I can not remember the exact step by step I used so this is not in any specified order, Cropped, Adjusted Exposure, Shadows and Highlights, hues and saturation, curves, cloned out some minor distractions burned a couple of spots in the white fur, auto contrast levels and colors, contrast and brightness. resized reduced noise and saved.
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3 - Lovely looking dog, but there seems to be a few issues, likely pp, here and there. The corner of the eye looks odd, whether due to desat or what not sure, the outline of the fur/dog looks dodged and the background color is too harsh in my opinion. Perhaps a different angle and not so tightly cropped, to give more room for 'the Shake' to be seen, may have made this better in my opinion.
looks like he/she was cut and pasted against the red BG ... also, the over white eyeballs seem a bit unnatural to me ... seems like a really focused dog ...