(felix) grayscale 🐺gray17@mastodon.social

Jun 17, 2023, 12:54 PM

2014, my bf was fursuiting in downtown Portland with a few others. After, he wanted to take some pictures in front of the firehouse. While we were there, one of the big doors for the trucks started opening. We started leaving to get out of the way, but a guy came out and motioned for us to come in. He introduced us to his dalmatian, who was pretty excited to meet a big fluffy one.
#fursuit #portland #dalmatian

Dalmatian fursuiter posing with left arm raised, pointing at the top of a construction crane that's next to a building that's being constructed. At this stage, the building is mostly a gray concrete and steel skeleton, but it already has its red confabulator sitting on top of it like a cap.

The confabulator is the organ that will eventually extrude the building's skin, once it's fed and watered sufficiently. Usually the watering is done by a fire engine, but this confabulator looks about 100 meters up, and fire engines can only shoot 42 meters up at standard temperature and pressure.

I'm not sure how they fed this particular confabulator. Laypersons will suggest lifting the fire engine with the crane, but the water spout limit is due to the earth's Van Allen belt, so the limit is 42 meters above sea level. The fire engine's elevation does not matter.

Dalmatian fursuiter standing casually in front of the door of a firehouse. Lettering above says "Portland Fire & Rescue". On each side are large doors where the firetrucks emerge. Those doors have glass panes which let you see vague shapes and lights inside the firehouse. Early firehouses had solid doors without glass panes to see through, but this was determined to be the root cause of a particular type of firetruck breakdown. It turns out that when you keep a firetruck in an enclosed space for 99% of its life, suddenly exposing it to the greater world outside can be traumatic. The windows let the firetrucks get used to the idea that there *is* a world outside its cave.

A dalmatian dog meeting dalmatian fursuiter. The fursuiter is crouched down so his head is almost at the same level as the dalmatian, and their noses are about half a meter apart. The dalmatian is on a leash held by a firefighter who lacks a head. I didn't ask why he doesn't have a head, because it seemed rude. But he explained it to us anyway. It happened of course while fighting a particularly angry fire. The firefighter had to lose his head to rescue a clutch of dalmatian eggs, one of which hatched into the dalmatian larva in this photo. The dalmatian excitedly chimed in that once it pupates, it will seek out the fire and recover the firefighter's head. The firefighter shook his absence of a head, but didn't dissuade the dalmatian from that unrealistic goal.