http://www.bonsaikitten.com/

If this is true I'm going to be sick... I posted the intro, there are pics on the site if you wanna look.

Introduction

For centuries, people in the West have marveled at the delicate beauty produced by Oriental artists and sculptors. From gardening to tattooing to dance and martial arts, these craftsmen have enthralled us with complex forms and simplistic perfection. One of the most fascinating of the visual techniques to emerge from this highly cultured region is the Oriental art of miniature sculpture. Who has not been stricken with the expressive grace of Japanese Bonsai? Though once the sole province of Bonsai masters within Japan, Bonsai plants have been available to fortunate consumers throughout the world for some time. With this in mind, we are proud to now offer to you the animal complement of this art form; the Bonsai Kitten.




Central Principles

A bonsai plant, along with its more widely encountered counterpart the topiary garden, achieves its miniature yet mature form through a long and delicate process of trimming during the formative years of the tree. It is not possible to trim a kitten! However, fortunately the Oriental artists of yore were also expert in the modification of animal forms. Both foot-binding and head-binding were practiced in the Far East, for the purpose of miniaturizing the feet and shaping the head into attractive shapes. This technique is also the principle behind the well-known corset, which is regaining popularity in recent years. By physically constraining the growth of a developing living thing, it can be directed to take the shape of the vessel that constrains it. Just as a topiary gardener produces bushes that take the forms of animals or any other thing, you no longer need be satisfied with a housepet having the same mundane shape as all other members of its species. With Bonsai Kitten, a world of variation awaits you, limited only by your own imagination.
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Well? Can anyone tell me if this is a hoax?!!!????

Please tell me this is a joke.

Yes, its an internet hoax. Go to www.hoaxbusters.org, they debunk it there. Kitties rejoice everywhere!
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Stax said:

Wait, the site isn't there
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CarrieLee said:

happy to help. BTW - I fixed the link.

Stax said:

Well, it looks like hoaxbusters is no more. In any case, it is not real.

Snopes to the rescue! It's fake

Origins: Bonsai kittens are not real. Nobody is making bonsai kittens. Nobody is selling equipment to help people make bonsai kittens. The Bonsai Kitten web site is a joke, not an actual promotion for the making of bonsai kittens. Investigations by law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have already determined no real cats were harmed in the creation of the pictures used on the Bonsai Kitten web site. Signing a petition to shut down the Bonsai Kitten web site will not prevent any kittens from being harmed, because no kittens were harmed in the first place.

It was all a joke, one which some say was in terribly poor taste. If that was your reaction, take comfort in the knowledge that many others thought the same.

How could you have known the Bonsai Kitten site was a satire despite its lack of "This is a joke!" banners emblazoned across it? Satire doesn't always announce itself as such (some feel that would ruin its humor), so in cases like this, one dusts off the common sense and aims it at the problem:


The process described is impossible -- animals so treated would die long before they could be "molded."

The web site offers no way to purchase the materials advertised -- a real commercial enterprise wouldn't build consumer interest through a flashy web site then fail to offer anything for sale.

"Bonsai Kitten" displays no actual pictures of the finished product -- there are no molded kittens on display.

RipHer2Shreds said:

I read about it there too. THANK GOD!

applekisses said:

Thank God for sure. I swear, if I ever caught someone doing that kind of shit, I would be in jail for murder!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Me too!!! I'd kill them with my bare hands!

Stax said:

Accidentally putting a comma in a link will mess up the url
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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

i hear ya... i feel the same way about debeaking, tail docking, mulesing and all of the other horrendous livestock practices... it's what gets me out on the street on a regular basis.

Now they'll only make that doesn't steal my wallet!

I'm glad it's not real, because then I too would have to punish them severely.

You ever had a gnaw your legs off?

See, I didn't think so.

subhuman09 said:

no, but my cat has tried a few times...


tell Harold i said hi!

irresistibleb1tch said:

=

He says to give the cat tuna, then it will be tastier.

Dude-that's disgusting.

It's a hoax?

So there's still a chance to get in on the ground floor of this thing?









Banzai! edit
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2the9s said:

irresistibleb1tch said:

Hey! I was there first!

2the9s said:

ok... ...Bonsai Bunnies it is.

applekisses said:

Me three! I'm sooo glad that the bonsai kitten thing is not real, because at first I thought it was!

No...they don't stuff kittens in a bottle to stunt their growth.

However...they DO stick those cute little kittens in a pot of boiling water, and before they die from shock are skinned alive, then stuck back in the pot and cooked to perfection.

I saw it myself on TV and almost puked.

Check it out for yourself;

http://www.messybeast.com/eat-cats.htm

PurpleJedi said: