When I made my fursona I kind of skipped over rigging it properly, but that oversight has now been remedied. I spent the time yesterday and today to rerig my sona using Rigify, and the rig now boasts the same powerful controllers I had on the Hisuian Growlithe, this time with a total of 769 bones.
The GIF above gives you an idea of the various controllers I now have available. There's a higher-res video of the clip in the attachments.
I didn't just do this for myself though, as there is an art trade coming up involving my character, and it needs to be rigged properly to work for that project.