The second pic is definitely stronger than the first. I think that your DOF is too shallow in the first, and while I think it makes an interesting abstract, I don't think that that was your intention...perhaps if you had focused on someting 1/2 way between the fore- and background... It seems that that might be an ear sticking out? That might have been better to use than the extreme foreground.
It's a cute cat you got there.