Blumrich continued making his presence known in the fandom by hanging around both Pro and Con online Furry sites until the date of September 11, 2001. 16 hours later after the tragic incident of 9-11, he would fatefully write in the Yerf newsgroup Yerf.yap the post that would push his fourth in command in the Burned Fur movement, Peter "Hangdog" Schorn, to threaten in writing to kill Blumrich "with his bare hands," this was to be the signal of the beginning of the end of the Burned Furs, and with it, Eric's involvement in it and the furry fandom.