Shit, like yeah, Robin Hood, Warner Bros. Cartoons, a little-known Canadian animated movie called Rock & Rule, and Fritz the Cat.
Oh! Secret of NIMH.
For me, primarily a combination of Beauty and the Beast, Star Fox, and TLK, with the latter’s sequel pushing me over the edge (thanks to Kovu also awakening my queerness…)
Felidae and Watership down (the old version). Let me explain:
TV shows like rescue rangers, gummy bears and similar definitely played a big role, but the two above mentioned movies played a huge role in how I first thought about the furry fandom.
Felidae and the old version of Watership down, for those who are not familiar with it, are not for kids. However, I ended up watching them as a kid on TV, staying up late. I don’t remember in which order I watched them, but I did so years apart and both haunted me in some horrifying but fascinating way.
Anyways, many years later when I stumbled upon my first ever adult furry content site I could not understand who would watch this. I liked it, but I thought I was odd and that there would be no way other people would like such a thing as well. And so I ended up convincing myself that the site only existed to give animators of adult animated movies like Felidae and Watership down some drawing practice, but that it was strictly a professional matter xD
Hard to say, but I think a big influence was “The Rescuers” movie that came out in 1977, I was pretty into it as a kid. Essentially I’ve been a furry for as long as I’ve been alive, I just didn’t have a word for it until I found the fandom.