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Are the pictures on the website edited pictures, or are they real photographs? Do this "art" really exist? Popular? Expensive? Did any animal welfares announce anything about it? jynx 18:28, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

• seriously man... don't be a moron. It's completely fake. I broke up with a girlfriend when she kept trying to convince me to sign a petition to get it banned because it's real even after I told her it's not

• yeah...I found it out a long time, but I forgot to edit here, that's all... jynx 08:24, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

In case anyone's confused about the pictures, I checked out the website. They did put kittens in jars, at least briefly, and took pictures. These were presented at samples of 'works in progress' and demonstrations of the insertion techniques. They come out looking a bit squished, but the Snopes Urban Legend site says that the jars can comfortably accomodate the kittens, on account of cats being so elastic. There's no photos claiming to be of the finished product. So real kitten may or may not have been subjected to discomfort, but nothing nearly as damaging as the actual practice would (hypothetically, if it existed), be.

Contents 1 POV Content 1.1 Hilarious 1.2 Still alive? 1.3 I found the site rather disturbing 1.4 Thoroughly edited this article 1.5 Article should start with a description of the Hoax 1.6 Mirror of original site.

[edit] POV Content

The whole phrase about how if people had a little common sense they'd know it was false has a POV conotation to it. I'm requesting that that phrase be dropped from the article.

Agreed, this is completely POV: "Any person with an understanding of felines, or indeed even a little common sense" Lydia 06:06, 20 February 2007 (UTC)solilique

[edit] Hilarious

Funniest crap I've ever heard of, It's still circulating in my high school...6 years after it's launch! Dave 05:20, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. It's amazing just how ignorant people can be. --65.147.29.154 04:37, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Not really, some assholes would go out and try stupid things like this.

[edit] Still alive?

I've tried to check the site for a couple days now and I can't seem to get to it. Is it not online anymore? Wirewad 03:23, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

I can't get to it, either. Squeedlyspooch 21:16, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

After all the emails and petitions and stuff they closed down, I'm pretty sure thet shut down.

[edit] I found the site rather disturbing

It's interesting that some people think a mentally imbalanced person or child would attempt to make a Bonsai Kitten of their own though. I mean it'd be too much effort for a mentally imbalanced person, wouldn't they just kill it instead. As for a child, seriously there are kids out there who parents are so inept that they wouldn't notice their child torturing a animal in their prescence.

I'd perfer the site taken down, but seeing as it's now hosted by rotten.com. It pretty much has the stamp of approval that it's sick as hell, and fake. So it's like, you know what you're getting into.

[edit] Thoroughly edited this article

This article contained numerous weasel words and incredible amounts of POV judgements... I've removed them and rewritten the article to make it as neutral as possible, notably taking out the bit that called the practice "horrible" and advocating ignoring it entirely.

While I think we can all agree that anyone actually trying to grow a Bonsai Kitten is a horrible person in need of psychiatric help, this article should focus on the fact this is a hoax.

I might take a more thorough run at editing this article later, if I get the time. Lankybugger 15:50, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree, this: "Any person with an understanding of felines, or indeed even a little common sense" is completely POV.Lydia 06:04, 20 February 2007 (UTC)solilique

Okay, I've completely overhauled this article. I finally wrote a more thorough description of what a Bonsai Kitten is (as opposed to just focusing on the now-defunct domain name), and seperated this description from the rest of the article. I also split up the proof of the hoax with the reaction by people, as they were almost long enough that they could use their own sections and I'm going to be expanding this article further very shortly.

I'm also going to see if I can dig up an example picture of a Bonsai Kitten... It'd be useful within the context of the article to demonstrate exactly what it is.

Well, thoughts? Lankybugger 19:05, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article should start with a description of the Hoax

The entire first section is written as if Bonsai Kittens actually exist, so factually, the first two paragraphs are incorrect. Psychonaut3000 01:48, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mirror of original site.

Found a site which seems to mirror the original so added a link. New to this wikipediaing stuff but hope I helped out.