Beautiful cat and you did a great job with the selective desat, but I don't know if I like it on this photo. It almost makes it look like a composite of two photos instead of one.
Gorgeous kitty! I think the use of selective desat (you did a good, neat job of it) in this case makes it look like the cat is "pasted" in after the picture was taken.
This is an interesting capture but I really don't like how you edited it if I am to be honest. The selective desaturation really has no purpose and doesn't add anything artistically in my opinion and the slight "popping out of the frame" that's going on with the tiger's paw and the rope seems way too subtle to have much of an impact. That comes across more as a mistake than an intented result. I think going straight b/w here would have been your ticket.