this is adorable. you've captured good texture and a very fun shot of your pet. unfortunately, it seems like there were problems when you resized or compressed the picture for dpc. that made things seem a little fuzzy around the edges and pixelated, so it sort of looks like a blown up cell phone pic. i use photoshop to resize and save for web, which gives a lot of control (you can change the quality until it's just barely under the file size needed). a free alternative that i've used before is google's picasa. it has some photo editing capability, and allows you to resize and select a custom amount of compression. you can read more here
a 2 from me , sorry , would have preferred you concentrate on the textues of the broom , I can see that this is where the major focus is , having the cat in the frame adds nothing to the shot.
A confused image lacking context with respect to the challenge. The grainy effect does not assist this image in any way. A snapshot quality image which isn't bad, but not up to the specifications of the challenge.