'He never misses a delivery!' Cat who is obsessed with the mailman screams every time he makes a delivery, the cat owner apologizes, but the mailman is as obsessed with the cat as the cat is with him

Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor

Mar 19, 2026 9:00 AM EDT

Every cat is obsessed with something, and you never know what it is until it happens.

This is something that we have come to learn not only as cat owners but also as people who write about cats nearly every day. One day, in every cat's life, they will find something. Something that they are obsessed with. It could be an item. It could be an action. It could be that your cat will be obsessed with potatoes. It could be that your cat will be obsessed with turning on the faucet, forcing you to tie it shut. It could be that your cat will be obsessed with sabotaging your showers, forcing you to build her a spot to shower safely.

Life with cats is never boring, but life with a cat past their "obsession finding" moment, that is something that can never be compared to anything. And for this cat, who one day discovered that he is obsessed with the mailman, every day became an adventure. Every day became a waiting game, eagerly awaiting this human who drops things through a slide into the cat's home, to come and bestow the cat with a new thing to sniff and explore.

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"My cat is obsessed with the mailman, our carrier showed us a pic of what he sees every day"

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This picture. This picture would make us love being a mailman more than anything else. We would never be able to go past this house without thinking about this cat, without smiling. This little ginger face greeting us as we come to deliver mail would make us smile each and every time. We would wait for this delivery. We would want it. And we would take pictures like this of the cat each and every single time that we are there. In fact, we think that every job should involve cats in some way. Cats just kind of- make everything better. Really, it would be good for morale to have cats at every workplace. Someone should consider making that a policy.
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Oh, that brings up so many questions for us. Maybe it's true. Maybe this cat's obsession with the mailman is not quite as wholesome as we thought. Maybe it's fierce. Maybe it's about protecting the house from this potential intruder who always keeps dropping packages with funny smells and sounds into our homes. Maybe this is all about protecting us. And if it is, that might be even cuter than what we thought before. In fact, as the delivery person, we would take even more images of the little savior because of it. Yes.
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