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We've posted about origami dogs previously. Since then we've come across a ton of other fantastic paper dogs that also deserve to be highlighted. We'll start out this post with this beautiful looking dog folded from a sheet of mulberry paper.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nyankoorigami/13670687625/ Dog, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by nyanko sensei Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine 144   This doberman pinscher design is still one of our all time favourite paper dog designs. Each of these is folded from different kinds of paper with different kinds of paint.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/62652453@N08/19416850598/ Doberman Pinscher, Designed by Ares Alanya and Folded by Mariano Diagrams available in the 17th Tanteidan Convention book   This is an origami version of Yoko, Hande Orhun's dog.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/handeorhun/16239495090/ Greyhound, Designed by Ronald Koh and Folded by Hande Orhun Diagrams available in the Origami USA Convention 2000 book   This paper dog has a ton of character and looks really full of energy.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/126871950@N04/20246659223/ Dog, Designed by Hideo Komatsu and Folded by Ivan Svatko Diagrams available in Works of Hideo Komatsu   This dog in a dog house model is still one of our favourites. The entire thing, both the dog and the house, is folded from a single sheet of paper.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lovesong_ni0912/4221912452/ Dog in a Dog House, Designed by Stephen Weiss and Folded by Minh Tue (Photo by thong nguyen nguyen) Diagrams available in Origami Zoo   Here's another one of those fantastic doberman pinchers.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/blunek/6078685309/ Doberman Pinscher, Designed by Ares Alanya and Folded by Blanka P (blunek) Diagrams available in the 17th Tanteidan Convention book   This entire scene is pretty adorable.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/origamiru/13383020815/ Collie, Designed and Folded by Andrey Ermakov Instructions not available   Here's another one of the cuter origami dog designs.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79001419@N06/14933797960/ Scottish Terrier, Designed by Hoang Tien Quyet and Folded by Gonzalo Diagrams available in the 20th Tanteidan Convention book   We really like how this dog design is a lot more 3-dimensional and seeing it from multiple angles is really great.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephwuorigami/9160534574/ Miniature Schnauzer, Designed and Folded by Joseph Wu Instructions not available   This is a much simpler design but it's still very expressive.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/92285150@N02/16097575253/ Terrier, Designed by Francisco Javier Caboblanco and Folded by Rainer Berg Diagrams available in Origami from Around the World   Here's another adorable design. The pose is absolutely fantastic.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/papygami/11196458435/ Mi Perra Zaida, Designed by Juan Gimeno Viguera and Folded by Luc MARNAT Diagrams available in Pajarita Magazine #123   This is another excellent dog design. The colour change here is really great and it looks awesome with this black and white unryu paper.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/satsukawa/14075929136/ Husky, Designed by Fumiaki Kawahata and Folded by Alex Satsukawa Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #108   This tiny little dog might be the cutest one we've ever seen!

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pierre-andre/16914067596/ Joe Cocker, Designed by Patricio Kunz and Folded by Pierre-andré Diagrams available in Drawing Origami Tome 1   This is one of the best looking paper dogs that we've ever seen. It really has the look of a real dog.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/origami-shop/23244545891/ Labrador, Designed and Folded by Gen Hagiwara Diagrams available in Spirits of Origami   Here's another one of the best dog designs we've seen. It's easily the best paper shiba inu out there. The design is based on Gen Hagiwara's labrador base.

Image source: http://cahoonas.deviantart.com/art/Shiba-Inu-Gen-Hagiwara-s-Labrador-Retriever-Base-439555944 Shiba Inu, Designed and Folded by Cahoonas Base crease pattern available from Gen Hagiwara's Flickr   Seth Friedman's Finnish Lapphund is another one of the best dog designs out there. This one too looks extra fluffy.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/126871950@N04/29448134695/ Finnish Lapphund, Designed by Seth Friedman and Folded by Ivan Svatko Video instructions available from Seth Friedman's YouTube channel   Here's another excellent dog design with a tongue.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/plieurfou/22558259689/ Loyal and His Tongue, Designed and Folded by Eric Vigier Instructions not available   The colour change in this beagle design is fantastic.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/56723190@N02/26823833051/ Beagle, Designed by Fumiaki Kawahata and Folded by Andrés Diagrams available in COS 2015   Here's quite a fancy looking paper poodle.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/128874294@N04/28667124904/ Poodle, Designed by Yoo Tae Yong and Folded by J.W. Park Diagrams available in Origami Works of Yoo Tae Yong   Seth Friedman also has this excellent basset hound design.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/62572859@N08/30219150180/ Basset Hound, Designed by Seth Friedman and Folded by Rui Roda Video instructions available from Seth Friedman's YouTube channel   Wolves are kind of in the same category as dogs and here's a great looking one that's kind of cute too.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/56723190@N02/23438245899/ Wolf, Designed and Folded by Andrés Instructions not available   Here's a different and also fantastic Scottish terrier design by Eric Joisel.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkrup/23982559650/ Aberdeen, Designed by Eric Joisel and Folded by Alexander Krupnikov Diagrams available in the 10th Tanteidan Convention book   Here's a really great labrador retriever design. The pose here and how it almost looks like it's running along is awesome.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79606072@N00/9932038285/ Labrador Retriever, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Terry Nicolas Diagrams available in Works of Satoshi Kamiya 2, 2002 – 2009   Román Díaz's fox terrier is another really awesome dog design.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79001419@N06/7672625216/ Fox Terrier, Designed by Román Díaz and Folded by Gonzalo Diagrams available in Origami for Interpreters   This Dalmatian design is really impressive with how the colour change makes little dots. You definitely need to use black and white paper to fold this one.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeadia/30503538866/ Dalmatian, Designed by Fumiaki Kawahata and Folded by Joe Adia Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #158   Our final model for this post is this very expressive looking Pug. It's another excellent example of colour change used in design.

