Hands...you get bored and color your hands.

Paws my friend, I chose my words right. Alot of non furries I know (generally in the older age bracket) do indeed call hands "paws". Haven't you ever heard older folk say things like "PAWS OFF" and other crafty things.

Either way if you're looking to start a fight over a strange choice of words I say you need to get a life... It's just the internet... Don't cry...

Hands my friend, I chose MY words right. You are a human being so use human terms. And yes, I have heard "Paws Off" however that doesn't mean you can go using the term paws willy nilly.
And...you're the one getting defensive my dear

Okay say as you will I'm still right. Last time my mate was on a ship the older gent (who was deffinately no furry) told him "keep your paws here" so I'm going to go with you're a troll on a rampage.... Have fun bro. Lol.

I was hoping for a better argument, usually fighting turns me on and all... sadly you're just one of these boring 4chan fellas. Good luck I guess. Me and my PAWS are going to be chillin ova hear.

*shrugs* Never heard that one before XP and no. I am not a troll, trolls have no method or reason other than they are haters.
As for me being one of those 4chan fellas, I have never stepped onto that site and never will. Trust me, I am not a bad person, just a member of this fandom who is slightly disgusted with this fandom sometimes.

Then why hastle me about saying paws? It's not like I have an over obsession with knots or cat penises... It's not like I call my ass a "tail" either... If anything I'm an otaku with an animal sona... Like in bleach, I forget how to spell her name but she turns into the black cat... Pops up in mist naked and junk...

Because, it is one of my largest pet peeves about the fandom. We are humans not animals with paws (yes I know we are animals but we have hands and feet. I appologize, you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, posting something that irritates me to no end.
Also...I've never watched Bleach *fail*

It's fine anime is not everyone cup of tea.

There are alot more irritating things in the fandom than hands being called paws. In all honesty I find more people dumber than the average housecat here. But what makes us have hands instead of paws. I say my mice have hands due to their lack of pads.

Some anime I like, never really got into Bleach though.

Yea, like people being all murrpurryiffyiff all the time o.0 *chuckles* Funny you should say that, I have found people dumber than the average goldfish. I say we have hands and feet rather than paws because it isn't our toes and fingers that we walk on. Plus the no "pads" thing. And yea I agree, most rodents to me have "hands" because of first of all their usable thumbs and second of all, their lack of pads and the fact that they don't walk on their toes.

Oh another term... Tail hole... Have never used it seriously....

*shudders* that one...ugh

I generally hang out with an older crowd, some of them dont even know what furries are so when they call kids pups or hands paws I like to think they see them as, well, not inferior but not trained to be a respectful human being. I believe in Britain they call children pups because when I use it online they immediately ask what part of England I'm from...

Ah, that would explain it then, the whole hanging with the older crowd. Some of their sayings and such are fairly odd.

Indeed, I just got lazy differentiating between the two because mice, people, monkeys and apes have hands and feet where as foxes, bunnies, cats and dogs have paws. If I call them all paws I'm still considered right depending on the crowd I'm with. Generally the younglings wouldn't get it but the furries think the understand what I mean, the anime folk pay it no mind and the older folks are odd enough to let it go...

Hmm, would rabbits have paws...or hands? Since rabbits don't have pawpads.../random.
But yea I am not too much of a youngling (I like that word *chuckles*) but I don't hang around many old folk and the ones I do are very...proper if you will.

Personally because they cant grab things they would be paws BUT they do indeed have feet. Ever heard of the lucky rabbits foot. With old people... Never been a fan of the proper ones, they were boring. Maybe had an interesting story or two but non worth repeating. Now the country ones they're fun. Talking about all types of scandalous stuff they used to do as children, telling you about the things your parents did as children... photos of your dad sleeping on the toilet at age 7 after a long day at church. Those are the ones you need to find to hear things like "paws" "pups" "younglings" and other crafty things I havent heard in ages seeing as my old friends seem to be dying off....

