Hi there my Steemian friends and followers!
I thought that cats would make a good and popular theme for my monthly animal photo challenge (just like dogs did in the previous round) but I must say I was totally amazed and stunned by the overwhelming response from you guys to the Cat Photography Contest that I hosted last week.
The contest received over 200 comments (which probably is the highest number of comments I have ever had under any of my posts on Steem so far) and dozens of amazing entries. With such an enormous response, it was extremely difficult to pick the winners this time. I really wish I could reward more participants and this also why I am so grateful to 
But let´s get back to the winner announcement. After repeated browsing through all the amazing entries and some really long and proper consideration, I decided to choose these 5 winners:
I have tried to immerse myself in photography lately. Our cat Picasso is a perfect model for practicing my photographing skills.
This is Kalle, he is a Main Coon and loves all sorts of boxes or packages. He loves to play from there.
I have been a dog lover as far as I can remember myself. There was always a dog around me through my childhood and it was a dog that became my best friend ever as an adult. Cats were an unsolved mystery and I had no urge to get into it. Until this furry creature barged into my life and turned me into a cat lover in the blink of an eye! I called her Vera and her beauty and attitude simply stole my heart!
Hai..these is my two hero kittens.. six week old today.. they like to sleep and sleep! haha i'm still didn't have any idea what should i call them..my mum already named them as a 'CHEMONG' and 'BOBO' LMAO
I do not have as much cat photos as dogs but I really like this one. By the way, how do I receive these SBIs? I think I won the last contest but I´ve no idea where you send the SBI to.
...and these 5 runners-up:
We met a lot of cats on the island of Rhodes, right in the capital. There are many in the southern countries at all. Here I took one behind the bars ;-)
Cool one! I'll have to dig up my files and see if I have some among all the wildlife ones :) Thanks for the contest! Edit: found one of my favourites of the family cat; seems I don't have only wildlife photos after all! 😂 He's around 12 years now, but this was 3 or 4 years back. Here he is, louging on the rug, in one of the rare ocasions I could get him to face the camera and stand still!
This is our youngest cat. Mom's cat brought him to our house when he was still blind. He grew up with us at home. He is now a teenager and is playing with everything. He earned the accented name of „Cvrkous“.
Moe, Larry and Curly were 12 week old kittens dropped off at my vets office in a box. I had just lost my cat from cancer 2 weeks before when I went to see the three. Vet ask me if I would take one, I said NO, I will take all three. Never regretted it.
I found this beauty on my way through România, a bit of a spontaneous picture on run but it turned out pretty decent :-)
As promised in the original post, the winners won 5 SBI shares each, paid by me (see the screen shot below) and the runners-up got my full upvote on their entries.
Congratulations guys, you did an excellent job :) Hopefully, you enjoyed the contest as much as I did and I cannot wait to host another animal photo challenge soon so stay tuned! :)
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