User Profile

Greetings! My name is Hegdish, but people typically call me Heg. The name is weird and not the cutest sounding (it’s Yiddish slang for disorder), but I’ve had it for ages and that's how lots of people know me, so it's unlikely to change.

On a personal level, I relate most strongly with the coyote. He’s inside me, rather like a totem. My fursona is not so much a character, but basically just me in the form of an anthropomorphic coyote. I am, however, most comfortable expressing myself through different toony animal critters. I find fursuit expression to be far and away the most pure and uncluttered means of expression for me; I feel I communicate better through fur and movement than I generally achieve with words. There’s a deep transformation streak in me which drives the need to “become” different creatures and then go about as such. So, for me at least, when I’m suiting as a critter, that critter is real.

Having been inspired by such things as theme park characters and The Banana Splits as a youngster, I've somehow always understood that animal costuming is where I’m comfortable. I knew that someday I would make it part of my life. By the early '90s, I'd gotten heavily into mascot work, but it wasn't until the late '90s that I actually discovered Furry. However, I needed to take a personal journey and understand more about myself and what made me furry before integrating into the Furry community in 2008 and seeking out my first fursuit, Satellite Rat!

I seem to be rather rare as a fur in that I am not very technologically minded, although I do fit lots of other nerdy archetypes, including the tragically beige interests of commercial airliners and airports, and road maps and highway systems. These interests are related to my love of travel and “feeling” new places.