The pup seems focused on something, at first glance I thought the pup was facing away, you should adjust the shadows and perhaps edit so that viewer focuses on eyes.
Well composed shot but the dog is either deep in the shadows or underexposed. You could try to lift its shadows and find out if any detail can be brought back.
Post edit image is very nice
The human visual system tends to find out of focus areas in front of the subject distracting, but has no issues with things behind the subject being soft. In this shot, there are a lot of out of focus areas close to the camera. This is taking away from your composition.