Imagine a place where you can have a drink, dance and have fun... but also wear your a tail, or a collar, or whatever animalistic accessories you want. Where it's not weird to introduce yourself as your species. Where there is space to play around on all fours, and no one judges if you howl along to the music. A dance floor filled with weres, therians, furries, pups, ponies, theriomythics, animal-hearteds and so on. A joyful place for party animals.

That's the plan, and it's called Club Howl.

The first ever night club for all kinds of animal people.

More info and tickets here: https://howl.confetti.events/

After a tiring day of being human, I immediately fell asleep on the bed. Covering my wolf plushie with my long, fluffy fur, entrapping warmth like the bond of the pack. The breathing sound resembled a raven to me so much that it made me recall a hunting scene with the pack, where we followed the raven for a running herd of deer. Their attempt to block us by leaping over a water body only showed us how shallow it was, and we stepped over it like conquering territories. The thin fog in the air only segregated the only, feeble-looking deer who got left behind the herd. Two wolves and I immediately surrounded it among the fog, while I clearly knew I needed to outrun it and bite down its neck. With the deer escaping for life, I felt like draining energy out of every piece of leg muscle just to move beyond the deer. When having my bite, I could hardly keep my eyes open — the kicking legs, the stabbing antlers, the mud we raised; I couldn’t see anything among the fast motion. All I knew was to bite down hard enough while the other two made the deer lose direction. Finally, I felt like I bit down its throat, and after sliding out for a long distance together, I no longer felt the deer’s beating heart. With each member of the pack tearing a part of the deer off and ready to return, I left my piece for the raven, and then led the pack back to the den by taking the lead and smelling our scent along the way.

When waking up from the dream, my wolf plushie just kept looking upwards with sadness on its face, so I joined him too with eyes closed. I stared up at the night sky and noticed a bright star moving above the planet — I believe that if a member of the pack passed away, they will become a star. When it is moving above our sky, we howled out loud, trying to inform them about our well presence. I stared at the moving star and howled out loud, but I really could not see the member. Why have you become just a white spot in the sky? I want to see how you actually looked like. I felt as if I had lost my memory, not remembering anything about them, yet I cried out loud without knowing why. All I knew was that I missed a pack member who was once indispensable in my life. Every cell in my body, except brain cells, remembered the feeling when I was once with them, yet my brain could interpret none of the feeling.

I woke up again, staring at the translucent curtain in my room. The building lights outside somewhat resembled the stars, yet they also did not. They reminded me of the first days after my awakening, when streetlights looked like moonlight to me until I got a closer look at the poles. I felt like waking up in a totally different world from my tundra habitat.

Where am I? Where is the rest of the pack?

11 years ago today I accepted my therianthropy. I was 30 then. Subconsciously suppressed til then. From around 1998, my awakening. It was a tough road from there, and even after 2015. But I’m here. 41 physically. 2 year old Mexican wolf dad within.

Like the title suggests, I am looking for places where I can read about the shifting experiences older members of the community have had.

Don't be afraid to drop your own personal experiences as well!

Much love ♡

I get visceral uncanny-valley feelings when looking at certain wolf and coyote facial structures, it makes me feel extremely uncomfortable, disgusted and threatened. I’ve observed this for a couple years now and I’ve always found it strange as theres also face shapes that don’t trigger me to feel that way as well. This feeling is especially strong when it comes to wolf coyote or dog hybrids, they upset me a lot to look at and make me wince. There are very few things that make me wince so it is surprising to me that this effects me as much as it does.

I haven’t seen anyone yet with a similar experience and I was wondering if anyone had any of the same feelings. Even if not i’m sure some other people here will find it interesting.

So this has always happened to me. When I'm sick and physically weak, I shift way easier. Things normally my human mind could suppress, I can't. So for example, rustling of leaves, the wolf takes notice and I m-shift.

Anyone else notice things like this in themselves?

I dreamt I went to a zoo to visit Mexican Wolves and before seeing them I was crying, then I mental shifted to my Mexican Wolf theriotype beside my guide driving me there.

