Canada Post cowed by "very threatening cat" (aka Shadow)

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 5/4/07 | Reuters

[NormsRevenge]

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canada's postal system has stopped delivering mail to a home in Winnipeg, Manitoba, after a mail carrier was scared away by a "very threatening cat," the Winnipeg Free Press said on Friday.

A Canada Post spokeswoman said the agency was concerned about the safety of its carriers, although it hoped for an amicable solution to its dispute with cat-owner John Samborski.

"The letter carrier who delivers mail there ... was brought up on a farm, she is very comfortable with animals," spokewoman Kathi Neal told the newspaper. "Apparently this is a very threatening cat."

Samborski told the paper that his eight-year-old, declawed, black cat Shadow is docile, and it was "ridiculous" for Canada Post to make him to pick up his mail from a post office instead of delivering it to his door.

Shadow "likes to eat and sleep and cuddle. You could drop a bomb and he'd just open one eye, take a look, then close them and go back to sleep," Samborski, 41, told the newspaper.

[MEG33]

[vigilante2]

Shadow must be a Viking Kitty

[A knight without armor]

It’s Caturday!

[mewzilla]

House arrest for attack cat

Wonder if this mew knows Lewis....

[Springman]

Guess you guys have some wimpy mail carriers your way, eh?

Scared of a kitty cat!!!

[fanfan]

Canada ping.

Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.

[MizSterious]

Threatening cat? Or maybe just wanted to skip a house or two?

One of our mail carriers uses every possible excuse not to deliver here—if it’s damp enough to make the pavement wet, he claims our creek is overflowing. (Trust me, it takes a LOT of rain to make it overflow.) If so much as one snowflake has fallen, he claims he can’t deliver because he doesn’t have snow tires. Since we’re so isolated, though, we don’t dare complain—they might refuse to deliver at all.

(I just hope he’s not reading this article—it will only give him MORE excuses: our three cats.)

[vetvetdoug]

This Canadian letter carrier would be a candidate for the alter ego of Snow Shoe Thompson. If the carriers’ name were published we could write a song about how Thompson he’s not....

[backhoe]

Skeered 'O kitty, eh?

Perhaps with good reason...

[Lurker]

Good one.

L

[backhoe]

You can find a pile of them over here:

http://www.lolcat.net

[Xenalyte]

[Fawn]

HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAY.....................

[Slings and Arrows]

Second Shadow thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1828876/posts

[Fawn]

Cats can be killers:

[pillut48]

LOL! We have a corn cat too! But he won’t eat it off the cob. Has to be in a bowl—so butter or salt though, he likes it plain!

[pillut48]

Moose will be over to teach Shadow real cat lessons as soon as his post lunch, pre dinner nap is over! Meow!

[G8 Diplomat]

Sounds like one of my cats escaped for Canada.

I have 7 cats, two of them are black, one of the black ones named Silky can be a bit nasty sometimes. He’d love to scare a mail carrier...kinda like Garfield in the comics.

[G8 Diplomat]

I used to have a cat who ate corn. He’d eat the leftovers off our plate, but sometimes he’d barf them up in the living room.