Actually, if you use Daz's Genesis figure I'm aware of
three werewolf morphs, not including one for
Anubis 
. I haven't tried the new Lyacaon one, but the others aren't quite what I want for a werewolf so I still use Victoria 4.5 and the Creature Creator. The exception is when I want to show legs going digitigrade, then I use a close-up of the Anubis morph in action. I did this both in the "Silver and Gold" comic and the "Fenrir's Curse" animation. All of those morphs are by RawArt, and it's probably not a coincidence that like his Dog World fur textures - they're for V4.5 but compatible with Genesis. Oh, and his Fox textures come with a fox head morph that I usually dial in some. Remember, you are allowed to combine morphs!
I primarily use Daz Studio 3.5 because I find it easy to use, definitely easier than Poser. Poser has strand hair native to it and has some other tools that make it a bit more powerful, but I decided that none of that matters if I have trouble with basic navigation of the scene. One of those tools lets you graph the splines and movements of the figure, and that is useful in diagnosing weird animation behavior. I don't use DS 4.6 because as mentioned above I don't care for the Genesis werewolf morphs, the interface is new and thus strange and scary, and because it taxes my laptop more. The newest version may work better for you, and since it's free it can't hurt trying it again. There's an online guide for it somewhere, but I learned mainly from experimenting and trolling advice forums.
The surface options are definitely intimidating in Poser. Daz Studio is simpler, and after all the time I've spent messing with it I know maybe half the stuff in that screenshot means.
I see exactly one thing I think you need to fix, and that's the hair when you show the close-up of the ear growing. I wouldn't worry about anything else (OK, if it were me I'd try hard but fail and still worry about everything else
). As for the 2 years of practice, do remember that it was six months before I showed any of my work publicly, and that "Odd" is attempt number three of that scene. I really would advise trying some still scenes so that you can practice and have some instant gratification.