I'm not sure this theory holds up with feline therians since most felines are solitary in nature.

I agree with @Teivor Tulpas are intelligent and separate. They may be created in the mind of an entity, but they are often taken as separate consciousnesses. I would say that when we think of them as separate characters, they have their own personality, opinions and feelings. Yes, they are still part of our conscious or subconscious mind, but they are capable of making decisions for themselves and being independent. They are basically just an invention of our minds, but they are what we create them to be. So when we think of them as other/separate entities, then they are perceived by us as separate. Or at least that's my understanding and Jeffer/tulpa agrees with me.

Therian communities in general and TG in particular are places where I feel at home. Where I feel accepted and embraced. It's nice to finally be somewhere where you're not looked at as a weirdo. I love it because it's a place where I don't have to put on a front and I can be myself. It's also amazing in that I can share my experiences and make friends with beings who understand me. I am grateful to have discovered TG and will try to do my best to make others and newcomers feel comfortable here. I admire you so much and thank you for creating and maintaining TG our staff

No matter what age, pup or adult; I think we should all be careful of online safety anywhere. Both on tg and off tg.

my personal theory is as follows, based off of what i've seen:

The reason a lot of people put so much emphasis on the amount of canine & feline therians usually stems from the idea of therianthropy being a past life when it comes to Spiritual Therianthropy. This causes an uproar, such as "there can't possibly be so many wolves!" when in reality, there very well could be. (using wolves as my example here since they're the ones that i've seen the most uproar/discourse around.)

In reality, someone could be a wolf-therian due to their soul being wolfen, someone could also be mistaking their werewolf theriotype for a regular wolf (tbh i think this is highly likely. There's not much talk in regards to theriomythics outside of this website, and many feel forced to use the term otherkin even if it doesnt fully fit their experience. I fell into this group myself.).

Also: most of the discourse I've seen completely forgets the existence of psychological therianthropy and tends to view it as a strictly spiritual experience, which does a disservice to the whole community.


I do also think that the social behaviours of said theriotypes can come into play too, like both posts above. So ultimately it's kind of a mix of reasons why there's so many canines and felines.

The first part is an interesting idea. We may just not be seeing the theriotypes that wouldn't seek out these communities as often. I don't think it suggests everyone is a therian though...but it definitely would account for why so many wolves tend to gather together. Not as much in regards to foxes though, who are only semi-social, which is what I noted from meeting others offline as well.

Someone I know had the theory that since canine and feline animals are more social, that could be why there seem to be more, over antisocial animals. Correct me if im wrong, but canine/feline animals tend to seek community over, say, reptiles. It could be that they're more prevalent for that reason.
However, another friend proposed that this theory may suggest that everybody could be a therian. I don't know if I quite agree with that, but it definitely is a proposition.

I think that being a hypochondriac is entirely possible and it wouldn't surprise me if it made up some percentage of alterhumans. I don't know if I'd feel it's valid in this case.

Alright, I'm back with some more.

Spending a lot of time studying an animal of just being around one; This might be a not-so reasonable explanation, but it very well could be one for some people, spreading time around animals, fascinated, envying them, when I was little I would look outside and see a fox every once in a while, and just think to myself "why can't I move like them? I want to be like that" same thing with squirrels but I don't have a squirrel theriotype so that's a little irrelevant xd, anyways, that probably wasn't the main reason I have a fox theriotype, but it could be a factor of some sort.

Being a hypochondriac; *sighs loudly and pinches the bridge of my nose* I really don't like this one, but here we are, what were we doing? explaining this? Alright, so anyways, being a hypochondriac means you hear about something and you automatically think you have it, a lot of the time it's due to lack of attention and wanting to be different, but sometimes being a hypochondriac can /sometimes/ develop the condition, just forcing yourself to believe that you have whatever it is, in this case, alterhumanity, forcing yourself to believe you have this can cause your mindset to change, to perceive yourself as if you had always been this way, even if you hadn't, you start trying so hard to think like that creature that you can develop shifts, and involuntary in-human experiences, I find this explanation to be.. unlikely, to say the least.

Feel free to share your opinions on the theries i've shared, and feel free to add your own theories, I'd love to hear them.

I was reading this and I saw "pup reps" does that mean there are multiple pup reps? I only know of Avis. I get being intimidated by the staff members though, Tornir was a bit scary at first but she's really just a goofball who keeps us in line :>