View Full Version : Cruelty To Cats
an5gel99
12-19-2004, 07:19 AM
Did anyone hear of this website bonsai kitten com This web site is so cruel. Bonsai kitten is when they take a kitten, give them chemicals to melt their bones and put them in a jar to make them deformed. (some people give the cat in the container for their kids to play with. DISGUSTING!!!!!
Go to bonsaikitten com and click on Gallery!!!!! :mad:
avenlee
12-19-2004, 03:20 PM
no comment .... puking at the moment
how did you come upon this site?
southern_girl09
12-19-2004, 04:33 PM
oh my god. That is so wrong. What is the advantage of that. UGH.
an5gel99
12-19-2004, 04:53 PM
I found it by looking up stuff on deformed cats on the internet.
an5gel99
12-19-2004, 04:55 PM
Isnt It Nasty
southern_girl09
12-19-2004, 05:30 PM
Thats worse than ansty. Isnt it cruelty to animals. Someone should say something about it. I would..but i dont know who.
an5gel99
12-19-2004, 06:26 PM
i e-mailed the ASPCA but they said that it is a hoax site but no it isnt bc if it was they still put the cats into jars to take pictures to they would be arrested.
southern_girl09
12-19-2004, 06:35 PM
It is all a joke, a sick one, but it was a couple of teens messing around. Its still sick though. But it is good its not true.-Erin
an5gel99
12-19-2004, 07:34 PM
No it isnt a joke bc this one lady bought one and studied the defects or something wacked like that and she posted pics of what it looked like after it came out of the box. so it is real but the ASPCA cant do nothing about it, and that suckers..
Quincy Wisdom
12-19-2004, 07:55 PM
oh look, a hoax ...http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/bonsai.htm
an5gel, maybe the governenment faked the 1969 moon landing too. Don't trust everything you see for truth.
Renee750il
12-19-2004, 10:20 PM
Even though it is a hoax, why in the world would you want to encourage these wackos by sending people to their website? The best thing you can do with someone who thinks this kind of hoax is amusing is to ignore them. Don't reward their stupidity with the attention they crave.
Quincy Wisdom
12-20-2004, 12:03 AM
Agreed, I've seen this link on many other forums including my own...all you are doing by posting the link is spreading the word...the site has a google PR rank of 6, which is very good. That means it has a lot of links all over the web.
chazhound
12-20-2004, 01:08 AM
Yeah, there are some really strange people on the web to put that site up. It is a sick joke:
Sources:
Emery, Theo. "Animal Lovers Not Laughing About Joke Internet Site 'Bonsai Kitten.'"
Associated Press. 22 February 2001.
Hoffmann, Bill. "Furor Over 'Bonsai Kitten' Site."
New York Post. 12 February 2001.
Jacobson, Jennifer. "Created at MIT, a 'Bonsai Kitten' Web Site Stirs Animal Lovers' Passions."
The Chronicle of Higher Education. 21 February 2001.
Kornblum, Janet. "Bonsai Kitten Site Brings an Animal-Rights Roar."
USA Today. 20 February 2001 (p. D3).
Quincy has a good point that by linking that site it is helping promote it. I will remove the hyperlink to the site as it is fake anyhow.... now when they search for it hopefully they will just find this thread :)
Chazhound
southern_girl09
12-20-2004, 01:56 AM
Sorry about putting on your site.
Renee750il
12-20-2004, 07:41 AM
Well, Southerngirl, you didn't know it was a hoax when you posted it, so you were just trying to do the right thing.
Here's a good site to bookmark and you can look these things up: http://www.snopes.com/
an5gel99
12-20-2004, 08:10 AM
snopes is a hoax.