Bonsai Kitten

[Metranon]

is this for real?

http://www.bonsaikitten.com/bkintro.html

i think it's fake but pretty funny if you read the guestbook

[Ouchyfish]

Fake...even got investigated by the FBI..very fake but still infuriates grannies across the World daily.

From http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/bonsai.asp


Bonsai kittens are not real. Nobody is making bonsai kittens. Nobody is selling equipment to help people make bonsai kittens. Nobody is instructing people in the "lost Eastern art of sealing kittens inside rectilinear jars."

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. (The site does include a page of "Helpful Tools & Supplies" but provides no form through which they can be ordered.)

The "Bonsai Kitten" site displays no actual pictures of the finished product. There are plenty of pictures of kittens in jars which can comfortably accommodate them (cats are quite elastic and can fit into very small spaces without discomfort), but there are no photographs of molded kittens on display.

The cruel.com web site offers an article entitled "Happiness is a Rectilinear Kitten," their comprehensive <a href="http://www.cruel.com/sub/bonsai.shtml">history</a> of the furor and media coverage generated by the Bonsai Kitten web site throughout its first year of existence.

[Gidan]

I guess a quick, nah its fake wouldn't have been enough.

[kaharthemad]

stilll...Hey brin can we borrow the cat in your pic for a few months?

[labbats]

At only a few weeks of age, a kitten's bones have not yet hardened and become osseous. They are extremely soft and springy. In fact, if you take a week-old kitten and throw it to the floor, it will actually bounce! We do not recommend that you try this at home. The kitten may bounce under the furniture and be difficult to retrieve, as well as covered in unsightly household dust.

This statement may have been a tip-off as to its validity.

[kaharthemad]

At only a few weeks of age, a kitten's bones have not yet hardened and become osseous. They are extremely soft and springy. In fact, if you take a week-old kitten and throw it to the floor, it will actually bounce! We do not recommend that you try this at home. The kitten may bounce under the furniture and be difficult to retrieve, as well as covered in unsightly household dust.

This statement may have been a tip-off as to its validity.

hmm this needs to be tested. anyone from the cat crew have a kitten we can use?

[xaoshaen]

hmm this needs to be tested. anyone from the cat crew have a kitten we can use?

It won't prove anything. With sufficient initial velocity, even an adult cat will bounce.

[Ouchyfish]

I guess a quick, nah its fake wouldn't have been enough.

Actually that's what I originally posted but figured some dipshit would want proof above "my opinion".

[exploit]

I sent that site an email several years back and they said they only wish they had some samples to send me and that everything was real. The email they sent back was so over the top a retard could figure out it was a joke.