Mini-balloon animal dog!

One of my favourite artists has inspired today's min-mal - Jeff Koons.   His work is so fun, bright and colourful I was immediately drawn to it.   Koons creates sculptures of trivial items in materials congruous to there original form.  For example:

Seaside inflatables from aluminium, or

A giant puppy in plants!

One of his most famous pieces is a giant balloon animal dog made from steel

and this is what has inspired my mini-mal.  If Koons can make outsized steel balloon animals why can't I make mini knitted ballon animals?!