants (a creature vaguely similar to a rabbit or cat, with blue or purple fur; not the Real Life goose) or fish.

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