Hehe, thanks. I've also considered removing the fur but for now I'd like to keep it as long as possible. I think it looks pretty cute now apart from the head which still looks a little scary.

Here's my UV layout. Basically body, tail, arms and ears. The other pieces belong to the "fingers"/claws, I'm not really sure what happened with their UV's.

I'm not sure if these are good UV maps, actually they're probably not. Just don't really know how to solve it in a different way than doing cylindrical mapping for the different parts.