Second Life's avatar system was primarily designed around the humanoid form. Fortunately, enterprising individuals found that with creative use of animation files you could do a heck of a lot more, by making enterprising use of joints and body parts. Some came more easily, such as feral types, but what about those with six limbs?

Initially, the workaround was to have the back legs tied to the front, which ended up with back legs that "pumped" when you walked. Back around late '06 one of the people who worked with Lost Furest, unsatisfied with this, went and created a new animation set that used the "feet" to control the rear legs and the "upper legs" for the front legs. This led to a much improved and less clunky way to do 'taurs in SL.

This avatar started under that original AO, then when Mickey's 'taur AO came out I quickly converted over to that. When I found my inner dragon, so to speak, I pretty much stopped using it, but then Kinzart Kreetures came out with a new awesome-looking snow leopard anthro using sculpts in 2011, so I scavenged it for parts for this sort-of-final revision of my Chakat Swiftwind avatar.