Thanks for the comments so far. I took some of the suggestions and posted an alternative placement on my blog to see how people may respond to either of those.
http://creativecat1313.blogspot.com/
I think the brown shirt is also my favorite color. And sorry, no, the feet belong yellow, white just looks bad. I make decisions based on what's good for the design, not how realistic it is. I know owl's feet are typically fuzzy and cream-white colored.
Lol, my cat's afraid of squirrels. He likes to terrorize them through the window, but the first time he ever met one in person without a pane of glass between them, he ran like hell.
Run mice! Run!