Valentines Pet Protrait

[Mosephus]

What Color Background would be Best?

I'm shooting this as a Valentines Gift for my wife and using our Chocolate Lab as the subject. I was thinking a red or pink background but now black. I'm going to have it appear like he's gone through a box of valentines chocolates with the box and wrappers everywhere.

Would a black background be ok for this?

[cdpits]

Depending on his shade of chocolate, I think I'd go with the red . Thinking about the shade of chocolate labs I know, the black would be too much while the red should bring out some rich highlites in his coat.