The art itself is good. I think the "weirdness" is almost entirely because there's a whole culture and group of people who have strong feelings about this so it's hard to look at it and not think "furry". Maybe more specifically, what looks weird is how human he looks (i.e. the hair style) and it feels like he is giving me bedrooms eyes.
If you are trying to make furry characters less... furry... maybe take a look at adult cartoons that use animals like Bojack Horseman or Aggretsuko. The characters are animals that look like humans, not humans that look like animals.