Furry Experience

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"Comedy. Drama. Furries."

Started in August of 2009, Furry Experience follows the lives of Dawn, Ronnie, and Cat, three college age girls who share an apartment. According to author Ellen Natalie, most of the hijinks the girls get into are Based on a True Story from her own life or on a "what if" scenario in the area she lives in.

The story is a Slice of Life style that revolves around the girls' interactions at home, at college, and at work, alternating between showing them together and giving each A Day in the Limelight. The three girls also fit very nicely into The Three Faces of Eve, with Dawn (a doe) as the Motherly One, Cat (a cat) as the Childlike One, and Ronnie (a rabbit) as the Other One.

The comic is hosted here.

Tropes used in Furry Experience include:

• Allergic to Love: Whenever Hunter, a husky, attempts to asks Cat out, she runs off in a panic.
  • The fact that he's the sketch class' nude model and she's seen him naked certainly doesn't help matters.
• Art Shift: Lampshaded when colors were first used.
  • For comparison, Exhibit A and Exhibit B.
• Author Avatar: Natalie has stated she most closely identifies with Cat, but that all three girls contain aspects of her personality.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Dawn doesn't want to work for a "wasteful, arrogant, indecisive pig." She gets her wish.
• BFS: One of Dawn's coworkers carries one. Well, it's technically a knife.
• Big Eater: Cat.
• Brick Joke: The Drama Llama makes his appearance at last.
• Burger Fool: Ronnie's workplace, Gulp-N-Go.
• Carnivore Confusion: Lampshaded.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Brian just can't work up the nerve to ask Dawn out on a date.
• Cerebus Syndrome: The arc where Ronnie tries to go to church.
• Chekhov's Gun: This tree.
• Cluster F-Bomb: Hilariously used in this arc.
• Contrived Coincidence: Jane Doe wants to introduce her daughter to Brian. Brian tells her he's already interested in someone. Readers know that both are talking about the same doe, Dawn.
• Cute Little Fangs: Cat has these, but these only show when she smiles or when she is angry.
• Dandere: Cat. She hates meeting new people, but is very friendly around her friends.
• Ears as Hair:
  • Ronnie styles her long rabbit ears as if they were long hair. However, she also has four sets of piercings.
  • Dawn keeps her ears down, most of the time, as she typically wears more formal clothes.
• Everyone Is Single: Dawn only just recently started dating Brian, a buck. The other girls don't have boyfriends.
  • Hunter, Cat's sketch class' nude model, has asked her out at least three times. Each time, she's run off in a panic.
• Hotter and Sexier: Lampshaded and subverted. Ronnie is very secretive about her job, leading the others to think she's a stripper.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Cat can't hit Ronnie even when she's three feet in front of her.
• Lampshade Hanging: What would a furry zoo look like?
• Medium Awareness: An odd example. Cat is studying to draw furry comics, despite being a furry.
• Moral Guardians: Cat's friend Courtney manages to find immoral messages in nursery rhymes.
• Mormonism: Cat and Dawn attend the church.
  • Slightly subverted in that Dawn isn't an official baptized member.
• Punny Name: Dawn's mother's name is Jane Doe. I'll give you a moment.
• Snow Means Cold: Cat is excited over the first snowfall of the year, for all of five seconds.
• Species Surname: Cat is actually short for Catherine.
• Squick: In-Universe example. Dawn's reaction to Cat giving herself a tongue bath.
• Swapped Roles: Cat and Ronnie for a week (Dawn's idea), needless to say it was disastrous.
• Symbol Swearing: A black box instead.
• The Ditz: Cat.

"I just figured out the newspaper joke!"

• The Internet Is for Porn: Cat finds this out the hard way.
• The Three Faces of Eve
• Viewers are Morons: And so are a lot of people coming into Ronnie's workplace.
• Virginity Makes You Stupid: One arc focused on Cat's complete ignorance of anything related to sex.
  • It hits What an Idiot! levels on this page.
• Yiff: none seen onscreen, but Cat doesn't understand what she's seeing until Dawn explains it.