I like Tails. Not in that way, of course. He's like a cute little brother. Also he's 8. Anyway.
I don't really consider myself a furry, but I'm not not a furry. That is, I'm certainly not the complete opposite of a furry, and I don't feel any incredibly urgent need to distance myself from such a label (so long as I get to clarify it a bit, and everyone doesn't just assume it means I dress up in fursuits and go to conventions to have orgies with other people in fursuits). I do quite like Rescuers Down Under, Great Mouse Detective, Secret of NIMH, et al, and the anthropomorphic animals in them are probably part of the appeal for me, in a non-sexual way; and I also admit that I'm capable of being attracted to some characters like that (though most of the furry art I've seen that's specifically meant to invoke attraction does pretty much the opposite), in a way somewhat similar to how I'm capable of being attracted to some guys, though female humans tend to beat them both by a longshot.
I've never met a furry I didn't like. Fifth and penguinwizard are pretty cool guys; there's this one guy on a forum I used to lurk on whom I disagreed with 90% of the time but was always very respectful and civil and argued his points well, and I later found out that it wasn't a coincidence that his avatar was an anthropomorphic wolf; Mary Jo Pehl, who played Pearl on MST3K, is apparently a furry, as she was spotted at a convention a few years back (which makes me wonder if those penguin costumes from the penguin costume sketch at the beginning of episode 912 were already lying around her house...). As far as I can tell, they're about as well-adjusted and normal on average as the general populace (admittedly, not really saying a whole lot). Also, I probably sympathize with them a bit for basically being the collective punching bags of the internet.
Of course, in the interest of disclosure, I have said in the past that if Yoshis were real and were as sentient as they're portrayed in the RPGs, I might date one, so maybe I am a furry.
