Not sure if this was already posted if so, I apologize. One of my friends on myspace.com posted this, is this real? has anyone heard of this? I WILL NOT go to the website (Don't want to have nightmares) but I need verfication. Please see his post below:



*We need 1000 names to shut this guy down, SO DO IT!!!
IF YOU DON'T SIGN THIS THEN YOU ARE SICK! This is so terrible. A site that we were able to shut last year has returned. We have to try to shut it down again! (www.bonsaikitten.com) A Japanese man in New York breeds and sells kittens that are called BONSAI CATS. That would sound cute, if it weren't kittens that were put in to little bottles after being given a muscle relaxant and then locked up for The rest of their lives! The cats are fed through a straw and have a small tube for their Faces.The skeleton of the cat will take on the form of the bottle as the kitten grows. The cats never get the opportunity to move. They are used as original and exclusive souvenirs. These are the latest trends in New York, China, Indonesia and New Zealand. If you think you can handle it, view www.bonsaikitten.com and have a look at th methods being used to put these little kittens into bottles*

Is this for real?
(shocked)

NOPE... not real... check out this link at snopes.com...

Snopes link

Nxt beat me, i was just about to post that.

Phew cause I was looking at the guestbook.

Thank God this is not real...
thanks for the link...
I can't believe they would do this as a joke
my humor is dark but Geez that's so wrong

Phew! Thank God I didn't go into the website, but checked out the snopes one first. I was having a heart-attack reading that!

Yea the pics on the site were interesting. I have a pretty dark sense of humor as well, darker than most. But this I did not find amusing.

The kittens were not harmed in any way. The photos are just of kittens who jumped into the containers of their own accord, as kittens, and even adult cats will do. They were in the containers for a very short period of time. The only evil thing about this it that people think it's real. Of course, knowing the sick things that some people REALLY do do to animals makes this almost believable. I agree, it's not in the best of taste, but totally NOT TRUE.

Funny until some idiot actually tries to make one...

Sadly true. I know the website was made as a kind of joke to see how many people would believe it; but to me it's a very irresponsible thing to do. I first saw that site about 5 years ago (might have been a bit less, but it was quite a while ago) and now I won't even click the link, I find it that disturbing. I can't understand why it's not been shut down, ok I know none of it is real, but if I worked in animal protection I'd try my best to get it removed for the simple reason of preventing any fool trying it...

I was totally taken in by this when i first saw it about a year ago, so glad when i forund out it wasnt real! lol.

Sounds like one of them chain letters i always gets. Sick joke like when people send chain letters saying about children who died of cancer and pass it on or you will get it.

man, i mustbe pretty sick. i couldnt help laughing at this.

I agree Ghosthunter! That is a sick joke!! How do people caom up with this stuff? They need to get a life!!

Well, there's worse. Where Asian woman stamp on kittens with high heels until they die. If you want to see it, then i'll post, but not until the thread gets a warning about the video then i will.

Abit off-topic but i also have a horrible video where men beat these animals to death and hit them with sticks, then they chop them up in peices slowly, even if their awake, it's so brutal, very disturbing and then take off their skin for the fur.

Oh god, Ive seen that. Trust me, dont post it

I'm glad it's a hoax. But then again, fish don't really care what shape their bait comes in.

That's just nasty and cruel!!! It sounds like something from the "burning times"!

Yeah, it's so disturbing, both are. I won't explain the details, but the images stuck with me.

I'm sure they did. And no, I don't want the details. I had a friend who was on a website that showed pictures of people that died horrific deaths. I didn't see much, but it stuck too.

Why on earth would anyone want to see this?

To get some sense of reality.
If you still have them, please PM them to me.

Proof, etc. Okay, i'll give you the cat one, say if you want the massacre one also.

I received your PM,
thanks.

This one is real.

link

Lots of things get dissected, and theres really not a whole lot people can do about it. It's gonna keep happening no matter what, and that whole fake bonsai kitten thing, I thought that was funny, because it was obviously a fake website, I saw it a couple of years ago and it was hilarious because I thought the pics of the kittens were funny.

I dissected a shark once, and a squid, and a fetal pig, I wasn't too upset about, because they were already dea, and if I didn't dissect them, someone else was going to, its not like you can save a kitten by not dissecting it, it's already dead.

