IMO, I would try cropping it to a 4x5 format, so that the dog head is top center and tail is in the top left corner, on the bottom about haft way up the legs, this will cut out a lot of light in the top left and hide missing front paw
You are asking for too general a kind of comments/critique for the Photo Critique section (which has very clear guidelines ), so your thread got moved to the General Gallery.