This was sent in by Silly Kitty fan Robert… thanks Robert!
Postman Too Scared to Deliver Mail After Cat Attack!
April 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Three-year-old Snowball is only 10 inches tall but she has shocked her owner Mr. Ian Wilkinson after he received a letter from the Royal Mail in the UK informing him that his beloved kitty was a ‘health and safety risk’ after a postman’s finger was scratched while putting mail through the letterbox!
Snowball is described as ‘harmless and playful’ by her owner but the postman feels she poses an ‘unacceptably high level of risk’ and after suffering a cut to his finger it has been decided delivering mail to Mr. Wilkinson is just too dangerous. Deliveries have been suspended until Mr. Wilkinson finds a way to stop Snowball from attacking the postman.
Mr Wilkinson said: ‘It’s utterly ridiculous. Everyone at work thinks it is hilarious – they have started calling her Ninja Cat.’
He also stated… ‘Although I acknowledge that my cat is a very intelligent animal, she is not able to lift up a spring loaded flap, keep it open, push her paw through a double brush guard and maul an unsuspecting delivery person in the time it take to delivery of the letter.’
Mr Wilkinson has now put a cage around the letterbox and hopes this will be enough for Royal Mail to resume its service.
Cat & Mice Armor! Battle Time!
March 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Canadian Jeff de Boer started to take a serious interest in metal work in high school and built his first suit of armor. After graduating he enrolled at the Alberta College of Art and Design where he majored in jewellery design. In the fall of 1986, while a student, he combined his new skills in jewellery making with his knowledge of armor-making to produce the world’s first and only suit of armor… for a mouse! After he graduated he went on to make even more armor… for CATS!
In the fall of 1994, Jeff opened “Articulation”, a solo exhibition of some 140 works, showcasing his efforts over a period of eight years. Since that time, Jeff has continued to work and grow, developing new and fantastic ideas. Check out more of his armor HERE.
The Case of the Pooping Cat
February 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In Seattle WA on Nov 2nd the case of Duke the Cat, described by his alleged victim “as the smartest cat that I’ve ever seen,” ended up in Seattle Municipal Court.
The 11-year-old longhair’s owner, Victoria Adair – was found guilty of allowing Duke to damage the next-door property owned by Mark Simpson. The fine was $109.
That damage… was from Duke’s considerable and relentless pooping.
In 2009 the Simpson’s bought a dilapidated Ballard home as an investment and hired contractors to turn it into a duplex. During the remodel, the architect says because of Duke’s poop, “Workers were sickened from the stink.”
“He was a fast pooper,” Simpson says.
Adair says plenty of other cats in the neighborhood could have been using the property as a litter box. But Simpson provided Animal Control with photos and a video that he says showed Duke on his property.
Magistrate Adam Eisenberg ruled that the “preponderance” of evidence was that it was Duke who was pooping on the Simpson’s property.
ARE YOU CRACKING UP YET??
Simpson says his relationship with Duke started out just great when he first bought the property.
Duke wandered over, he says, and “defended and guarded our newly acquired property, chasing other cats away. He even scared off dogs. We liked that.”
But in the summer of 2010, the house was jacked up to build a ground-level apartment and workers found that most of the crawl space had been Duke’s bathroom.
At the end of the day, Duke’s owner Adair ended up being fined a total of $174, which included a fine for not having a license for Duke and another cat she owns.
The actual damage that Duke was cited for causing was for pooping on the doormat, a plastic thing that Simpson says he bought at Fred Meyer “for 25 bucks.”
Well thank GOODNESS that case has been solved, ha!
