The furry code (artwork)
The big deciding factor appears to be: if a character is furred and also has human-like hair, they are furry. Otherwise they are a cartoon animal.
Chip and Dale did not have hair. Gadget did. Gadget was adopted by the furry fandom. Chip and Dale were not.
Babs and Buster Bunny and the Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister Dot) did not have hair. Fifi La Fume and Minerva Mink did. And guess which ones became furry icons.
It's also worth noting that when people do end up adopting non-haired cartoon characters' identities for their own furry purposes, they end up adding hair.
Separate hair and fur is one of those things that always bothered me about furry art, and I specifically chose to do that in the furry-universe versions of the Pernicious characters because it was specifically supposed to be a furry universe, not a universe where humans evolved from animals. (This is in opposition to Unity, where it actually is set in the distant future of this universe, and many of the species are based on animals taking roughly similar evolutionary paths to humans. There is a very specific reason for that.)
Long story short, I still don't consider myself a furry artist (or really an artist of any sort, I just like to draw comics for fun). There's just a lot of overlap between what I do and particular aspects of furry characters.
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