hi, I'm relatively new here, when I set up my account I picked an avatar of a cat from the choice of avatars in the "animals" folder here on psychcentral. It wasn't a custom avatar, and I didn't take it from another user or anything. Thinking about it now it definitely seemed like a picture of someone's cat, but I didn't think they would put it in that folder then. So after some posts and such, I get a message from someone with the same cat avatar saying that it is their cat and they were flattered, yet also kind of peeved that I took it. I was kind of embarrassed, then irritated, wondering if they were messing with me, then I wrote as nice a reply as I could muster and switched my avatar to something else. I mean, if I really took a picture of someone's cat, I can understand them being upset. I'm wondering, can this really happen, where someone's personal pet picture that they use ends up in the site's "animals avatars" folder? If people's personal pictures end up in a public folder, that would definitely make me think twice about ever using something personal. Thanks, this has got me kind of anxious even though it shouldn't.