Do you remember when and what helped you discover your affinity for furries? If you do, I'd like to hear your stories!
To get the ball rolling I'll start with mine. While I certainly can't pinpoint the exact date I became fixated on anthros, I can absolutely remember getting Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast when I was 7 or 8 (2000ish).
Seeing Tails was all I needed to get hooked, and want to be a cool fox like him. I didn't even have a word for it until I started using the internet years later, but my furry fate was sealed from then onward. It was the catalyst that got me into fantasizing about having fur and a big tail, and got me doodling lots of Sonic art as a kid. While I've long since stopped making Sonic art, Tails still holds a special place in my heart over 20 years later.
Oh, hello me.
I'm old so for me it was Disney's Robin Hood but internet access wasn't really much of a thing when I saw it on TV at age 11, so I fell in love with foxes and spent so much time finding books about them and pictures of them. Seeing one made me so happy -- I was obsessed.
A few years later I got internet access and that lead me to newsgroups. alt.fan.foxes lead to alt.fan.furry which lead to FurrMUCK and...that was it for me.