I've spent today playing 'round robin' with emails, but did learn a bit about the Petfinder 'undesirables' that actually put my mind at ease.

I was very worried that they wanted my kittens for resale at a lab or for dog baiting. When I got another email of that type last night, it was addressed to a whole list of people, and I recognized some of the emails from Petfinder listings. So I replied with my form letter, then cut and pasted the undesirable's email under it and sent it out to the whole list.

What I found out is that it's a scam. These people send a money order to cover the adoption fee that is well in excess of the fee, with a request to send the excess back to them. Once they get the money, they vanish before the victim finds out that the money order was a fake and they are out the money they 'refunded' to the adopter.

Apparently these people do it with ebay sales as well as Petfinder and probably dozens of other web-based communities where money changes hands.

In a perverse way this made me feel better. Thieves I can handle, people who want to harm my precious kitties scare the kitty litter outta me!