Also, I see you just joined this month! Welcome!

Be sure to come and read a few more of my posts and notice how I have a structure and a template to my posts, Steemit Curators can be a little bit more intense, You want to start a Post Series, something that is interesting/informative and relatively diverse, you need to try and post stuff that people may be interested in, only posting about your lil dog and the beach is not enough content to make for a good follower fan base.

I say if you are gonna write about your dog, do some research, tell us about her breed, other breeds like here, temperment, tricks she can do, do a proper full length article.

Adding your personal thoughts and feelings is important too (obviously).
But try not skimp too much on the content of your posts, be sure to read the "Markdown Guide" to help make your posts look more attractive too :)

https://steemit.com/steemit/@ottodv/handy-steemit-markdown-guide-with-samples