yea fur takes good many tries to get close to looking right. I just remember took a bit to figure out doing the fur on my raccoon in Maya and one part I remember to get it to look good was go extreme on the density which was like in the millions and had to put few layers of the fur for different sizes and such. Well least the face just had 2 layers, one for very small fur like for the nuzzle then longer fur for the basic body fur size.