Very true. I know of rabbit's feet, I had a few as a kid before they stopped putting them out as prizes at places like Chuck E Cheese (they've since replaced them with fake ones). I've never been a fan of proper old people either, although it is sort of fun to listen to their stories and see if they slip up about being bad teens and such. Funny that I live out in the country yet none of the old folks really talk that way around here. I suppose it's because the little town I live in is pretty stuck up for it's size.

I just like the terms the older crowd uses so I listen in, just like how my mimicry has been getting too good... My bark has become short and raspy like a pitbulls due to the fact my neighbors had one for the longest time. It's used to be deep and full bodied like something more threatening...

One thing my grandma says that makes me giggle is feesh. She knows how to say it correctly but she always says feesh and deeshes (dishes).
My bark is more of a..german shepherd bark I guess.

Lol, like my grandma and oril (the way she says oil). Lol, or the way my aunt cant say beach. I have to get back to work on my bark, currently have 3 in my roster, Small breed, pit bull and some sort of medium sized dog...

Oril! LOL! That's awesome. I used to be able to sound like a yappy dog but then for some reason getting my tonsils out changed the pitches that I could make so I am limited to medium and large dogs.

I can be some shades of a control freak, stood in a mirror for 2 hours trying to control my pupils. I do the same when I learn to make a new sound, hours of research and practice, trying to re-learn to snarl... Got lion and cheetah calls down like a boss. Lol.

Lol I do the same thing but instead with my nostrels. I don't spend too much time trying to get sounds down to the T. Except for maybe howls and barks.

I flare my nostrils like bunnies do...

Hehe that's awesome, I havn't gotten that down yet but I can sorta move my ears (which freaks my mom out btw).

I flick my ears when they get touched it happens without any thought now a days, the mate likes playing with them.... Usually baring my teething is enough to get people to stop, I used to sharpen my teeth but not so much anymore since the need to bite has gone down.

And I'm generally purring at my sister or my mate to get them to pet me.

I move my ears back and forth which actually changes the pitches that I can hear. I'm not sure if I would call what I do twitching though. I wish the baring of teeth worked for me, usually people don't take it seriously until I've bit them.
I purr at my mom, sister and my cat (who just looks at me like WTF?). My mom is usually the only one that will pet me though :(

Try growling softly or leaning away while you bare your teeth. Usually that makes it obvious you're not just kidding.

I can feel my ear drum pulse if I move them slower, it sounds odd.
Usually my sister will call me a retard and pet me anyways.

Hmm, I'll have to try that next time.
Question, can you hear or at least feel dog whistles? I can't hear them but I can feel them. It feels like a really intense pressure on my ear drum.
My sister is a lot like me so she usually takes it as an ok to play like an animal with me lol.

I generally feel dog whistles but not in the ear drum, it's an over all sudden discomfort from the shoulders to the base of the neck. Sort of like someone is touching me or the air is moving.

Yea I get a tingly feeling on the back of my neck in addition to the ear drum pressure. Not really on my shoulders though.

It's the front part of the shoulders, the soft part. Feels all tingly like someone is touching it.

Hmm, strange. I definately don't get tingly there. Just on the back of my neck where the little hairs are.

I hate that feeling *shudders*

*nods* Same here, especially if I KNOW there is no one in the room.

At that point I just start growling the the weird goes away.

Yea, I'm not that brave lol! I usually cower and try to make myself as small as I can.

Coming from a very aggressive female I'm quite aggressive just like her, hehe. Now normalcy, THAT I'm deathly terrified of.

I'm generally a calm girl unless someone is threatening my friends or family, then that's usually when bones get broken.

I cause many little flesh wounds, havent broken anything yet. I have almost strangled soneone once! If I stop replying it's because I'm sort of drinking and I'm not making so much sence anymore. Oh shift it's late. I promiced I'd call the mate. We'll have to talk more later, maybe meet up at a con or fur meet. You have a wonderfull night.

I managed to break a guys ribs *giggles*. Anways you have a wonderful night as well. It's nearly 4:30am here. It would be really awesome to meetup at a con someday :) you guys take care and I'll watch you both on my main account.

Oh and one of my favorite things to do is purr. I looove purring.

OMG I LOVE PURRING!!! One question, do you bare your teeth when people reach for your face without permission?

