Troy Whitson of Cinebar,WA is a member of a group called the Furries, who dress like animals, often identifying strongly with real or cartoon critters enough to dress and act like their animal characters. Halloween never ends for these guys who look a bit like a sports mascot convention when gathered together. The movement has spread across the country, but has been popular in Washington state for some time. I believe it has something to do with all of that indoor time, and lack of sunlight, and for a very few like 21 year-old Whitson, an old law in
Washington, only recently changed. They are nearly all men, employed mainly in tech – related jobs, who often share a love of sci-fi, cuddly stuffed animals,and comic books.
Of course the effort of costume making and make-up would be pointless without conventions and other social events where they are free to act out their characters, and act out they do! Unless you’re reading a religious right-wing description, sex isn’t part of the lifestyle. If you are reading one, it’s Sodom
and Gomorrah in a flea collar.
Perhaps because of Washington’s long and disreputable tolerance for legal bestiality, Whitson was an exception, and in an apparent bid to impress his new friends, performed sex on his malamutes. The stunned friends promptly turned him in. Bestiality was legal until the legislature banned it four years ago after the Enumclaw horse sex case, where a customer at an animal brothel was killed in an encounter with a horse..
Whitson was sentenced to 30 days, and told he can’t own animals for two years, when I’m certain he’ll be all better in psychological terms. His malamutes have been placed in another home, where they can try to work through the surreal
sexual abuse at the hands of their alpha dog with opposable thumbs.
FURRY, Troy Whitson of WA state Sentenced For Sex With His Two Dogs