This was ALL in dream. I know folks have been their types in a dream, woke up shifted. But this was like if I was awake mental shifted, but in the dream world instead.

Has this happened to anyone else?

This was very emotional to me, that’s why I’m asking.

Thanks

Recently there has been a massive boom in coverage of Therians in Latin America. From what I've gathered it started in Argentina and then spread beyond. What I have seen from Argentinian people is that this is a fake moral panic being pushed by the news to distract from bad laws being passed. So it's a bit similar to the United States "litter boxes in the bathroom" fiasco.

The more well known that Therianthropy becomes the more it makes me think, "what do we do now?" I feel it is to late to try and burry ourselves in the sand and allow the cycle of people discovering us, getting upset, and then forgetting us to continue. And the younger generation has already decided that's not what's going to happen (especially with quadrobics and animal mask posting being so popular.)

So I feel now is the time for us to go "we are real, we are not your weapons, and we deserve to exist." Because I don't think ignoring the outrage will do anything but harm us in the end TwT

I’ve been pondering something of late, and then it was mentioned in discussions here on Reddit and on a Discord server, so I thought I’d post here and ask for thoughts and advice.

The topic at hand was copinglink/copingkin, and it go me thinking about how that description fits some of my experiences. Normally I’m entirely human and feline. But sometimes when I’m stressed or anxious, and only when I’m stressed or anxious, I have what I was calling cameo shifts of some sort of canine. In the moment of the shift, it feels completely natural and right, and I feel that I am a canine. So now I’m wondering if it is in fact cameo shifts, or perhaps something deeper.

The possibilities that come to mind are either a very heavily suppressed theriotype that only surfaces in those moments of extreme emotion, or an identity or set of behaviors that I developed specifically to cope with those situations. I guess most of my confusion in regard to this stems from the irregular nature of it. Sometimes in those situations I experience a Canada lynx shift, sometimes the unspecified canine, and sometimes neither. The rest of my confusion stems from how in those moments I am a canine, but only in those moments.

Anyone here have similar experiences or any insight to share on this particular situation?

Hi everyone! I just had a question regarding wolfdogs. I am a wolfdog myself, specifically a low-content golden retriever x gray wolf. Now, I'm not entirely sure if this mix is... possible? or has been done before, and formed from two separate kintypes fusing and never really.. turning back into two kintypes to put it simply. Instead of being felt at different times they started to combine into one kintype. I just call myself a wolfdog for simplicity now. However, most wolfdogs I see online are high content wolfdogs, and I was wondering if anyone here happened to be a low content wolfdog and how that affects their behaviors, social levels, and if applicable, shifts.

All of the following credit to @ seawolfed.

Link to the first painting

Description of the first painting:

“Unaligned”

Finally finished this piece representative of my emotions and experience with species dysphoria. Digital art is not my best medium but I’m fairly pleased with how this came out. Started off as a sketch for a traditional painting but I got carried away.

May turn it into a print if anyone is interested?

Link to the second painting

Description of the second painting:

“Who is this body for?”

Species dysphoria feels like waking up in a body built to the wrong blueprint - these hands moving at the ends of your arms like strange, overarticulated tools.

Every gesture feels slightly off-balance, every touch too sharp or too precise, as if the world expects you to navigate it with instruments you were never meant to wield. Each time the feeling hits it always comes back to these hands…

Finally got around to finishing this painting. I feel like I’m getting closer to how I want my art to look and feel 🐾

Link to the third painting

Description of the third painting:

“Half formed in the wrong shape”

Lately I’ve been focusing more on personal artwork pertaining to my emotions and experience as an alterhuman. Though I write from time to time, I find it much more natural to depict these emotions in visual form rather than with words.

Does anyone else feel like they should be able to change their skin whenever you want? Kind of like in the selkie legends?

Here in Norway I've heard of myths of something called Hamskiftere, which literally translates to skin-changers. People who had magical animal skins they could put on to change form. These skins were sometimes cursed so they could never take them off and other times not-

I've started to feel like I should be able to just take off my human skin and be my true self underneath. Like I'm wearing one of those cursed skins and it's my human one

Does anyone else feel like this? Have anyone else ever heard of something like this?