Lol! I know this may seem silly but I nuzzle up against my mom and purr. And yep, I sure do. I give them a warning snarl, if they continue I snap at them, and if they still continue then I bite. Which my bite really hurts apparently because I have funky teeth, my canines grew above my other teeth and so they havn't gotten dull from use and so they can actually puncture.

HEY!

i am her mate and even if she has "hands" they are paws. just watch her use those thing for a few min and she uses them like paws. if you ever see a cat smake a dog in the head when it gets to close that is exactly what she dose when i try to take food form her plate. she bats thing away. yes she is not a furry but a anime neko; i think TaoKaKa is the best fit for her. i know there claws do about the same amound of damage.

P.S.

all good trolls have a method to there madness.

*chuckles* Calm down...I do the same thing and my fursona is a wolf. I will smack people's hands away fast like a cat smacking something.

He means the way I curl my fingers in. It makes them look to be lions paws (I curl them in so not to scratch people or break nails, it just looks "impressive"), its the length of the bones in my fingers. Other cats and things like wolves have a square paw where lions, tigers and linxes have longer bones in the paw making them more easily imitated.

...I do the exact same thing except I do it because as a child I was abused by my step dad. He would always stand on my fingers with his size 16 steel-toed boots if I happened to be sitting in the floor. Instinctively I began curling my fingers to avoid them being stepped on. Also when I was a child I ran around on my hands and feet and curling my fingers in prevented me from bending my fingers back.

As a kid to run up stairs I'd go on all fours, also dropped the chances of falling down them.... Still hate stairs... I generally have issues with food aggression because at my place life is sort of run like a wild pack of wolves. Whoever can take food off the others plate fastest gets food. Go watch vids of animals with food aggression then try to take things off my plate, looks exactly the same, body blocking, growling, raised hackles, nipping and the occasional yipp, you know, that cross between whine, bark and yell.

I run up the stairs that way still to this day, more momentum it seems. As for my food aggression it stemed from school. If you didn't eat everything you could within 5 minutes it was stolen. I took to biting and swiping at people which of course got me made fun of and called cat/wolf woman. (*gasp* now you know my gender XP). I litterally growl at people who try to steal my food, I've taught myself not to bite since being out of school because generally now it's my family and if I bite one of them I'm in big trouble.

I still bite my folks if they get me out of the room trouble or not.... First 2 years of high school I was known as puppy because I barked at people that scared me. Didnt get wolfie till mid second year when they found out I could howl and snarl... Could being a key word. Nowadays I just meow and cheetah chirp... I still bark but only when provoked or excited. Growling is second nature....

Yea, biting my mom will get me a swift bop on the nose, which does not feel good o.0 I am still known as wolfy to some of my old school friends. Mainly because I can howl. I still howl to the coyotes out here sometimes when I can hear them close to town. I also meow and chirp which my mom gets a good laugh at since my fursona is a wolf. As for barking...I do that if the phone rings or someone knocks. Many times we've been asked if we have a dog because of my barking. And I agree growling really is a second nature.

Mleh, I guess my mom, the elderly and pups are safe from being bitten... That's almost creepy, I still bark at the phone and when the garage door opens, I noise at the cyotes at the golf course....

I just want to say, that I appologize once again for my stupidity and that you infact seem like a really cool person. We actually have quite a bit in common (which is kinda cool and scary at the same time). So...again I am sorry and I hope you can forgive me for being such a prick.

Apology accepted. You just so happened to rage at someone who knew what they're talking about and so happened to not really be a furry. Find a furry, I promise you they call them paws because they like doggies.

It is kind of odd and slightly creepy how similar we are. Even our linguistics are quite similar...

In all honesty I'm generally right and I'm sorry It had to be at you but it's nice to see someone out there willing to apologize rather than just call me a fur fag all over facebook.... Happens often, you'd be surprised.

I myself really don't think I am a furry. I have been told that what I feel is actually what a therian feels. So I suppose that is why it bothers me so much.
And I agree, it really is sort of creepy.
If I know I am wrong, or even right in some ways and wrong in others I will generally step down and appologize. Anything other than that and I would probably hate myself.