I started with the basic parts of the character: the body, legs and head because everything else is secondary action (So is the head but I prefer to animate that at the same time as the body)
What I had inadvertently done was made the stretchty legs change in volume as the character moves. I was aware I was distorting the figure but was not thinking about the volume of the character until somebody pointed it out to me.
If I was going to take this further I would introduce some arms, eyes, nose and maybe some fox-ears (all with their own follow through actions.
Distorting the figure during the animation achieves a really nice elastic, flexible feel to the character (but I wouldn't want everything to feel like that).
