There is no difference. Anthropomorphics = furry.

For one thing, you can find furries that get horny for any fucking mascot. I 'member Tony the Tiger being "sexually harassed" by furries on twitter.

If you can think of any animalistic or anthro character, there's a very big chance furries want to fuck it.

For me it tends to be realism vs exaggerated qualities? I think these look like furry characters because they have realistic body proportions, structure, and expressions despite the animal faces and features vs something like Mickey Mouse or Sonic the Hedgehog. This allows someone to more easily see in them the physical features humans find attractive, even a lot of subtle ones considering these characters aren’t sexualized in their official art. It’s not perfect and obviously there are people who have cartoonish fursona’s and there’s cartoonish furry porn out there, but it’s a basic observation

The gradient from "cute" to "horny" is difficult to describe, but clear to see.

to me, just some guy, "a furry" is a person with this particular set of desires or sympathies, and an animal mascot is a marketing function of a business. Entirely subjective, reflexive and subject to cross over.

I have no idea but the eyes and the smile definitely give a different vibe than most mascots.

was it made by a person with passion for the art, or a soulless corporation for the purpose of marketing and advertising? Usually, you can tell simply by the quality of the art which it is.