PROUD owners responded in their droves to our call for photographs of their pets.

We launched our Perfect Pets competition on Wednesday, and more than 250 pictures had dropped into our email inbox within hours. We've been inundated even more since then.

There are some absolutely gorgeous sights to behold of animals, big and small, from mice to mares.

We've created a small gallery of some the early entries but there's still time to enter before the closing date on May 29, after which the top 50 will appear in the paper and in our online gallery.

From there you will have the opportunity to vote for the pet that you think is the cutest, with shopping vouchers up for grabs.

To be in with a chance, all you have do is visit www.yorkpress.co.uk/perfect-pet-2019/ to enter your photo online. Alternatively email a picture with the name of your pet to promotions.york@nqyne.co.uk