I've been slowly working my way through this thread and decided to make an account for a number of reasons.. please pardon me if I'm late to something or that something has already been stated, there's a lot to dig through.
A few comments I've seen here are lamenting about the apparent back of sincere concern for abusers in the fandom, mostly from generic semi-popufurs claiming that "these people don't belong", or that we "can't tolerate these people in the community"..
In the mid-2000s, I was heavily active in exposing these animal sex abusers in the fandom. I was sick of the stigma that zoophiles in general experienced; the belief that they're your average hick in a farm in some backwoods area of a rural state, fucking cow in a barn, when the reality is (as you are all seeing now), much more sinister, sadistic, and insidious. I was tired of the fandom shrugging off these sick fucks as "just sick fucks", or "just dogfuckers", and never taking any real stance against it aside from the needless claims that they didn't support this form of animal abuse.
Congratulations, would you like a medal before you turn back to your tablet and continue to draw porn for these pieces of human garbage? The lack of participation in shunning and exposing these animal abusers from "popufurs" angered me, and they only appeared on their soapboxes to make a generic statement before continuing on. Eventually, these same popufurs realized (through the efforts of myself and others) that these animal abusers were commissioning furry porn of their characters with their own pets... and suddenly it was a big deal.
The original tactic was a scorch-the-Earth tactic. Find these members, dredge up all of their information and evidence, and expose it for the fandom to see. As you can imagine, this tactic failed immensely and while it did scare off some small fish, the larger fish took it as a warning to start deleting things, hiding evidence, changing fursonas and usernames, and going underground for a while.
Eventually we became more organized and began finding these users, quietly gathering information, and reporting directly to the authorities... which brings me to the main point: People didn't stop caring, they started going underground, just like the abusers themselves.
After JavaChicken was outed (miserably, what a shit-show that was), did you see how many furries were being arrested and charged? Don't lose faith in the sensible members of the community.
We have a very small group of heavily-vetted members quietly collecting evidence.. the problem goes far, far deeper than you can possibly imagine. There are large, serious groups of zoophiles (particularly prevalent in the Pacific-Northwest), brothels, and animal abuse rings run and used by furries. The thing about these abusers is that they don't mention it, you'd have absolutely no clue that these people are zoophiles or animal abusers, and they bump elbows with "popufurs". The small fish are the users who use the zeta symbols or outright state that they're zoophiles.
I was involved with this for years, but eventually had to cut back on the work and take some time for myself, this shit is seriously emotionally draining and I became numb and angry after seeing just how deep the rabbit hole goes. I can't even look at the censored images in here, it's just too much.
What's so mind-blowing to me is how someone like this Kero could be so prevalent in the community and yet be interested in the most horrendous, atrocious shit I've ever heard of.. normally the well-known furries in the spotlight tend to use an alternate username or use TOR servers and chatrooms as opposed to something like Telegram (seriously????).
An interesting (and sad) thing that I discovered in my work is that many (if not most) zoophiles are victims of child sexual abuse. They were either groomed or abused by an adult sexually, or were groomed/abused/introduced specifically into zoophilia when they were kids. The result that I've seen is that a huge amount of zoophiles are also interested in underage ("cub") art. I don't exactly know what the psychological connection between the two is, or if there is one at all, but it leads me to believe that an interest in "cub porn" can be connected to this early sexual trauma.
While I was never directly involved with zoosadists specifically, I know that this community is huge as well. I couldn't handle looking at regular animal sex abuse, let alone zoosadism.
The biggest problem that you experience when bringing punishment to animal sex abusers is getting law enforcement to take them seriously. You'll need to do all of the leg work, draw all of the lines, and lay it out as straightforward as possible.. they don't like to do the investigating in these cases and I can't blame them.
In areas where bestiality is legal, you can get law enforcement off their ass by using other laws such as distribution of bestiality material, possession of bestiality material, or just by the sex acts themselves.
One of the biggest problems with the JavaChicken situation was that it was a female human with a male dog.. most animal control officers either don't know how to handle or proceed with a situation like that, or don't believe it falls under animal abuse laws. There were other laws that JavaChicken was violating (IIRC licensing requiring dogs to be neutered, her dogs were not neutered and did not have vasectomies), but the police didn't take it seriously in the end. Unfortunately... one of Java's dogs got the short end of the stick and had to be rehomed because of the aggressive behavior he displayed due to the abuse.
If there is penetration going on (human penetrating an animal in some way), the police are far, far more likely to get off their asses as long as you do most of the legwork.
I've rambled on long enough, but felt the need to post this because it made me happy to see people taking this issue seriously again in the fandom.....
If I can give one tip for this, it's that you should form a small, extremely tight-knit, heavily-vetted, private group where you can gather evidence. Start with the small fish and you'll be lead to the big fish. Shut your mouth and don't get involved in the public exposing parties, they only work on small fry.
If you have any questions, I'd love to help.. I'm still working my way through this thread.
TL;DR - People still care about animal abuse, they just gather evidence privately.
