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Mr Haywood, the ginger cat that sat in the baby's seat, has been crowned Top Cat 2012. So what have we learned from our first feline photography competition?

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Rachel Dixon

* guardian.co.uk, Friday 30 March 2012 12.00 BST

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Mr Haywood: cat talent

Your winner! Well done to Mr Haywood, a very talented cat. Photograph: Simon Cox

You entered in your thousands, sharing fantastic photographs of young cats, old cats, fat cats, thin cats and even, God forbid, a dead stuffed cat (we didn't publish that one). Sifting through the pictures was difficult work - the cute factor was dangerously, almost fatally, high - but we persevered. Eventually we whittled the entries down to seven category winners, which we turned over to you, the readers, to judge.

The nation has spoken, and Mr Haywood is duly crowned the winner of Top Cat 2012. Congratulations to him and his photographer/owner, Simon Cox, who will receive two books by 'mad cat man' and Guardian columnist Tom Cox (no relation); thanks to everyone else for entering; and apologies that we couldn't publish all of your great efforts (do share them on our Flickr group if you didn't make the shortlists).

So what did we learn from our first feline photography competition? Quite a lot, actually:

1. Cats sleep in the strangest positions. The Sleeping Beauty category was the second most popular (after Cutest), and the standard of entries was exceptionally high. Surprisingly, lots of cats like being tucked up under the duvet. However ...

2. Cats don't like being dressed up. OK, we admit it, the Best Catcessory category was a mistake. Cats are just too dignified - and their claws too sharp - to dress them up in sweet little outfits. It's simply wrong. (Santa outfits at Christmas are the only exception to this rule.)

3. Not all cats are cute. They might be handsome or dignified instead, and we should have had a category to reflect this. King of the Jungle, perhaps? Also, kitty talents and acrobatic feats are quite hard to capture on camera - well done to those of you that managed it.

4. Cats really like sinks. Conventional wisdom has it that cats are averse to getting wet, but the many pictures we received of cats curled up in the bathroom sink suggest otherwise. They also like drinking water from anything other than their water bowl: a glass, a vase, the toilet etc. Oh, and they have very long tongues.

5. Guardian cats have great names. We liked the short ones - Dog or Sexy - and we liked the long ones, such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Parkinson.

That's it for this year. Should we do it all again next year, and if so, what categories should we include? Grumpiest cat? Fattest cat? Or does another animal deserve its moment in the sun (we've already done dogs)? Share your thoughts below.

And please, please stop sending your pictures now. We really must get some work done.

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