http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/bonsai.asp
Considering everyone and their hyperventilating great-aunt seems to feel compelled to warn me about the dangers of robbers posing as perfume salesmen (utter bollocks-- http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/perfume.asp ); missing children who never existed ( http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/children/penny.asp ); and gang members putting LSD on payphone buttons ( http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/payphone2.asp ...I only wish I'd read this one before I spent a week and a half licking every public phone I came across) snopes.com has proved an invaluable resource to me. I hope it'll do the same for you guys 
...or at least provide some entertainment and "HAH! I told you SO!" ammunition 
~W
P.S. This isn't meant to dis the poor fellow taken in by Bonsai Kitty--I was kidding about the payphones, but I've been duped by a few myself--it's simply informational, meant to provide a resource for anyone (and that's probably all of us) who gets dozens of FWDed emails purporting "facts" of questionable authenticity.
Some people are like slinkies: they're not good for much, but it still makes you smile when you push them down the stairs.
