Interesting, but I am not sure why you chose these poses, particularly the first one - you cropped the back half of his body off, as well, a lot of it is out of focus. For the second one, it seems that only his eyes and maybe parts of his ears are in focus. If you are going to take "pet pictures", then maybe you might want to think of this as "animal portraiture" and check out rules for placement of objects in images - rule of thirds, etc. I also, think that your white balance might be off a bit, particularly in the second one.
Other advice, if you are going to post images, you are better off numbering them and posting them all in one post, rather than having two seperate posts. HTH.
WesternGuy