What does evenryone think of this website?

Question

at first i thought this website was a joke, but its serious and really getting me down.

Its pure cruelty to animals and i want to know why this hasnt been looked into by the RSPCA!

Can people please let me know yr opinions on this website. I think its sick and the people should be arrested for this!

www.shorty.com/bonsaikitten/

Answer 1

They are fake, the website is a joke site.

If you look at the pictures you can see that they aren't stuck or mistreated. My cat gets into bags and jars all the time on his own, and can even turn around in them.

Answer 2

it is just a hOaX...

Bonsai Kitten was an internet hoax, which claimed to give instructions on how to grow kittens in bottles as a form of decoration, similar in fashion to a Bonsai tree. Soon after birth the kitten is supposedly placed in a glass container, allowing the kitten to grow to fill the vessel that contains it.

The kitten allegedly breathes through specially drilled holes in the glass and may be fed and expel waste through tubes, and their purpose is supposedly as an elaborate ornament, instead of a pet. Bonsai Kittens were first publicized on a how-to site called www.BonsaiKitten.com in 2000, though this domain no longer directs users to the site.

The Hoax

Despite a massive negative response and much belief otherwise, the entire site was an elaborate hoax by a group of MIT graduate students.

The site was in part a parody of the Japanese art of bonsai, but also resembles the mythical practice of comprachicos (in which the subjects are human).

The hoax suggested that people could buy the required equipment through the website; this turned out to be entirely false, like the rest of the site. The hoaxer went so far as to create a falsified guestbook on the site, containing user responses, but checking these email addresses proves fruitless, as none of the users are real. Further support for the hoax came in the form of a falsified mailing list.

While the site was still live, the original registrant for Bonsaikitten.com was falsely listed with the address for the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University.

Reaction...

A number of people fell for the hoax. Both those who were fooled, and those who felt that it was advocating animal cruelty, took the time to complain to animal welfare organizations about the site and to set up online petitions to have the site banned. The negative reaction caused web hosts to refuse the Bonsai Kitten site until it found a home at Rotten.com.

The site was investigated by the FBI in February 2001, and MIT was served with a subpoena, asking for "any and all subscriber information" of the website.