News

Conjoined Cats Win Comedy Pet Photo Awards

Published

2 years ago

September 22, 2022

Robert King

The Comedy Pet Photo Awards has introduced the winners of the 2022 competitors with high honors going to Kenichi Morinaga along with his picture of two cats sitting on a fence that makes them seem as if they’re headlessly conjoined.

The competitors says the picture, titled Increase! Increase! and depicts a cartoon-like connection of two cats, beat out about 2,000 different entries to take the highest prize, a few of which have been proven within the listing of finalists printed in July. Morinaga, from Japan, says he enjoys visiting the small islands round his nation and taking photographs of the road cats he finds there.

“Out of the blue, I grew to become fascinated by the antics of cats out within the streets and needed to {photograph} them” he says. “Once I returned to Japan, I continued to hunt them out, they actually cheer me up, particularly after the final two years of the pandemic — they’re so humorous, even when they’re doing one thing severe. This superb competitors jogged my memory that such gestures from all animals are acknowledged as being hilarious, cute, and heart-warming not solely in Japan however all around the world.”

Morinaga, whose picture was additionally picked because the winner of the Finest Cat picture class, took residence the £2,000 money prize, plus a £5,000 donation from Animal Buddies Pet Insurance coverage that goes to an animal welfare or conservation charity of his selection.

He says that after a lot deliberation, he determined to make his donation to The Cat Welfare Group, a company based mostly on the U.Ok’s South Coast that helps rescue and re-home stray and deserted cats.

The Comedy Pet Photograph Awards says that judging this yr was the closest it has ever seen, with simply 10 factors separating the highest six locations and 7 totally different nations have been represented within the Class Winners, that are listed under.