Species Puns

"Chakats... they really are just huge pussies." Furry stories are full of characters exploiting species for jokes. The bad thing is that the critter probably heard the dumb joke a million times before, or worse, probably think it's an insult. Furry stories vary on which word is an insult, and which isn't, and sometimes they fluctuate wildly within the same story to suit the situation (`furball' is an affectionate pet name, and also an insult that the humans hurled at him earlier...which is really strange). But normally species puns are tolerated, laughed about, like they aren't that bad, or are really that funny - when they really wouldn't be.

Instead, the thing that invariably upsets them is any reference to eating another species, such as "so hungry I could eat a horse." Why this isn't taken in jest instead of being taken seriously, or at least ignored, I cannot fathom.