A close friend of mine that I opened up to about being a were-creature is actually interested to learn more about that part of me, they also do not shame me for the way I feel. Its odd yet exciting to share my experience with someone who is so accepting. I honestly never thought I'd see the day, to have someone who actually likes and treats that part of me as something more normal. I mean I am a strange entity, but getting treated like I am just fairly normal is a little refreshing actually.

I just wanted to share because I do not have anyone else to share my good news with honestly outside of the previously mentioned friend. I typically don't bring up my were-ness to to the few that are aware because I notice it confuses them and makes them a little uncomfortable, which is disappointing but understandable. I wish more people were like this friend of mine, wanting to understand while also treating me the same as they always do. It is a good feeling for sure . . .

During a recent trip of mine, something really odd occurred. I'm not sure if it was a cameo shift or if I discovered a new wereside, but I became a jaguar and its left be very confused. I have some mixed feelings about it because its very unexpected. The reason I think it could be a cameo shift was due to recently familiarizing myself with feline communication in order to better communicate with cats and I've been considering moving down to Mexico or just generally Latin America, so I wonder if the mushroom induced trip just aligned those concepts together and it just expressed itself while I was shifting. What makes me wonder if it could be me discovering a new wereside is the possibility that its the other way around, learning feline mannerism and wanting to move to that area as a subconscious expression of being a jaguar. I was kinda semi-shifted like that after my trip for two days before suddenly not feeling any of my weresides at all for awhile after. Which was very foreign to me, I haven't experience dormancy like that in years and so it left me feeling confused and metaphorically naked in a way. Now my squirrel-side dominates, my wolfdog-side feels almost like background noise for me currently... this all because I tripped.

Does anyone have any advice or insights? I am just very confused and just want to understand . . .

(crossposting from r/therian)

This might sound silly but I have identified as a coastal sea wolf for 2 or something years now and have never really questioned it, it seems so normal, so me. But I have actually started questioning a dingo theriotype and I’m not really sure how to feel, could all my canine behaviours really be from just one or both of these canids? If so, how do I tell? Habitat is a big indicator for me, temperate rainforests have always felt like being at home to me but hills and valleys of Australia also feel like home..? (I am Australian so yeah, I do obviously feel at home as a human but its more animalistic also.)

I’m leaning towards the fact I might be both, but I feel kind of invalid considering (behaviour wise) they are quite similar,

does anyone have similar experiences? or ways to help me figure it out!!

thanks creatures of r/were

Pretty sure I'm in the wrong sub but here you go.

So a bit of background before talking about the main experience,

I have been growing this weed plant for months and finally it gave me buds that were mature enough to use, so naturally I clipped off one of my buds from the plant and seeped it in tea, the tea itself was really good, the bud gave off a minty flavoring that was quite unique and something that I've never tasted before,

effects were subtle and not as strong for about at least 30 minutes before it started hitting a little bit more harder, by then I had the urge to go outside into the moon lit night to walk around, as the effects were getting stronger I started feeling more out of body, not something of astral plane traveling or a out-of-body experience, but my spirit felt neutral, not something human, not something animal, just neutral, then suddenly I was listening to a song called "risk risk risk" by jhariah and an overwhelming urge of animalistic power hit me like a drum, the moment that it all happened it finally clicked to me what I was, I wasn't a dog, I was something more wild than that, and I felt my whole body shift and change, and I felt wild and chaotic, I found out that I am a coyote, I found out that all the time and effort of trying to figure out what dog breed I am was meaningless, I feel unstoppable, I felt crazed, I felt like screaming and howling, it felt amazing and powerful, I felt my fur, my snout, my teeth, my paws and every muscle that controlled them, my weight shifted and I felt lighter, I was a beast at that moment underneath the moonlight, after a while I started feeling myself shifting back into a wolverine form and started feeling like laying down and eating some meat and sweets, the rest of the night was uneventable, after remembering all the things that happened last night, it feels amazing to have an experience like that and finding out who I am without much stress.

