Did you go from being a furry to a zoo?

I actually started out as a zoo, ever since i started to have erections i found dogs atractive and had wanted to have sex with one
 
Have always loved anthro characters in cartoons, my favourite was snoopy such a cool dog. it took me 30 years to actually put the furry name to what I felt. However for me zoo just is, I have always been attracted to 4 leggers ever since I discovered what was hanging under a dog at age 7-8 and when I discovered what sex was all about at puberty it was dogs that ruled my erotic thoughts. But this was before the internet so I didn't really know to much of what a zoo was. In my 30s for a while I was driven well into furry porn, because the abusive crappy commercial beast stuff was making me really ashamed about my attraction to animals because of the fact I could be getting off to stuff that I knew from the animals body language wasn't consensual for them. Thus furry porn offered a guilt free orgasm because the anthros and ferals weren't real so they couldn't be hurt or abused.

So like others I would have to say Zoo first and Furry later.
 
When I was younger I had curiosity towards animals, but it wasn't until after I became a furry that I really understood what zoo was and eventually came back into it through that.
 
It’s really interesting to hear what other people are into. I did not really understand (and still don’t totally) the subtle and sometimes not so subtle differences between what different people are interested in.

i definitely consider myself a zoo, but there are some furry especially the art I think is very erotix. Some of the fursonas are really fun too. I didn’t realize pet play was also a little different and then the beast and fetish people.

As long as there is no abuse of animals (obviously) or people getting hurt I am all for the diversity amongst peoples interests. Not all of it is for me, but it is certainly interesting to hear about.
 
I'm a guy and nope. To be honest, i never realized furry was a thing until 2009-2010 and i was interested into zoo stuff since 2007 or so. But it was reaaaally far far away from my mind to considering hopping into the act with dogs. It was pretty much later then when i gathered courage and tried myself and liked it, but i was already a furry at that time (i became a furry around 2012 or so).

To me each thing is different. And they can co-exist but also be separated. It's a matter of the person itself
 
I don't think either came first for me. I had always felt a certain way about animals, I always got along better with them than my peers, but I didn't understand it, and I didn't know zoophilia was a thing. I also had an interest in anthropomorphic characters, even as just a non-sexual, fandom thing. I loved all the possibilities for self expression, the diverse potential of being non-human. I was obsessed with media with talking animals or animal-like characters, as well as media featuring transformation (The Swan Princess was my favourite movie, and I loved anything with mermaids). I was enamoured with media that featured characters that could communicate with animals, and wished I could do the same. I think furry and zoo really went hand in hand as I grew up.

I discovered furry as a teenager. My involvement in the fandom was non-sexual to start with, I just loved art and roleplaying. I actually won a local youth art competition with a furry painting haha. I had furry friends in high school, and teenagers being teenagers, we eventually found the adult artwork, and something just clicked for me.

It didn't take me long to realise just how much I loved feral yiff. I had also been incredibly curious about animal reproduction for some 'unknown' reason... Feral yiff gave me an 'excuse' to indulge my curiosity. It didn't take me long to accidentally stumble across zoo porn, and instead of seeking more of it (I felt like I had discovered something forbidden, I was kinda scared), I instead decided to look up *why* somebody might do that. Which led me to read about zoophilia in general. Something finally made sense, my affinity with animals had an explanation, though I was still too ashamed to explore further. I spent the next few years going through phases of lurking, then abstaining cold turkey and denying it, and lurking again.

With the pandemic throwing things out of whack, I had more time with my own thoughts and this wasn't so avoidable anymore. Upon some self reflection late last year and earlier this year, I decided to bite the bullet and stop hiding from the community and from who I am.

This probably went a bit off-topic, I have a habit of rambling, but it's good to work through my own feelings, so whatever.

TLDR: I've been both since I can remember really, but I only accepted my zoophilia a while after being a furry. Neither are purely sexual for me.
 
I personally I ever started feeling sexual attraction when I was around 12 and it happened to be towards animals, soon after followed me looking at zoo porn over the internet, then somewhere when I was like 16 I became a furry, so in my case it was the other way around!
 
I went right into furry as zoofur, but did not realize I also fit the zoo label right away because I was confused about what furry was. When I learned how many furries dislike zoos, I left being furry.
I probably would not have stayed furry too much longer any way, because as I aged, I started enjoying the unique aspects of my species of attraction. Furry threw too many chimeric human traits into the mix, but I wanted to enjoy nonhumans for who they were without anthropomorphizing them. I still have fond memories of being furry when I was younger, though.
 
Discovered zoo first. We had a male Husky/Wolf mix when I was 13, he was beautiful, I only wish he would have mounted me when i tried but he was too interested in our Saint Bernard that was in heat, but she was willing, so instead, I had my first zoo experience when I was 13 with our saint bernard.
 
I'm honestly not quite sure which I got into first. It's like the question about which came first, the chicken or the egg... I know that both were around the same time. If I had to guess I'd probably say that zoo was first and I found furry characters more accessible, in fact, while typing this I'm almost certain that was how it happened. I found characters like Spyro The Dragon and Sonic The Hedgehog attractive, and it was easier to yank it to a picture I already had in my possession rather than have sexual contact with a dog that was either fixed or someone else's. Seemed like an easier route given the situation I was in at the time.
 
I grew up with the zoo feelings as far as I can remember and only discovered it was a thing in my early teens, with furry I used to doodle anthro characters but didn't discover furry was a thing until my very late teens.
 
AriesAngyl said:
It’s really interesting to hear what other people are into. I did not really understand (and still don’t totally) the subtle and sometimes not so subtle differences between what different people are interested in.

i definitely consider myself a zoo, but there are some furry especially the art I think is very erotix. Some of the fursonas are really fun too. I didn’t realize pet play was also a little different and then the beast and fetish people.

As long as there is no abuse of animals (obviously) or people getting hurt I am all for the diversity amongst peoples interests. Not all of it is for me, but it is certainly interesting to hear about.
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I think there’s a small furry side to you and I like it, since I’m the same.
 
I grew up zoo and didn’t discover furry until later. I hung out for a few years until I realized they were all batshit crazy and deleted everyone lol.
 
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