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Marco Feb 17, 8:15 am show options
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Date: 17 Feb 2005 08:15:30 -0800
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Hi all,

I am try to raise some bonsai kittens as specified in the site
www.bonsaikitten.com. I insert them in cubic transparent
plastic boxes provided with feeding tubes and valves to collect
excreta. However, I am having the following problems:

1) The cats often die after a few weeks, in one case even days.

2) Those cats which do survive do not acquire a good cubic
shape, except when put in the same position which they used to
have inside the box.

I have tried to contact the authors of the website by email but
received no answer, and since no photographs of grown bonsai
cats appear anywhere on the site, I am beginning to suspect it
may be a fraud (however, I never bought any products from them).
Anyone had similar experiences?
Thanks,

Marco

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I.P.Freely Feb 17, 8:59 am show options
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:59:03 -0000
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"Marco" wrote in message

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Hi all,

I am try to raise some bonsai kittens as specified in the site
www.bonsaikitten.com. I insert them in cubic transparent
plastic boxes provided with feeding tubes and valves to collect
excreta. However, I am having the following problems:

1) The cats often die after a few weeks, in one case even days.

2) Those cats which do survive do not acquire a good cubic
shape, except when put in the same position which they used to
have inside the box.

I have tried to contact the authors of the website by email but
received no answer, and since no photographs of grown bonsai
cats appear anywhere on the site, I am beginning to suspect it
may be a fraud (however, I never bought any products from them).
Anyone had similar experiences?
Thanks,

That is such an original troll.....NOT

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I ain't p*ssed off. I'm in f*cking wonderment. I'm waiting to be kept
happy
by another f*cking fairytale."
- Al Swearengen

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..oO rach Oo. Feb 17, 4:12 pm show options
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:12:04 -0500
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I agree with you. Even after being on snopes.com weeks ago, there are
still
trying to pull the wool over people's eyes.

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"Marco" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I am try to raise some bonsai kittens as specified in the site
www.bonsaikitten.com. I insert them in cubic transparent
plastic boxes provided with feeding tubes and valves to collect
excreta. However, I am having the following problems:

1) The cats often die after a few weeks, in one case even days.

2) Those cats which do survive do not acquire a good cubic
shape, except when put in the same position which they used to
have inside the box.

I have tried to contact the authors of the website by email but
received no answer, and since no photographs of grown bonsai
cats appear anywhere on the site, I am beginning to suspect it
may be a fraud (however, I never bought any products from them).
Anyone had similar experiences?
Thanks,

That is such an original troll.....NOT

--
I.P.Freely

I ain't p*ssed off. I'm in f*cking wonderment. I'm waiting to be kept
happy
by another f*cking fairytale."
- Al Swearengen

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soft Feb 18, 11:14 am show options
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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:14:59 GMT
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Cruelty to Kittens by Rearing Them In Jars-Fiction!

bullet Summary of eRumor:
This email says there is a Japanese man in New York stuffing kittens
into bottles and rearing them so they'll take on the shape of the
bottle. They are being called "bonsai" kittens and have become the
rage in New York, China, Indonesia, and New Zealand. The email refers
you to the website at www.bonsaikitten.com
bullet The Truth
The bonsai kitten website is a hoax, created as a joke by some
students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There are
numerous published reports about the site, but one of the best is a
article in USA Today from 2-20-2001by Janet Kornblum. According to
Kornblum, the site was set up shortly after Christmas, 2000, satirize
''the human belief of nature as commodity." Kornblum interviewed one
of the creaters who used an alias, "Dr. Michael Wong Chang." He said
one of the main aims was to "punish the hypocritical and easily
offended by upsetting them, and to amuse those who understand." The
result has been an international outcry by animal rights groups who
say that even if the site is a joke, they object to the fact that it
displays and could provoke animal cruelty. In response to concerns
from Internet readers, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals investigated the site and found no evidence of
animal abuse. No kittens have actually been put through the torture
described on the site. An FBI investigation was also opened.
For more information:

http://www.hsus.org/programs/compani...ai_kitten.html

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors...saikittens.htm

Karryl

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http://www.elexorr.com/~soft/Mat/index.htm
http://www.elexorr.com/~soft/cats/index.htm

"If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending
him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times
more dangerous."
----Desmond Bagley.

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Cat man Feb 18, 9:22 pm show options
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Date: 18 Feb 2005 21:22:10 -0800
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Lets think deeply about what you just said. Umm, no, thats impossible,
the same thought keeps pushing me back up: Youre a ****er and you get
high, while stuffing marajuiana into your ass, and did I mention youre
a ****er? oh yes, i did, well, ill mention it again, youre a ****er.
you know what a good method for getting the kittens into the shape of a
cube would be? i know! SMASH YOUR HEAD AGAINST A BRICK WALL UNTIL YOU
THINK YOU DID, THEN THROW YOURSELF INTO THE FIERY CHASM FROM WHENCE YOU
CAME, OR I WILL.
cya,
cat man(your mortal enemy)

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Cat man Feb 19, 5:51 pm show options
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Date: 19 Feb 2005 17:51:30 -0800
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im going to make a copy of this post for evidence then

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Kat via CatKB.com Feb 28, 11:05 am show options
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:05:41 GMT
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I'm gonna have 2 agree with Cat Man on this 1.... What type of idiot
not
only has the horrible mind set 2 do something like this, but tries it
repeatedly and wonders y they die.... Because u idiot, cats r ment 2 b
the
shape they were mad, not manipulated in ur lil glass box so u can feel
like
u have soemthing new and pretty 2 look at.... THis is a horrible and
tasteless joke, and i signed that e-mail regardless of whether or not
this
thing is a prank because idiots like urself just may take the 'DO NOT
TRY
THIS AT HOME' warning and choose 2 try it...... ur a heartless idiot..

Kat

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BuZZard Feb 28, 11:50 am show options
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:50:25 -0500
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"Kat via CatKB.com" wrote in
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I'm gonna have 2 agree with Cat Man on this
1.... What type of idiot not
| only has the horrible mind set 2 do something
like this, but tries it
| repeatedly and wonders y they die.... Because u
idiot, cats r ment 2 b the
| shape they were mad, not manipulated in ur lil
glass box so u can feel like
| u have soemthing new and pretty 2 look at....
THis is a horrible and
| tasteless joke, and i signed that e-mail
regardless of whether or not this
| thing is a prank because idiots like urself just
may take the 'DO NOT TRY
| THIS AT HOME' warning and choose 2 try it......
ur a heartless idiot..
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| Kat
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I have a cat in a jar.. its very happy.

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Cat man Mar 4, 2:55 pm show options
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Date: 4 Mar 2005 14:55:14 -0800
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thank you catKB.com, it feels like i have an ally now. BuZZard i hate
you, i wish you were condemned to a jar for your life!

cat man

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Evidence of what? That the bonsai kittens thing is fake? I think we all
knew that 5 years ago.

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dude im just posting this because the original author said he wanted
the original destroyed so i posted this (i know its fake but the site
should be removed)