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The 2024 Comedy Pet Photography Awards are just around the corner — and the competition is fierce!
The annual contest — which assesses pet photos and their accompanying captions to find the funniest picture — was started a few years ago by photographers Tom Sullam and Paul Joynson-Hicks. The duo decided to add a domestic pet twist to their existing contest, the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.
“By sharing the positive, feel-good, funny pet images, we could engage and encourage people to start supporting small grassroots animal welfare charities, thus making life better for the animals we share this planet with,” says Joynson-Hicks on the awards’ website.
The co-founder added that the beloved contest is “a celebration of all those wonderful furry, feathery, scaly and hoofed pals keeping us fit, sane and in good company” — and this year is no different!
On May 10, the competition named its 30 top contenders, and the pictures — from a seemingly headless horse to a gravity-defying cat — have to be seen to be believed.
Six judges will determine the winner of the Overall Best Photo award (which comes with a trophy, a £500 (or about $630) cash prize, and a crossbody bag). The judges will pick the picture that “combines the best technical excellence with the most amusing content and caption.”
The judges will also pick the winner of the following categories: “Pets who look like their owners,” “Dog: Our Best Friends,” “Cat: Our Fabulous Feline Friends,” “The Mighty Horse,” and “All Other Creatures Great and Small.”
And pet lovers everywhere can get in on the judging action — and have a hearty laugh! — by voting for the People’s Choice Award!
All winners will be announced on June 6.
Take a peek at some of the 2024 Comedy Pet Photography Awards finalists below! (Plus, see the complete list of 2024 finalists here.)
Silvia Jiang with “Who are you?”
Silvia Jiang/comedy pets
Sarah Haskell with “Not just for cats”
Sarah Haskell/comedy pets
Julie Smith with “I believe I can fly”
Julie Smith/comedy pets
Luiza Ribeiro with “Grumpy Dog”
Luiza Ribeiro/comedy pets
David Kertzman with “What am I thinking?”
David Kertzman/comedy pets
Kazutoshi Ono with “Tarzan”
Kazutoshi Ono/comedy pets
Sylvia Michel with “Everybody was Kung Fu fighting”
Sylvia Michel/comedy pets
Charlotte Kitchen with “Tired Donkey”
Charlotte Kitchen/comedy pets
Tammo Zelle with “It’s fu cold”
Tammo Zelle/comedy pets
Kenichi Morinaga with “Cat in a trap. Like Super Mario”
Kenichi Morinaga/comedy pets
Lock Liu with “It’s time to get up”
Lock Lui/comedy pets
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