The lesson to be learnt here is: Don't ask a large predator to help you put on a fursuit. You might end up wearing one that's more moist and caustic inside than you'd planned. 83

So as it happens I'm rooming with Scotty the Minotaur at Biggest Little Fur Con, and he said "Hey, could you do a door sign?" The first idea I came up with was Strega and Scotty sacked out on a bed, but that raised the inevitable question of whether they were lovers or whether Strega was going to eat him at some point. Scotty didn't have any problem with that idea and together we came up with the empty fursuit idea.