Animal Madness!

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I just found this amazing news story on the BBC website!

Royal Mail has stopped deliveries to a house in Leeds after postal workers came under attack from an elderly cat.

Tiger is said to have scratched postal workers and chased them down the garden path at his home in High Bank Street, Farsley, over the past few weeks.

Owner Tracy Brayshaw, who must now pick up mail from the nearest sorting office, said the ban was "a bit silly".

She added: "We're talking about a 19-year-old geriatric cat here who likes lazing out in the sun."

Mrs Brayshaw, 43, a pharmacy dispenser, said the black-and-white cat slept for 20 hours

She said: "There have been three incidents where Tiger's jumped through the cat flap and is said to have scratched a postie, so they've decided to suspend our post.

"He's never done anything like this before."

Mrs Brayshaw's daughter, Amy, 17, said: "Tiger sleeps, he drools when he sleeps and he likes climbing trees, but in the space of three weeks we've had our post banned because he has attacked the postman.

"Apparently he attacked one postman on the leg and on the arm and chased him down the garden path.

"He is very territorial but he's just an average cat really. We are all saying it's health and safety gone mad.

"He wakes up in the middle of the night meowing because he just wants some attention. He's not a monster."

In a statement Royal Mail said: "We are sorry for the inconvenience to Mrs Brayshaw and, as we want to resume delivery of mail to her address as quickly as possible, we're trying to agree a way to do this and avoid our employees suffering further nasty injuries, as has happened three times already."

I really had to laugh when I read this article! I have heard of dogs biting mailmen, but never a cat! Just the image of a man being chased down the road by an angry cat sounds hillarious, and it does make you wonder if the cat in question has had some kind of a bad experience with mailmen or strangers coming to the house in general. You also have to wonder if the cat really was that vicious, or if the posties had just blown things out of proportion. I know of cats who don't like to be stroked, so that maybe what happened here. Who knows?

The full article:
BBC News - Leeds postal workers boycott house over cat attacks

Anyway, asside from commenting on this article, does anyone here have an overly terratorial animal, or have another funny story about pets gone mad?