Cats can be such a mystery indeed!
This is a scam !
Mr Phœnix in fact runs the notorious and highly dangerous Kitty KosaNostra.
(I can't give his real name as i would be put in concrete shoes and dropped off my pier on a dark moonless night, a note pinned to me saying - Callie Cline dunnit - ).
Kitties just take the money and run (i know, i've tried) and give it to him.
You have been warned.
Bwa ha ha ha! So did you pay the dollar???
Birds of a feather …
Yes Jelly i did
and another to get out of that sack