Let me begin by congratulating you on your yellow ribbon, very well done. What's his name, Rip Van Winkle?
It's such a hard life, having to be so cute 24/7/365! You've done a marvellous job of capturing his or her character here so well, the end result an image that is well deserving of the title and the ribbon.
As has been commented already the way you have got nice sharp focus on the nose and your chosen aperture for sufficeint DOF on the head has all worked really well. Although we can't even see the eyes I think the way the light highlights the nose this more than makes up for such absence.
The colours and tones in the fur are all absolutely gorgeously reproduced. You can't help but wonder what dreams your lovely dog is experiencing, makes you wish we could communicate better with them doesn't it.