Cats Up Close - February 2016 Picture Of The Month

Great photos - so many cuties! Here's one of our Rex napping.

Owh, this is hard. Jed and his tummy.

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@bonepicker  I fear you have  posted pictures of both Ms Freya and Mr Frodo in this month's thread:  can you manage to choose one of them for the competition?

I often wish I had more than one cat but when I see the added difficulties of selecting entries for these competitions I can feel a little relief because it's hard enough just picking from Mouse's 'mug shots'.   

@Norachan   100 votes each is an excellent idea.    

Cali's toes and tail

Fyllis said:

Ah, poop!  The time has come for us to all review these glorious pics and start narrowing down our selections!  How in the world are we supposed to pick a 'favorite'? 

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I'm hoping we'll get extra views again, but even if we do I don't know how I'll ever choose. They're all so precious!

So hard to choose, but this is one of my favorite pictures of Oliver.

This thread is now officially closed for submissions! 

Voting thread will be coming real soon. Thank you for your submissions everyone! 

I realize the contest is closed but still would like to post a picture of Midi

By all means! It's always nice to see everyone's cats! That's a very interesting coat pattern on her face there. How old is she?

And my apologies for the delay with the voting thread. Turns out we have no fewer than 80 photos this week!! I've been working on the voting thread for a couple of hours now and I'm stuck because the poll won't hold so many options.   I'm trying to solve that at the moment but if the technical adjustments won't work, we may have to have two voting threads this month! 

Anne said:

And my apologies for the delay with the voting thread. Turns out we have no fewer than 80 photos this week!! I've been working on the voting thread for a couple of hours now and I'm stuck because the poll won't hold so many options. :lol3:  I'm trying to solve that at the moment but if the technical adjustments won't work, we may have to have two voting threads this month! :jaw:

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In that case, I'm resurrecting last month's campaign for AT LEAST 10 votes each....maybe even 20? Choosing any less is going to be totally impossible!

And now that this is closed... This was my accidental super-closeup of Oscar. I was trying to get pics of Penelopy who was only with us a few days at that point, and he decided to sniff the camera right at that moment.

Oh my goodness, Midi's face definitely has gotten lighter! Reminds me of Lucky, how the white crept up his face the older he got. Looking at the picture of him the vet sent me that was taken in July, it really highlighted all the white he really had.

Since the contest is closed, I would like for all to see this picture. I figure I will get more views here than on the regular picture forum.


I am looking for HELPFUL critiques on the pic. Reply by PM only, please.

With competition ended and photos still coming in I thought I'd put in one of my really close up pic's of Mouse - I think this one is of the side of his face and ear but I'm not sure what other body parts are in there.  

ha yea. Keep the closeups coming, even though it's closed.

here's two of Monet that I was considering for the contest

Finally, the voting threads are here!

Yes, it's threads, in plural   40 photos and TEN votes for each thread -

 [thread="314771"]Vote On Your Favorite Close Ups Pom Feb 16 Part 1​[/thread]  

 [thread="314772"]Vote On Your Favorite Close Ups Pom Feb 16 Part 2​[/thread]  

Good luck everyone!!

:hobbes: 20 votes total : Anne :9:

Here are some of my other close ups:

Chula's paw and ear.