You know where your inspirations come from when you start stuff that appear similar to what you saw. To clarify that, this little species swap is directly inspired by the dog morph that can be seen in the movie "The 10th Kingdom". It's been bugging me now for a few months, as I've felt the need to do something like it, and I finally did it on one of my new generic OCs, who has yet to be named and set... But hey, this is pretty great, right?

Pokemon by Game Freak
Inspiration and sequence reference from The 10th Kingdom by Hallmark