Greetings from the Critique Club!
Love the dog's expression and demeanor, glad to see you listed why you chose to desat the image. Not too crazy about the bleached-out white parts of the dog; being able to master control of those whites is a big part of doing well here. I believe  Tiberius' image of Snowy came in second. Snowy is a pure white cat but Tiberius consistently manages to light Snowy subtly enough that he gets all those wonderful soft gray tones in that white fur.
What perplexes me is the noise in the bg. Then I saw your settings. I feel that the very, very slow shutter speed you used - 1/8th is just too slow to capture anything with a pulse (see the slight blur in the left ear?) - along with the fairly high ISO caused you the most in terms of problems here. It would have been better to go with a faster shutter speed to capture movement (at least 1/100th) and, assuming you don't have a real flash yet, use the pop-up flash with just something as simple as a layer of bubblewrap taped onto the surface and an angled aluminum pie plate as a reflector to light from overhead.
Hope this all makes sense, feel free to pm me with any questions
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