I just love spotting the media angle, don't you?

[Peikko 1,575]

...but is it?

A family has been warned their mail could be halted after postmen refused to deliver to their house - because of a vicious kitten.

Royal Mail chiefs wrote to Ken Ridge claiming that six-month-old Illy had attacked a postal worker.

Mail deliveries to the house could now be suspended as a result of the attack on the woman, he was told.

Mr Ridge, 65, who lives in Clapham, South London, with his 30-year-old son Bradley, said: 'We were not around when this happened, but it seems some mail was put through the letterbox and their hand was scratched.

'Illy is only a kitten and I am sure she was just playing.

'Then we got a letter from the mail delivery office warning our deliveries could be stopped.'

Signed by office manager Mayo Sonubi the letter said: 'I am writing to let you know that, on June 6, our postman was attacked by your animal in your premises while delivering mail to your address.

'Animal attacks are a major cause of injury to Royal Mail staff and so I am writing to seek your co-operation in preventing a repeat of this unfortunate incident.

'I must advise you that, if any further incidents of this nature are allowed to take place, I shall have no alternative other than to consider suspending the delivery of mail to your home.'

Shopkeeper Mr Ridge, who runs a fruit and veg business, said friends and neighbours thought the incident laughable and he planned to ignore the warning letter.

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[Ladylethal 12]

Drop the letter without sticking your big paw through the hole.

Or leave it in front of the door. Lucky mailman that it wasn't a pit bull behind that door.

[Mags 112]

Yeah, cause kittens are so vicious.

That postie needs to grow up. I've been bitten clean through to the bone before by a cat and does it bother me? Nope.

[Peikko 1,575]

Is it fair to expect someone who is performing a service to be bitten and scratched in the course of their job when that job is not animal related? Honestly, I like cats, I really do, but I think these people are being irresponsible. It's not like the kitten has to have access to the front door - or that they could not put on one of those baskets to prevent any such thing occurring? To be honest, I think posties are pretty forgiving considering they could encounter a dog or 'vicious' kitty at every door they come to which would get very, very old, very, very quickly