After all not everyone can be a winner

A Sphynx cat perches on its owner at the Grand Prix Royal Canin international cat show at the Crocus Expo Exhibition Centre in Moscow, Russia. Photo: Sergei Savostyanov/TASS.

Tulle Veil Hat

A Scottish straight cat wearing a hat during an international cat show in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Photo: AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko.

Who’s Who

The International Cat Show in Prague, Czech Republic, featured competitors from seven countries. Photo: Slavek Ruta/Rex/Shutterstock.

Palantír

Moscow, Russia: An alert-looking Maine Coon at the 2016 Grand Prix Royal Canin international cat show at the Crocus Expo Exhibition Centre. The breed’s origin is unknown, but one legend claims it is descended from cats brought to the U.S. by an English seafarer called Captain Coon. Photo: Dmitry Serebryakov/TASS.

An Eye for a Cat

Moscow, Russia: An Oriental Shorthair at the 2016 Grand Prix Royal Canin international cat show at the Crocus Expo Exhibition Centre. The breed has more than 300 coat colour and pattern combinations. Photo: Dmitry Serebryakov/TASS.

The Jade Cat

Moscow, Russia: A Sphynx breed cat at the 2016 Grand Prix Royal Canin international cat show at the Crocus Expo Exhibition Centre. Photo: Dmitry Serebryakov/TASS.

The Cat in the Hat

She’s a powder coloured female cat and likes to sleep in the library amid a colony of stuffed animals. Photo: Mado Flynn.

Paper Bag

Bangkok, Thailand: A cat hides in a brown paper bag at Caturday Cat Cafe. Photo: Paul Brown/REX/Shutterstock.

Pidgin

• Ian Sample, Cat got your tongue? Study to examine if pets adopt owner’s accent, The Guardian, March 30, 2016

The researchers say cats and humans appear to develop a pidgin language to communicate better. Photo: Andrew Marttila/Rex Shutterstock.

Outnumbered

Aoshima, Japan: Cats roam freely in Aoshima, where they outnumber humans by more than five to one. Photo: Aflo/Barcroft Media.

Red Tails

秘密地方，日，2016年3月13日

Community property

I wish there to be in my house: A woman possessing reason, A cat among books passing by, Friends for every season Lacking whom I’m barely alive. Guillaume Apollinaire

English translation by A. S. Kline