Here is a critique on myself:

For starters I had many problems that i should have gotten help with sooner so that got me behind on the point of where I want to be on my model by today. I wanted a full body with tail and ears on head (not detailed).
The topology - I think is alright over all.
 Realistic - Work in progress model... From what I have so far it does have a dog like look and feel so far.
Detail - For the model is in progress there is not much rendered detail and most of that will be in the face, which what I am going to be working on last.
I am behind on where I should be at this point. I feel that the full body should have been done tail and head and I should have been working on rendering out the detail in the body and face.
But since this is the first time I have worked with this program and I am just learning it on my own basically It has been slow going.

I feel though that I have actually accomplished a lot the last few times i have been working on my model because I had solved some of my issues on my own by tinkering around. Once finding the solution this process I figured out helped me work farther along on a slightly quicker pace. It would help me also, quiet drastically probably, if I would set hot keys instead of scrolling through menus. A need to get done.