A couple of passes at the creature's head with shorter muzzle and longer neck. There's still a lot of doggy influence as the dreams specifically had the creature be something akin to a police dog remotely animated by a human operator.

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That's not really a helmet on the head. That is the head. As artificially created creatures, they are a mix of biological tissue and cybernetic machine.