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Cat too scary for Canadian mail carriers
POSTED: 1:42 p.m. EDT, May 4, 2007
Story Highlights
• "Apparently this is a very threatening cat," Canada Post says
• Owner says cat declawed and docile
• Cat owner has to pick up mail at post office
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 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," spokeswoman Kathi Neal told the newspaper. "Apparently this is a very threatening cat."
Samborski told the paper that his 8-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.
U2Kitten said:$414? Are the vets out there more expensive or are they taking you for a ride because they know how much you love cats? I've taken lots of cats with abcesses to vets, all they do is lance them and squeeze it out and give you antibiotics. It's never more than about $75, and one cat had one on his back so huge it stood up like a camel's hump and wiggled from side to side when he walked. But anyway I hope she's doing better.
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