Just as there's a huge variety of different species of turtles and tortoises in real life there's also a very diverse variety of origami ones too. First up is Satoshi Kamiya's awesome loggerhead turtle. The pattern on the back of the shell is fantastic.

Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by P. Colman Diagrams available in the 16th Origami Tanteidan Convention book Image source   Here we have a pretty cool design with a turtle made out of a tessellation pattern.

Turtle Tessellation, Designed and Folded by Melina Hermsen Instructions not available Image source   Here's a fantastic baby sea turtle design. I love how it's photographed here in mid-swim.

Baby Turtle, Designed and Folded by Nguyen Ngoc Vu Diagrams available in Drawing Origami Tome 1 Image source   This is one of the best tortoise designs we've ever seen. It totally looks like a real tortoise and you can easily imagine it slowly walking there.

Tortoise, Designed and Folded by Nguyễn Hùng Cường Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn Image source   Having this snapping turtle climbing up onto a crumpled up paper rock is a nice touch.

Snapping Turtle, Designed and Folded by Phạm Hoàng Tuấn Instructions not available Image source   Here's Nguyễn Hùng Cường's tortoise again but this time folded by a different artist.

Tortoise, Designed by Nguyễn Hùng Cường and Folded by Philippe Landrein Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn Image source   Here's another take on Nguyen Ngoc Vu's sea turtle.

Sea Turtle, Designed by Nguyễn Hùng Cường and Folded by Luc MARNAT Diagrams available in Drawing Origami Tome 1 Image source   This Galapagos tortoise is folded from a single sheet of paper. It perfectly uses a colour change in the design so the shell and body are different colours.

Galapagos Tortoise, Designed and Folded by Quentin Trollip Instructions not available Image source   Here's another really awesome turtle design from Satoshi Kamiya. The feet and the pattern on the shell are awesome. P. Colman also really knows how to stage a photograph!

Turtle, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by P. Colman Crease pattern available from Satoshi Kamiya's website Image source   And here's Satoshi Kamiya's loggerhead sea turtle again but folded by a different artist this time.

Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by DebugMode Diagrams available in the 16th Origami Tanteidan Convention book Image source   Here's an excellent "green" turtle.

Green Turtle, Designed by Gerard Ty Sovann and Folded by Luc MARNAT Diagrams available in Pure Origami Image source   This is Nguyễn Hùng Cường's tortoise again folded by a different designer. It really is a fantastic design.

Tortoise, Designed by Nguyễn Hùng Cường and Folded by Alex Satsukawa Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn Image source   Here's a new and quite realistic looking turtle design. The shiny paper used here really makes it look like a real turtle.

Turtle, Designed and Folded by Yoshimasa Tsuruta Instructions not available Image source   This is another new sea turtle design. Look at that tessellation pattern on the back of the shell!

Sea Turtle, Designed and Folded by Mauricio Flórez Instructions not available Image source   A lot of origami turtles use sort of a grid or tessellation pattern. Here's another design like this but this one is a bit more round than most others.

Leatherback Sea Turtle, Designed by Pasquale D'Auria and Folded by Luc MARNAT Diagrams available in Pajarita Magazine #126 Image source   This next turtle looks completely different from anything else so far.

Turtle, Designed by Eric Joisel and Folded by Andrey Ermakov Diagrams available in Olympiad 2015 Image source   Here's Nguyễn Hùng Cường's tortoise again photographed out in the wild.

Tortoise, Designed by Nguyễn Hùng Cường and Folded by Phillip Curl Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn Image source   Here's Satoshi Kamiya's turtle again. I really like the close up on the face in this one and how it looks with the open mouth.

Turtle, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Alex Satsukawa Crease pattern available from Satoshi Kamiya's website Image source   Robert J. Lang has another really awesome turtle design.

Western Pond Turtle, Designed by Robert J. Lang and Folded by Jaime Niño Diagrams available in Origami Design Secrets Second Edition Image source   And here's one last tortoise.

Tortoise, Designed by Nguyễn Hùng Cường and Folded by Nguyen TuanTai Diagrams available in VOG 2: Origami.vn Image source   Our final turtle for this post is designed by the amazing Kei Watanabe. Look at the individually folded scales on the legs! This is probably folded from a single sheet of paper.

Pangolin (Eric Joisel) Designer: Joisel, Eric Folder: Joisel, Eric