[WICharlie]

Just to let you know, the one person that you dealt with was a scammer. The person has no intention of taking the animal. How it works is that they offer to pay you by check and then tell you to arrange to ship the animal. Then they say that they want to send you a check for much more than the animal is worth because they have someone else in the area that they also want to pay for something. They send you the check (which is phony, but looks real enough to fool you) and then they ask if you will forward the excess to the address they give you. Then you take REAL money from your checking account and send it. They string you along until they get your check cashed, and then they disappear. This a classic scammer. Most of the time the person you are dealing with isn't even in the US. So don't fall for this.

I have no doubt that there are also people out there who take in animals offered for free and reoffer them for sale though (or take them as feeders or baiters). It's why people should always ask for an adoption fee and should always carefully screen would-be-adopters.

You know what a feeder is...do you know what a baiter is? It's a rabbit/guinea pig/cat/dog that someone takes to use to "bait" to get fighting dogs riled up during a fight (or to teach them to fight in the first place). It means a horrible death for that animal. And they just LOVE Craigslist as a way to get bait for free.