My red squirrel

My second Model will be of the beautiful British red squirrel. This little blighter has been the vain of my life. I have been modeling this squirrel for a long time and i have been making good headway but i was never satisfied with the arms of this model. Its was so infuriating. For the model i edit poly ed a cylinder for both the tail and the body which was going beautiful. Then i cut the image in half creating and using a symmetry modifier. This was all very good until got too the hand of the squirrel. I have a few images of the first attempt of the arms. the top of the arm only had three edges too start with so straight away it was a little awkward to model already. Then when it went down to the joint or elbow it just got stupid because on the outer elbow it looked alright, but the second i changed view point the inner elbow where the joint is looked very peculiar and 2d. Now getting too the hands and fingers of this rodent proved too be and even more irritating blunder. In my first attempt of the hand/paw i only modelled the palm and the finger nails of the squirrel missing out the actual finger. After deciding too deleted the whole arm of the squirrel i re modelled the arm back too the fingers. I did this by selecting the hollow edges where i deleted up too, and held down shift and extended using the move tool. Once i got to the fingers i re attached a polygon to the hole to cover it and sliced it in too three polygons once i did that i extruded each polygon and repeated the process until i did it too all fingers.