Floofware (floofinition) – Major items of equipment or components intended for use by animals.
In use: “Although laptops and keyboards are not floofware, many pets like to believe otherwise.”
The Dreams Return – Lost Shoe, Found Dog
The dreams returned, which is reassuring. I dream often and vividly, and not having dreams was having a friend away. Good to have them back.
I found myself camping with friends. I say camping, but it was a shelter — roof, floor, and walls, cutouts for windows but sans glass — although it did have a door — where we stayed. That event took place and the others I camped with left to cross the river.
I went to places unknown and then returned to camp again. Unplanned, I lacked food, gear, and shoes. Just trying to figure out how I was going to handle that when I heard the door open.
A woman with her children had arrived to stay for the week. Speaking with them, I discovered that I’d been camping with the woman’s husband the week before. I told them I’d vacate the shelter for them, but they waved that offer away, and offered me their food.
I then I had one shoe (black walking shoe) but not the other. How — where — when — did I lose my shoe? As I’m walking around in one shoe, a small, injured animal, a dog, arrived. I recognized it as an animal I’d been feeding the previous week and that it was a pet that belonged to my neighbor. Grey and brown, the dog resembled a fox. Its wound concerned me. I cleaned the wound with help from the woman, and then fed the dog. The dog seemed pleased and started wagging its tail.
The dream ended.
Floofvesting
Floofvesting (floofinition) – 1. Subscribing and participating in activities and investments which focus on improving animals’ existences.
In use: “Smart floofvesting begins with diet, as many pet owners have learned, as scandals revealed pet food ingredient scams which had dire impact on their pets’ health.”
2. To have a live animal (or animals) draped over you like a blanket, jacket, or sweater.
In use: “Settling down to read required no formal notice; floofvesting began within seconds as the cats and dogs found spaces on his legs, chest and abdomen, and made themselves comfortable.”
Solfloof
Solfloof (floofinition) – Animal who enjoys sunshine.
In use: “Although the cats enjoyed prowling the night, during the day, they were genuine solfloofs, sleeping and preening in the sun, rulers of the night, replenishing their energy.”
Flooftization
Flooftization (floofinition) — 1. A movement to promote global acceptance that animals have equal rights to humans.
In use: “With flooftization, it’s promoted that rights are not anyone’s to issue, whether it’s a matter with gender, sexual orientation, race, etc., with humans, or animals’ rights to be free of abuse.”
2. Changes made to a localization to be more animal considerate.
In use: “As an example of flooftization, more countries are adopted flyovers that allow animals to safely cross high-speed highways without being killed or injured by motor vehicles.”
3. Alterations to a household to create a more animal-friendly domicile.
In use: “Cat trees and pet beds created safe spaces as part of the flooftization and fostering efforts.”
Coyfloof
Coyfloof (floofinition) – 1. Animal that’s a hybrid of several species. The term is adapted from the expression, coywolf, the hybrid animal (part wolf, part coyote, part dog) that’s developed in the last decade in the United States.
In use: “An offspring of a male lion and a female tiger, a liger is a natural coyfloof that’s generally larger than either of its parents.”
2. A shy animal.
In use: “Even though she was large (for a housecat) at twenty-one pounds, she was a coyfloof, willing to be loving to her human, but shunning everyone else by hiding in a closet whenever someone came to the door.”
Bullfloof
Bullfloof (floofinition) 1. A male herbivore who is accepted and kept as a pet.
In use: “Seymour was Marshall’s bullfloof, a rescue who would always be his buddy, and no amount of exasperation from his father about how wrong it was would ever change that.”
2. Nonsense or foolish talk about animals.
In use: “Many people still adhere to the bullfloof that animals are dump, incapable of empathy, and lack the feelings of a human.”
3. Animal nonsense that they expect people to take seriously.
In use: “The house was a wreck, and the cat and the dog, side-by-side on the sofa, tried to sell the bullfloof that they had no idea what’d happened by giving wide-eyed, innocent stares of the, “Who, me?” variety.”
Cyberfloof
Cyberfloof (floofinition) – Any activity involving a computer and an animal, especially housepets.
In use: “A cyberfloof isn’t a pet that’s using a computer to commit a crime (although many animals seen in pictures and videos on the net often steal our hearts).”
“Cats and dogs often turn themselves into cyberfloofs, sitting on keyboards, or blocking monitors, because they’ve noticed that this other creature is stealing their human’s attention.”
Floofiage
Floofiage (floofinition) – 1. A representation of animals for architectural ornamentation.
In use: “Intricately carved from a single fallen oak tree, a floofiage on her front door greeted visitors.”
2. A cluster or aggregate of animals and their fur.
In use: “Every morning when sunshine spilled into the living room, floofiage formed in the center and grew.”
Michael Seidel, writer 