I hope everyone's enjoying a special #CoatiMonday! We start the month with another of my own pictures, this of my running into a field of ghost paws and making what's surely a bunch of new friends up to no mischief whatsoever!

Original picture at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62052493/ and this marks a departure for me in that I tried adding little bits of fringe to the fur, the better to look a little shaggy and maybe a bit more natural.

It's a late summer #CoatiMonday around where I am, so what bettet time to take a last pre-Halloween trip to the amusement park? And what might you see there? How about the welcoming embrace of a bronze coati statue, definitely a statue and not the actual thing right, commending you for coming around for the fun?

Picture here kindly done by @hexadoodle --- original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62041223/ --- based on a statue at Idlewild Park (Ligonier, Pennsylvania) in which Duke the Dragon (mascot of Dutch Wonderland, their sister park in Lancaster) gives you encouragement as you try pulling the sword from the stone. And doesn't that look like fun?

Hoping everyone is having a golden AUgust! For this #CoatiMonday I'm enjoying the view from an orb and shining like a fool.

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61785780/ and the slightly silly idea that inspired my current and oddly popular icon. Of course I'm never going to turn down a chance to be an interesting material and I am very proud how the metallic effects came out this time.

Is it #CoatiMonday already? Well, I had a great time seeing a bunch of little friends this past #VoreDay and I don't know when I've ever seen them so thrilled, just active and screaming my whole visit. Everyone was so thrilled to know my tail's got an imaginative new hobby!

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61693961/ and please don't worry that I might be turning vicious unstoppable pred. It's all in good fun no matter how thin I'm looking and maybe need to eat!

Sharing something novel this #CoatiMonday ... the first time I've tried drawing an icon! I knew it would have to have a less interesting composition and heavier outlines and simpler contrast than a normal picture would, but it seemed worth trying.

Especially as this #CoatiMonday I wanted to debut a bright, shiny look for myself! So I noticed August starts with Au, as in gold, and wouldn't it be fun to spend the month as a shiny and precious metal? Right? So here we are!

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61808987/

Ready for a #CoatiMonday you can't help but laugh about? Me too! And fortunately I fell into the clutches of Purple the Tickle 'Monster', who needs the laughter produced by tickling for sustenance.

Little could Purple suspect that I enjoy being tickled and am so ticklish that _while watching the stream of this being drawn_ I started giggling in real life as the art cursor moved across my character's feet.

So anyway I am happy to be in this situation although, oh, looking at my left forepaw and my tail there? There might be an reversal coming, purely by accident. No way to know!

Thanks very much to @hexadoodle for hooking me up with Purple and also for drawing this. The original is at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61721900/

What's better than a #CoatiMonday? How about a two-coati Monday? Today I share another of my own pictures --- original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61591770/ --- with a scene requested by the mysterious Rota Redom. This one depicts her as a young coati enjoying a spot of kite-flying, and the kite is either eldest fandom coati me or maybe a kite based on me. Not sure.

This was a fun one to draw, particularly in figuring a way to get two characters who were far apart in the same frame at once. Also in looking at pictures of Chinese dragon kites because the long string of circular discs looked like a great way to do a coati tail, which the picture couldn't possibly fit anyway.

So did you know that dates, the fruit, are really good at being fruits? If you haven't had any lately you should give them a try, you might be pleasantly surprised! Don't try these. I'm very busy enjoying myself here and we don't want a #CoatiMonday this adorable to change.

This lovely picture is a commission from @cutepencilcase who, you can see, understands well the benefits of adorable raccoon-like animals having good fruits!

For this #CoatiMonday it's a visit with one of my relatives! This cousin has landed a cozy gig being kept in the ZooAmerica exhibit, adjacent to Hershey Park (entry granted with admission to the amusement park). For some reason they keep the coatis in the nocturnal-animal enclosure, which is why my photograph is not the sharpest you'll see.

But they're looking well, and were doing some wonderful curling while standing on the branch to press their head against the branch, which is very cozy. And as you see, all my stories about our tails were if anything understated.

My love, and bride of 13 years now, BunnyHugger noticed a couple of _Peanuts_ strips from the early 60s when rabbits would appear, mostly in the form of Freida nagging Snoopy into chasing bunnies that he would rather be friends with. Charles Schulz didn't often draw animals besides dogs and whatever Woodstock Birds are, so seeing rabbits in happy poses stood out.

For this #CoatiMonday --- our anniversary --- I had to adapt the header panes from the 11 August 1963 comic ( https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1963/08/11 ) to our happy situation and here's how it came out.

Also please know that our human'sonas have a similar difference in height, so I often do stand resting my head on hers, or nuzzling her hair, and we both really like that arrangement of things.

My own art, to be posted to FurAffinity this evening.