Adorable!! Good choice to put him on a yellow blanket to help boost that warm feel for this challenge. Lighting is a bit harsh, probably from the onboard flash. Perhaps just holding a piece of paper in front of the flash would help diffuse it a little?
Nice expression. This guy is a great subject. The lighting here seems a little harsh. You might try light source offset to one side. That would make great light/shadow play on the face.
Cute dog. :-) The use of flash is creating some distracting shadows and also casting a slightly cooling effect (very slight) to the color. In one way the flash worked in your favor by illuminating the foreground and letting the bg fade out. Glad you didn't use a black border...that would have made the image feel much darker.
All JMO of course. :-) Good luck in the challenge.
He/she is beautiful! There are two things i am marking this down for one the eyes have the animal equivalent of red eye from the flash, the other you have cut part of the paw off! 8