Therefore, to try and sum up. There is a black and white where anthro covers a broad range of things while furries are focused on anthro animals and the community that has grown around it with the use of fursuits being solely a furry thing (mascot suits are not furry suits). While the majority are normal people, a small minority have given furries a bad association.
But, there is also a grey area where some people may not fit into the “full furry box, but they also solely enjoy anthro animals and not all forms of anthro. There is no coined term to describe these kinds of people and these are people that could be anthro or they could be furries. But, in circumstances that someone is in this grey area it should be the opinion of that person that defines who they are. If someone in the grey area says they are not a furry, they should be respected as such and the same should be said for anyone who says they are a furry even if they don’t do all the stuff that full furries do.

However, it isn’t as simple as that. As some people may create OC’s and not act like animals or their characters, but they may have one anthro animal character that represents themselves (myself included). Also, a misinterpretation of a furry is that they sexualise animals and a perverse people and causes many people to not want to be associated with them. But, this is not the case as many furries will see the characters as separate from animals or they don’t associate themselves with anything sexual. Furries have been given a bed rep from media and tv shows as the strange and odd behaviour of a minority of the furry community attracted the attention of non-furry/anthro people and has caused an incorrect association between furries and perverse behaviour.

While the word “furry” used in the context of the furry fandom does not have an official definition and therefore can be debated.
Some people have tried to argue, a furry could be defined as someone who likes anthropomorphic animals. However, this definition causes many people who are not associated with furries or the furry community to be labelled as furries. Another way to define if someone is a furry is if they think and act like the characters they create. Having a fursona and fursuit gives people the freedom to pretend to be something they are not and that can feel nice to some people. But people who like anthro animals but do not act like their characters could therefore be labelled as not a furry.

After reading quite a lot of the comments on the argument, I joined just so I could say some words on the matter.
The problem lies within the fact that definitions are extremely broad and can overlap and is therefore very subjective and is usually drawn from personal opinions.
However, officially, anthropomorphic is defined as giving a non-human being or an object human attributes. It can include giving anything from animals, household objects, machinery and plants human characteristics. However, it can be as simple as giving these things human emotions, limbs or a face but it can also be much more complex by giving an object all the characteristics of being a human with subtle qualities of the object they are, or it could be something in between. Therefore, anthro covers anything non-human that has been given even a single human quality.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Same.

.-.

how ♥♥♥♥?

why am i not the leader of my own group? Oops.

i hate anti furrys
♥♥♥♥ u

O i see, so now you turn thins up side down on me... llew deylap ton yllear

Quick kill the children and theyre parents infront of em!

The feds are unto us!

*puts a mirror in front of your new names* there we go, feeling a little PARANOID are we?

I don't drink smoke, I don't smoke bourbon, all I wanna do is to be urban.

aint even smokin even a littel blunt even if given one, stay christian~~

I don't smoke dope, I don't drink bourbon, all I wanna do is shake my turban.

I ain't wishin' nothin' but facts.

As you wish;)

Just talking about pot ain't no confession.

Do as you wish.

Not if you live in serten places, and people being parnoid of getting busta aint even knowin how to tripp over a log of candy apples

Do we really have to talk about pot like this? I mean really, sure people do whatever they do, but there is no reason to talk about it. Think about it, all you need is a confession, and BOOM your arrested. Really.

♥♥♥♥♥ you are the weed so i own you and the weed

You cant own the Wind! you can only pass it.

♥♥♥♥♥ i own you

Sounds like your dog has an issue with gender confusion.

♥♥♥♥♥ already humping her bed.

shes 8 years in dogs years, soon she will get peroids and get horn y as a cat on lsd

It's one of those things smooth, cant really put a number to it, you just have to follow your gut.

I ain't got no clue what ♥♥♥♥♥ be in dogyears though.

Skinny ♥♥♥♥♥ is young, though. ♥♥♥♥♥ only be one year old, still good.

Oh we snap back to realtiy

Oh there goes gravity

mom's spaghetti

Wonderful, npow your VtM cain, (figures with your name) Wondferful just WONDERFUL! WHO IS GOUING TO BE THE ASSIT GM AND KEEP TRACK OF BLOOD POINTS NOW HUH? WAY TO GO CAIN! YOU JUST BROUGHT THIS APON US ALL!

No reason to be so mean to your dog:( Do you not love big sloppy kisses?

She's not annoying, she's just an actual ♥♥♥♥♥.

I dunno man... you say lady, i say cain looks like dark man, things are not always as they seem. Sure your dog may be annoying / female, but what am i to say on a topic as such? HUH! :'( I GET CONFUSED! Only sometimes tho.

That ♥♥♥♥♥ is skinny, that ♥♥♥♥♥ be trippin

Dude, it's a ♥♥♥♥♥.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! He is cute. *hugs*

And the russians are trying to build pipelines through our lands while the germans are building more bunkers.

What a loud a balony we got hear, we got the french knockin on the door and the pope at the backyard.

Fine, jeez! Here you go: https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/423231_114046352058720_100003600684251_74420_241002553_n.jpg

PPPIIIICCCCCCCSSSSSSSSSSSS~!~!~~!~!~!~!~!~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCVRv6mZhkA&feature=BFa&list=FL95aTfa-FlIa8LIvl7ZyxiA&lf=mh_lolz

PICS!

pics?

Hes not lieing, its trulley is cute.

My ♥♥♥♥♥-ass dog is cute.

Thats way to formal for me tho smooth:/

It blends