Very nice horse fursuit.

Also, I find it interesting that in this photograph, the fur on the tip of his nose is completely in focus to the point that you can see individual strands of it, while the hair on his ears is out of focus. I wouldn't usually think that the difference of one foot would make much of a difference in focus.
All the cameras I've used are either fixed-focus or auto-focus, and I was curious, in a picture like this, would you usually want to set the focus roughly halfway between the tip of the nose and ears, or do you usually set the focus on the front or back of the object?

I use lenses with small Depth of Field and I use aperture to select the areas I want in focus : on this one, I should have close more my aperture to get more things in focus. But fursuiters move a lot and you only have few seconds to get your pic. :/

Sounds like you have almost as much trouble getting fursuiters to stand still as real animals.