I started as a wolf, because that's what my username was (and still is) in many places and it was my favorite animal at the time. I then started to like fox features so became a fox/wolf hybrid. I then saw some nice art of mightyena (the Pokemon), and decided that I liked some features of that as well. I've spent the past month or so tweaking it and making a better mental idea in my head of what it looks like, so I think now it's probably just a custom species rather than a three species hybrid.

I know there's stereotypes about certain species (wolves being independent, foxes being very friendly and the like), but I never really paid attention to that while choosing. Although, now I've started personalizing it more, I've started to relate more to my species - we're both disorganized messes. :P

But yeah, my advice is to just pick your favorite animal and see how it goes. You can always change or customize it later.