Do you have Gamma Correction turned on by any chance? If so, turn it off and do a test render without saving over your favorite version. It still looks a tiny bit washed out to me, but if that's what you're after, don't change it. You are the best judge of what you want. The last render is much improved. (In the first one, I thought the cat was a penguin, LOL.)

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy