I thought of both ways, and the stuffing hair thing might work....but might also look really awkward from the wrong angles, and be hard to manage. But the same sort of stuff could happen with the other stuff, so. *Shrugs*
Spikey hair... it looks like it's just messy, but in reality, I guess it's a hard thing to master...
Maybe if you took a little Elmer's glue, watered it down, and only spiked the ends of really long bunches of faux fur with it. Or the other idea could work, if it was cut right... ... ...
I think this is one of those things that should be tested, before-hand, else we'll have bald Beastlings.
Heh. Then that's a good reason to handsew. I do 'cuz, well, I've never used a sewing machine before, for multiple reasons. (Access, don't know how...)