I use a fur Jpeg on the hair it works like the hair texture if used with a slight transparency. If you use full transparency the hair won't show at all. With some hair I use a bump map also. I found some nice free fur jpegs on
Renderosity as well as the background for this render. The fur textures I've found were from an artist on
Renderosity named Teresa Tyllo the file name is tyllo_animalfur. the surf backgrounds were found at
Renderosity as well only there wasn't a readme file with them, the name of the file is SurfBackgroundPack. They are high resolution and I really had to make the image smaller to get it to post into the album. Anyway, I am glad you liked the picture and thanks for viewing!!