Top Comedy Pet Photos Of 2023 Will Make Your Heart Fluff Up Fur Real
A life changing event by © Michel Zoghzoghi / Comedy Pets, overall winner and winner of the Cat category. Image courtesy and featured with permission
These pictures are seriously the cat’s meow. Today, the Comedy Pet Photo Awards unveiled the winning entries from this year’s edition, adding to a long list of reminders why our furkids deserve the very best. Without trying, they make us laugh, even on days everything feels like a rat race.
Among the triumphs, Michel Zoghzoghi, a wildlife photographer hailing from Beirut, Lebanon, has emerged as the leader of the pack with his delightfully ominous photograph titled A Life Changing Experience, capturing the mischief of his rescue kittens.
Zoghzoghi, who is more accustomed to lensing larger and wilder feline subjects, found his two mischievous kittens to be an endless source of amusement and surprise. His rescues, Max and Alex, “form a lethally cute duo,” the photographer remarks. “I had more fun and surprises taking photos of these two characters than during my most adventurous wildlife photography trips."
A life changing event by © Michel Zoghzoghi / Comedy Pets, overall winner and winner of the Cat category. Image courtesy and featured with permission
The annual event, now into its fourth year, invites pet and animal enthusiasts everywhere to share their most hilarious and endearing images and videos of their unknowingly funny buddies. Founded by Paul Joynson-Hicks and Tom Sullam, the awards aim to shed light on the positive and essential role that pets play in our lives, while also raising awareness for animal welfare.
“Pets are a very, very important part of our families and should be celebrated,” this year’s winner chimes in.
Clinching the People’s Choice Award is Chris Porsz from the UK, whose uproarious snapshot of a leaping dog surprising onlookers in a New York park is also the alpha in the Dog Category.
Barking by © Chris Porsz / Comedy Pets, winner of the Dog category and People’s Choice Award. Image courtesy and featured with permission
“As an amateur street photographer, I have walked many, many miles, and this is still my best and favorite photograph,” Porsz divulges.
The roundup garners amusing pet snapshots from various corners of the world, with Darya Zelentsova, originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, drawing attention to an animal less commonly seen in households with a photo of her cherished ferret, Boudicca.
The first outdoor walk by © Darya Zelentsova / Comedy Pets, winner of the All Other Creatures category. Image courtesy and featured with permission
“I’m so happy to see my lovely Boudicca among the winners,” expresses Zelentsova.
“Ferrets almost never win anything in major international photo contests… They are intelligent, cheerful, social little creatures with great personalities and overloading cuteness—when you have a ferret, you literally never stop smiling!”
These images not only highlight the joyful and often hilarious moments shared with our animal companions but also underscore the universal language of love and companionship that transcends species.
The Three Greys by © Klaus-Peter Selzer / Comedy Pets, winner of the Pets Who Look Like Their Owners category. Image courtesy and featured with permission
Is it a seal or a dog by © Monyque Macedo Dos Santos (13 years old) / Comedy Pets, winner of the Junior category. Image courtesy and featured with permission
The Big Boss by © Kenichi Morinaga / Comedy Pets. Image courtesy and featured with permission
When digging gets serious by © Sophie Boynton / Comedy Pets. Image courtesy and featured with permission
Victory by © Kazutoshi Ono / Comedy Pets. Image courtesy and featured with permission
Football free kick by © Kenichi Morinaga / Comedy Pets. Image courtesy and featured with permission
Zorro reborn by Karl Goldhamer / Comedy Pets. Image courtesy and featured with permission
Keep your eye on the ball by Gill Woodcock / Comedy Pets. Image courtesy and featured with permission
[via Comedy Pet Photo Awards, images courtesy and featured with permission]
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