I would never meet someone off the net for a sexual experience, but its nice to meet with other people just to talk and make friends.

I have met one person from bf and it was the best thing i could have done.

good luck to everyone else and be careful

No one that I've seen want's to have a gather.

It's a trust issue, and too few have it. I know I don't, paranoid screw that I am.

I've only met one other zoo IRL, and i'm still in touch.
trouble is, meeting other zoos is difficult to do, what with living with other people so you have to find excuses, or in that they are usually quite a distance away... :( all sorts of variables...

ah well, there must be someone near everyone - at least that's my view! ^_^

AMen . I meet lots of people and they are ACROSS COUNTRY or in ANOTHER COUNTRY !!
One is in Australia DAMMIT :blush:
I wish I had tons of money so that I can make WEEKLY Trips to meet all of these people here .
The only advice is to 1) Talk a lot on IMS and Emails
2) Talk on the PHONE so that you can create a RAPPAPORT with them
3) Make sure you have a way there and BACK I mean to get stranded :unsure:
Give your self LEEWAY :D

y kno Personally I feel guilty because Even though I lvoe animals with a passion (DOGS HORSES ETC) I feel like I have to get married and settle down ...
Do you have that feeling or how do you feel about Dating >

:beer: Curious1looking has the model for how to meet others. It is great to see the information out there for others.

Thank you for the thread.

Bassettlvr

There are some really nice people in this community, and yeah a few of them I've love to have a chat over a beer or a cup of coffee. But I'm realistic enough to know that probably won't happen, and that's fine. After all, BF is a community, not a matchmaking service. :lol:

Remember, when all is said and done, until you meet someone face-to-face all you really know about them is what you read in their text or see in their avatar/profile.
Caution is a cornerstone of the zoo/beast genre, and meeting people irl is no exception.

Until i've exchanged phone numbers [i'm a freak and have a seperate mobile for online friends :blush: :blush: ] and gotten at least a years worth of conversations under our collective belts I wont even consider the idea of meeting someone from another forum, be it zoo or otherwise. I've met one person from a forum in real life, and to be honest it was then I discovered just how different our views in regards to being a zoo happened to be. I prefer to build a relationship up with an animal partner, I don't "train" them to do things, nor do I encourage anything, if it happens it happens, if I ever thought i'd somehow tricked my companion into engaging in a sexual relationshipn with me I could honestly never forgive myself. So meeting someone who quite simply wanted sexual gratification and would use every trick in the book to get it from an animal ... it didn't sit right with me. So that put me off meeting fellow zoos from the internet. Then you get the people who build up a fantasy, they have no experience, just a collection of photos and whimsies they've created in their head about what they'd love their life to be. Which is all well and good, but there comes a point where it is ludricous. Sometimes, just sometimes, I would like to talk to someone who genuinely knew what it was like to have a relationship with an animal and not just concentrate on the sexual aspect of it. Which makes me sound far too weird.

Rambling now, so back to the point; if you really want to meet fellow zoos then, as everyone else has said, take your time, and remember online not everyone is as they appear.

Its really sad the number of us here, compared to the number of us who have actually met another in person. Id be open to meeting people, just to be able to have someone to talk to about my love for animals. Its sad that the world we live in, and the people in it keep us from being ourselves in public. At least some of us.

I mostly have people im me though aim. If they are skeezers or just weird (or my personal favorite, the hey lets talking about what you do so I can say mean things or jerk off well you talk) I simply ignore them. If you are someone I ignored, don’t take offence.

When I 1st signed up I was having issues with being zoo. I felt so alone and I would walk down the street a person would look at me and I would instantly look at the ground wishing they would not look at me, because they must know, why else would they look at me? I felt so wrong and dirty, almost like I needed to hide under a rock. The forum did not make me feel much better. I don’t take much said online to serious anyway.

Then I was imed by a really cool person. Who felt the same way as I did. We got to talking and decided to meet. I had my mom take me to meet her and her mom. The whole time during lunch my mom bitched to her mom about how "back in the day" people use to make friends with the neighbors...and how soda was a quarter and all that other dumb old people stuff that make them feel self important. We barely talked during lunch. We have started talking on the phone and iming and texting and we really get along great. It made me feel super excellent and not alone anymore. My zoo buddy is awesome; I don’t know what I would do without her. I feel normal again.

So just like everyone else who posted, I would say be picky. Talk with your zoo buddy a ton before you ever meet.

I personally have met probably 50+ zoos both on an individual basis and at "zoo cons" I have actually been to the largest zoo meet in the world (which is a regular gathering). I do meet many zoos off of forums like this one. The personals section on this forum is priceless when it comes to meeting others with a similar interest. Anyways in most cases I do base how I meet other zoos on common sense as well as the feelings I get when chatting with them online. It can’t be denied that there are zoo out there that are just really weird people if not plain crazy. I know I have talked to many people online who have been interested in meeting. Maybe one out of every fifty I talk to is the real deal and not looking for some kind of hook up. I usually base whether or not I will meet him/her in person after getting to know each other via chat for some time (can be weeks can be months it all depends on when you reach your comfort level). Then when I do finally make arrangements to meet it is always in a public place with no animals present of course. It is just safer that way (a restaurant or mall are really good places to hang out and chat openly). It is important to pick a place where you can talk about zoo stuff as well as normal conversations. Because god knows the zoo side of things will come up during the first meet, it has at everyone that I have done.

If all goes well on that first meet I usually plan another meeting and then go from there.

I have met many zoos locally about 25 or so total and quite a few of them I hang out with on a regular basis. I am rather spoiled when it comes to having friends who share a similar interest. Come to think of it I do not think I have any “normal” friends, as everyone I know is either zoo or beast. I wish others luck when it comes to meeting people who share the same interest as I know just how amazing it can be to connect on those levels and share something similar.

Id love to meet face to face with ppl from here but yes it would need to be taken slowly & a good friendship base built first

I have only meet face to face with two people who prefer to live our life style.
Alas one was a member of this site but old age and ill health has taken him from us, and the other is one of the night security patrol men who has a thing with his four legged assistants

thats reeeally the problem with me..meeting ppl actually.....also things r very conservative where i live...but i keep travelling and i wud really like to meet ppl in real life...not necess on a k9 level...but gen too...n maybe play it from there....at least itll be a n experience

I'm sorta looking for the same thing. Another zoo to share life with and do things together. I wanted to say "but not on a sexual level", but, at some point it may come up. I have never been big on sex with humans, but if there are a couple dogs in the mix, it can be quite fun. Also you never know when you might need a little help, or even a cameraman(person). It would at least be cool if the other person was open sexually so there wouldn't be any hang-ups.
As for meeting others, which is what this thread is about, I have gone over lots of the details in another similar thread.
Yes, I have met around 200 other zoos. Yes, it was scary as hell the first couple times. I still get nervous sometimes, but that is just me. I'm not much of a people person. Heh, go figure.
The best advice I can give is:
get to know the person really well online first. Trust what your instincts say about them.
Meet in a public place. and,
Let the person know what expectations you have beforehand.

You can make some of the best friends of your life in other zoos. I did!