This mural detail is of a door at a veterinary clinic.  The animals are life-sized and seem to delight the clients.
Veterinary Clinic 1
I used my daughter's dog, Ooah, a blue merle Australian shepherd, as the model here.  He really is amazing: for the detail work on the painting, I actually got him to pose for a couple of minutes at a time, in order to get the painting as life-like as possible. 
Oh, I had fun with the leash!!!
I decided to put this in at the last minute as a kind of joke... and it worked!  The doorknob is real, but there have been times that people have reached for the leash, not realizing that it is tromp l'oeil!
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