HELP!!! Website of kittens glued in jars, bonsai style

I really don't think this is a joke. They tranq them (see pics of syringes) and stuff kittens in jars, then Crazy Glue them in for weeks. My students showed me this site today. Where do I take this complaint???

Here is the site:

http://www.bonsaikitten.com/

If you look at the Gallery, you will see kittens being stuck in jars. A baby is sitting on one of the jars.

I have to be away from my computer for a few hours, but if you could advise where to file a complaint/investigation, please let me know.

:shrug:

Look at the kitties with their bodies in the jars, and their heads smashed against the glass.

I cannot believe people could be so horrible. And they have a baby, too. My students are as upset as I am over this.

Please take a good look at the photos.

This was probably the first photo gag to show up on the internet. It's gotta be at least six years old.

and neither did my teenage students.

Thanks for the info - I would rather look naive, than have it be real.

there's a link on the snopes page. The experiment subject, it should be said, was the Internet...not the kittens.

I love this line from Adigal:

"I would rather look naive, than have it be real."

Shows true compassion, if you ask me.

I remember being briefly horrified by the site as well - 3 years ago.

They suggest using common sense:

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.


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

that I visited last night had no option to buy an item I wanted and which was for sale. Other items on the page had the "buy" button. I have been to other sites where the buy option was very difficult to find. Some web designers should find other work they are more well equipped to do. ;-)

Why would they need to be?

Admittedly sick humor, but it's a hoax. Snopes is your friend:
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/bonsai.asp

You didn't click on the attachment in the letter from the CIA did you?



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:evilgrin:

If you click on the link at the bottom right, it brings up Scooter Libby. He must be the CEO.

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Someone emailed me that too; but it's not for real. It's just someone's idea of a joke - they do it to laugh over the hate mail people send. Don't oblige them.

check out snopes before you fret.

Edited to add: some of us think it is very funny to do an outrageous joke like this, some of us think it is very cruel to joke like this.

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

Fake.

I think youv'e been punked! sick but funny........shoe horn! HaHa!!

While you were certainly hoaxed, you also displayed some degree of humanity in your response, and that is commendable.

Mr. Peebles! Yes, he's fully grown, and they didn't even have to "Bonsai" him!

http://rulingcatsanddogs.com/facts-cat-record-breakers.htm

WhatEVER you do, don't flash your headlights at it!

LOL. Is that your cat?? Did you use Miracle-Gro or something?

I fell for it! On a thread about not falling for Internet hoaxes. :banghead:

Note 1) the URL of the picture
and 2) my "flash the headlights" reference to another hoax.

(and I think Marie26 was on to the joke, too)

thinking, and the dangers of abandoning it.

support our troops, war against the sharks

"modification of house pets"

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Articulated Feline Tensioner :rofl:

in your size? :evilgrin:

a disturbing one, but a hoax nonetheless. As someone else pointed out, it's been around for years!

It's probably more rewarding to think things through on one's own first, imo. :)

it's a joke. My sister told me a bout this and al the complaints they got over a year or two ago. It's just silly, nothing else....

I could so photoshop some bastards in a jar right now.

Dumbasses.

And the shoehorn. :spray:

You glue a cat inside a bottle you think its gonna shit?

Debunked (thankfully).

Lex