There was no problem with having an animal avatar until someone pissed someone else off, and he started calling his avatar a furry, stop the god damn cycle, the only reason you think that they're bad is because you think that you have to give into peer pressure or be ridiculed for eternity, when the reality is, no one else here has that much of a problem with it.
Inb4rookiecomeswithhisusualst uff.