I’m talking like Ursula or the French spider from from James and the giant peach. Don’t give me some conventionally attractive humans (though humans are totally allowed) please.
Personally mine was Goldie from Rock-a-doodle. I probably watched that movie 100 times on VHS as a kid.
I’m not a furry but do they claim that was the first one? Surely there must have been something before that …
Still a good pick.
I’ve generally heard the origin explained as coming from an offshoot of the general scifi community in the late 70s to early 80. There are a lot of animal people in sci fi (things like aliens designed after animal people, or stories about animals given human traits and characteristics, or people being spliced with animal dna), and fantasy stuff which has a related audience, and some people particularly liked that trope.