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Tokay High School students flock together in eccentric new club
Furry Club founder and president Ian Holt, 16, holds up a werewolf mask during the Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, meeting of the eccentric club at Tokay High School in Lodi. Holt wears a dog collar and faux-fur tail.
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Tokay High School students flock together in eccentric new club
Furries club founder Ian Holt, 16, leads club elections for the eccentric group during their weekly meeting at Tokay High School in Lodi on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. The students identify themselves as "furries," a subculture that demonstrate their affinity for animals by dressing as animals, drawing animals and creating animal personas.
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Tokay High School students flock together in eccentric new club
Furry Taylor "T-dog" Brown, 16, holds up her tail at Tokay High School in Lodi on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. She clips the tail to the back of her pants.
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Tokay High School students flock together in eccentric new club
A faux-fur tail hangs from the back of Ian Holt's pants during a meeting of the Furry Club at Tokay High School in Lodi on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012.
Dan Evans/News-Sentinel
Tokay High School students flock together in eccentric new club
Furry Club founder and president Ian Holt, 16, wears a dog collar with the name tag "Blaze" at Tokay High School in Lodi on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2012. Holt believes he was a wolf in a previous life.
- Furry fandom key terms
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Furries: People who demonstrate their affinity for animals through drawings, costumes and creating animal personas.
Closet furs: Someone who isn’t publicly open with their love for the fandom.
Fursona: A furry’s alter ego, sometimes with the characteristics drawn or written out.
Therianthropy: The spiritual side of the fandom, believing in a closer connection with animal spirits.
Posted: Friday, November 9, 2012 12:00 am
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Updated: 6:44 am, Sat Nov 24, 2012.
Tokay High School students flock together in eccentric new club
By Sara Jane Pohlman/News-Sentinel Staff Writer
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Sixteen-year-old Ian Holt wore a blue dog collar with a tag labeled "Blaze," a T-shirt depicting a wolf on a mountain range, and had a soft grey faux-fur tail clipped to the belt loop of his jeans on Oct. 31.
He was running the third meeting of the Furry Club, a new organization at Tokay High School looking for ways to promote "furry fandom."
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taylor brown posted at 9:13 pm on Fri, Nov 9, 2012.
My name is Taylor Brown and I was dressed for Halloween..when a friend asked me to come to his club because I was dressed like a fox ..I am not part of this club and was misquoted by the paper.I thought it was for fun because again it was October 31.