DeeDee,
the shots look great. I love the lighting and the dogs look good -- especially the Terv which, as James says, is outstanding.

A few questions/comments:
Did you shoot RAW or jpeg? I find that shooting RAW and balancing color for the first shot (always a neutral towel or cloth) will allow me to save it as a shoot parameter and then use the same setting for all photos. I use PhotoShop and ACR.

Who did the baiting?

You can never have too much backdrop. I have 12X10 ft backdrops (WXH) and they're never big enough. For National Specialties, I actually build my backdrops and they're still not wide/tall enough. That's why God invented the cloning tool.

Very nice portraits. As James said, make sure that if you include people in the shot that they look as good as the dog. People will look at themselves and judge the image based on that.

I think you should be very happy with this effort. Now, to see if it makes you any $$$.

Jim