11 award-winning photos of animal antics from this year's Comedy Pet Photography Awards

"Big Boss is the boss around here," Morinaga captioned this photo of a large cat sitting in a human-like position along the shore.

"Shadow was digging holes as normal at the beach, when all of a sudden he started showing off his new technique," Boynton wrote in the caption of her photo. "Luckily, the camera was at the ready for this crazy position!"

"Perfect landing pose, right?" Ono captioned this photo of a cat with its arms outstretched.

"The pressure of football and waiting for a free kick," Morinaga captioned this photo of cats playing outside.

"The avenger of the poor is back, but this time as a dog, and not on a horse, but in a car!" Goldhamer wrote. "The obligatory black mask is a must, of course."

"Bumble catching a ball," Woodcock captioned the photo.

"Karin and her two dogs. Don't they all look almost the same?" Selzer wrote.

"There's a hiding place under the sofa where Louis the dog likes to hide," Dos Santos wrote. "When I took his tennis ball from 'his place,' he got angry and put his head out through the hole, barking and asking for his ball back. That's when he turned into this angry seal, and I decided to capture the moment."

"I'm so happy to see my lovely Boudicca among the winners," Zelentsova said of his win in a statement released by the competition. "Ferrets almost never win anything in major international photo contests, and I'm glad to promote them as amazing pets and models. They are intelligent, cheerful, social little creatures with great personalities and overloading cuteness — when you have a ferret, you literally never stop smiling!"

"As an amateur street photographer, I have walked many, many miles and this is still my best and favorite photograph," Porsz said. "And it was one I nearly didn't take. But by some fluke, just as the owner of the dog threw the ball, I instinctively raised my camera and fired away. The dog was looking at the owner and then launched itself and flipped in mid-air to catch the ball. Out of the five images taken, this was the magic shot which fortunately was in focus."

"Alex is the shy one. Max is the playful one," Zoghzoghi wrote in a description of his award-winning photo. "Together they form a lethally cute duo. I had more fun taking photos of these two than during my most adventurous wildlife photography trips."

As the winner of the 2023 Comedy Pet Photography Awards, Zoghzoghi won a cash prize of £500, or about $636, a camera bag from ThinkTank, and a trophy.

"As a wildlife photographer, I never really considered sending photos to a pet competition until I discovered Comedy Pets," he said. "It's witty, it's fun, and the photos are hilarious. I am extremely happy and proud to have won it as all the finalists were really outstanding and some of them made me laugh to tears. Pets are a very, very important part of our families and should be celebrated."