UMMMMM i'm FROM New Zealand and this is NOT happening here!

Its not happening here (sorry for the double post)

There are laws against cruelty to animals. I'm not a lawyer but I think kitty in a bottle would certainly qualify. So if anyone is thinking it would be a fun science project they should re-think it.

As far as those torture videos I don't judge why people would want to view them but that type of imagery can cause psychological damage. The short description is horrific beyond anything most people will ever see.

You seem to be overlooking the fact that the bottle kitties are FAKE, nobody does that, nobody sells bottle kitties, possibly only because of the fact that no one would buy them, but still, its a false website, no one seems to be recognizing that. This website shows up every couple years, the media gets a hold of it, theres a wildfire of stuff about, then they hunt down the guy who made it, assure everyone its fake, and then no one hears about it until some teenager finds it again and sends it to all their friends.

It's been established that it's fake but some people were concerned that others might try some do-it-yourself thing anyway. Which is most probably illegal. And I agree we'll see a similar thing again in a year or two.

That's why I refused to take Biology 2, they dissected cats that they got from the local animal shelter. I found that completely cruel. For bio 1 we dissected fetal pigs, but they were taken from adult pigs that were going to be slaughtered. That alone made me not want to eat meat again. . .as for the cats, I just think all of that is horrible. . .think, in ancient egypt, they would have been killed for killing a cat. . .

And it's not the fact that they are dissecting a dead animal. . .it's the way that they got the animal. I really don't agree with animals being put to sleep, and that's where the cats came from. Cats that had been put to sleep. Kids were throwing them around the room and playing around with them. It was awful. They didn't seem to think about the fact that the animal they were throwing around may have once been someone's pet that had wandered off. . . that that animal may have been someone's best friend and circumstances made them give it up. . .and that when no one else wanted it, it got killed.

I think a good solution to the stray problem would be to catch them, fix them, and release them. Not catch them, keep them, and then kill them. That's just wrong. Who are we to say when a certain species is overpopulating? Who are we, as humans, to judge when populations get out of hand? Aren't we overpopulating the world? Are we gonna start catching homeless people and "putting them to sleep" and dissecting them? I, as an animal lover, just can not understand the reasoning behind killing animals unless it is for food. . .or if the animal attacks you and you have to defend yourself.

I can't believe people actually believed it... have you even read the site?

"Glue their bums shut. so they don't mess inside your artwork" lol...

Something along those lines.

Yeah, thank god THAT wasn't true. I remember reading something about it a loooong time ago, but wasn't there something on the page that said it was a joke? I can't remember. . .I do remember I was still mad because, more than likely, some idiot is probably gonna try it. . .

yes it is for real actually, those people did it so they can preserve the kittens youth.

is it true

No, its not. Its a hoax. Wikipedia and Snopes both have it down for a hoax.

Wikipedia

Snopes

It was just a bunch of students that thought it'd be funny to make a fake website.

Wow, you brought up a 2 year old thread after it was already established a fake?

yeah. . .that's what I was thinking But apparently they didn't know it was a hoax, so they're forgiven.

JESUS CHRIST that sounds nasty but still i have no doubt that its fake but still i bet a fair amount of ppl believe so they will end up trying to do what they heard and end up killing there cats oh well there loss

Had to be the best net hoax of all time, did BonsaiKittens.

I found it in school. Maybe when I was about 13...14? I believed it. Was shocked by it.

So funny when I look back at it now.

Kittens in a bottle bothers you, but a genie in a bottle doesnt raise any alarm... Unbelievable.

-Pol

there is a man who makes box cats...its sick

Hoax or not, couldn't the site--if the host is informed--be shut down for inappropriate content? I would think if certain things were real, then the site could be removed for it...? I mean, that'd be a good way to inform internet cops about unlawful behavior and get creeps put away; of course, if the behavior is for real.

Hosting companies basically don't care what you put up, as long as you pay your bills, and you're not doing something which could implicate them. Which this isn't.

I know this is all a hoax...but I do hope it wouldn't give anybody any ideas!

Mmmmm kittens in a bottle sounds YUMMY! Where can i get my kitten in a bottle?

It's too ludicrous to be real. But, it would be nice to set on a desk I guess.

your sick as me...lol.