The third pet portrait that I did for our friends was another cat, Moses. He had just gotten a hair cut and seemed a bit embarrassed to have his picture taken with his new shaved look. Fortunately, our friend loved the painting and thought I captured his personality.
Something I also did with each of the paintings was deliberate so that they would all fit together well when they were displayed on a shelf. I painted two of them horizontally and two vertically. And I put a different colored background behind each of them - that made the difference and called attention to each of them as the individual personalities that they are.