Rejected photos Quality issues

One question: did you ever check your assets at 100%? Because all of your postings until now show artefact, focussing errors etc at 100%. And it is essential to check the assets before submitting.

Your first: artefacts, probably to in camera processing or a small camera sensor doing too much noise reduction:

Your histogram also shows some odd exposure issues:

Some editing is required, especially adding contrast:

That would, however, not get rid of the artefacts.

The second asset is quite the same:

The faces of both cats are not sharp in the second photo