Thanks for your support and encouragement. You brought up important points, Spencer. Our Humane Society has a fairly detailed adoption form. We've been told that getting a home loan or adopting a child would be easier. (It's really not THAT bad.) We also ask and reask the same questions verbally to make sure we don't get answers that don't jibe. When people call they are questioned by the person answering the phone, and then also by the foster parent. Part of our job as foster parents is to observe the potential adopters' interaction with the cats to see if their behavior is appropriate. We ask extensive questions about the type of cat personality the people are looking for and also try to guess what type of human the cats would like best. If the adopters have children, we will make sure we know how they interact with the cat. By having the cats in our homes, we get to their personalities well and can give a fairly accurate(I hope)picture of them to their new humans. Toby was almost adopted a few weeks ago, but the elderly couple wanted a cat who wouldn't jump on counters. Toby loooves jumping on anything. So, since he would drive them nuts counter-hopping and they would drive him nuts trying to stop him, we(they and I) decided to nix the deal. The right fit is vital. And we are very careful in placing kittens. The high-demand you mentioned enables us to be very choosy about who gets a little ball of fluff. Anytime adopters have questions or concerns they can call us. Most of the problems are easily fixed. Only a few aren't. Oftentimes we get calls from new "parents" who just want to let us know how great their cat is and brag about how much the cat likes them.