@Redfern
First time I ever came across Furries was experiencing an online game called Secondlife.

I used to be a member many years ago, and I clearly remember it being populated by those Furry people.  There seemed to be two popular fetishes on there; Goths and Furries.  Funny thing though, I used to think the Furries were some sort of dress code for Secondlife when I first started using it, and I remember it took me some days (probably weeks) before I realised what it was really about.  I couldn't say what it's like now (probably more furries than ever), but there were a heck of a lot of them back then.

So anyway, you might want to check-out Secondlife if you haven't, it was definitely a haven for Furries :-)