Too cute. Wish I could take it, but alas, we have had our last pet. I think the barcode stickers compete with the kitten (hard to do) making the image "busy".
You might want to send this to the critique club for more in depth comments. I'm having a hard time pin-pointing why this isn't doing too much for me. Not a photog...so technique "tweaks" aren't even in the vocab.
With a little less noise and a little more sharpness/focus/nonblur this would be so fantastic! It's good as it is, but with less noise and such it would really stand out.