Posted on 05/04/2007 7:03:34 PM PDT by 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.
Moose was a feral kitty when we got him (we also have his half sister Pebbles who is about 6 months younger than him, same mom)—lived on a dairy farm and nibbled on the cattle feed which included—corn! :-) Guess he got his taste for it then.
We discovered that he loved corn when DH would eat corn on the cob and Moose would go nutty trying to figure out how to get it off the cob—I started spoiling him by cutting some off and putting it in a bowl for him...that was 11 years ago and he is still corn crazy—in fact, if you go to the freezer and get out the frozen corn, it’s like cats who know the sound of a can opener, he’ll come running from anywhere in the house! :-) And it’s only for the frozen corn—other frozen veggies he could care less. But somehow he knows the ‘sound’ of the frozen corn. Cats are wonderful, mysterious critters, that’s for sure. :-)
Nope, he's right here.
Shadow hates small children also.
LOL!
"on-going security assignment"
Alone, defiant;
One cat’s the most
Reluctant client
Of Canada Post;
He’s One Bad Kitty ...
He just keeps yowling ...
A-long!
And looking grumpy. ;)
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