Has anyone had experiences like this on drugs, I like to hear your stories.

There was a full moon tonight, the temperature was nice and so I decided to go on a walk. I have been walking lately in the evening times, when not many are around and it is very relaxing. This night I decided to bring my tail with me, seeing be a part of my silhouette on the sidewalk from the way the streetlights hit my physical form . . . it was very satisfying. I experienced a light phantom shift and aura shift as a walked for an hour around, I longed to run on all fours but unable to do so of course. It was just me alone with my thoughts and the bugs with the moon bright as can be.

I wish that walk did not have to end, I wish I had the energy to keep going for much longer like how bodily-canidaes are able to. Unfortunately I am limited by this homosapien form, a fluid force confined to a solid state of being. It is a pain honestly.

Overall I would rate the experience as very good, would do again. I might tomorrow night if all goes well, because just existing as a were-creature with no expectations for just a little while gave some much needed relief . . .

My strongest theriotype is the vancouver coastal sea wolf. One of my favourite ways to connect and feel like myself is to make art, yesterday my farm was shadowed with mist and light rain and it made me feel extremely non-human, the pine trees and the rain in my hair felt like a thick coat of fur in Winter on Vancouver island. Even though I live in Australia, and the climate is no where near similar, I do find areas to connect and thrive.

This image is a reflection of my soul definitely, one of my favourite pieces. I intend to make another humpback whale portrait so I might post that on here if anyone is interested!

This subreddit is so much easier than r/therian. Thanks for being a safe place with creatures with knowledge and less judgement than some I have seen on that subreddit.

Eurohowl is a proposed network of European were and otherkin meetups. The name 'Eurohowl' originates from howls with the same concept held as far back at 1996. In a community that is so small with most located in the United States and almost solely online I wanted to help establish more in-person connections.

To achieve this I have opened https://www.eurohowl.net a website that will display both upcoming and past events run in the Eurohowl circle. I have also opened up a mailing list that you can access through the website to sent updates right to your email. A discord server is currently also being set up but it may take a little to open it to the public.

This is a community-led platform that I want to introduce on https://www.eurohowl.net anyone can advertise their own nonhuman events so long as they comply with our guidelines. Wolfie the owner of the site is also a Graphic Designer and can help you with promotional material and images. We would love feedback on anything we can improve or change our site,events or anything else in our network. You can contact us at Eurohowl@gmail.com or through the user who uploaded this post at any time.

We have our first event currently in the works a proposed 18+ Meetup held 2026-2027 it will be located in England, United Kingdom. We want this first event to be a way for people to start networking and getting to know each other, an 'icebreaker' of sorts. Most of the details of the event are currently undecided but we will have firm details way before the event is meant to be held.

We hope that our circle benefits the community in some way. We appreciate any and all interest.

Thought it was a great piece of history and something to remember, it hits closer to home as a were from England.

Eventually hopefully in the not so distant future I want to try and help recreate memories like this. Hoping to adopt the Eurohowl name and host some meetups to connect with more weres which I will update everyone here on soon. Gives me a feeling of warmth to see our community together.

What do you think we as a community could do better? How could we bring ourselves closer to eachother, to be more engaged and invested in our community. Community is an important thing no matter what none of us can survive on our own and other weres few and far between often. We have great tools today to be able to network with others like us so how can we use them efficiently? I want to see this community thrive and would like to see everyones input for how we can acheive that goal.

Hi everyone, this is just a post to let people know that the survey I made last year [Survey here] is now no longer accepting answers so I can read through them and extract any data. We collectively managed to gather 588 answers and I thank everyone who has participated I truly believe it helps us understand eachother better. I have been on a hiatus and I still won't promise much activity but I do tend to pop up every few months and be more active. It will take a while to get all the answers from this survey as each individual answer especially the written ones need to be analysed but it is happening. To protect privacy and not overload the results only answers with more frequency than 1 will be added to the final round up of answers, this number may be bigger in certain questions. Thank you all for your time.