Researching Movement

I researched human and animal movements to see how to rig and animate my character. I will be referring to these a lot while I animate because they are so helpful.

I started looking at human movement but it was hard to apply it to a creature with four legs. I couldn't figure out how four legs moved together.

Human Movement

Animal Movement

I looked into dog and cat movements and found this fitted more with my chair.

I found the last image of the dog movements the most helpful because it showed a range of velocity movements. 
This video is incredibly helpful also.