Maybe someone out there has heard or seen this and can tell me if this is an elaborate practical joke, or is some scmuck serious. Check out this web site:
http://www.bonsaikitten.com
Is this for real? My daughter called me this morning absolutely furious, with this site. The number given is a New York number and I would think that people perpertrating this monstrosity in New York would wind up being torn limb from limb.
I’d be pissed if it was a sick joke, but I’d be more pissed if it turned out to be real. Can anybody out there enlighten me about this?
I have a couple of black and white postcards on the corkboard by my desk; one is a picture of a little kitten curled up and sleeping in a small glass rosebowl, with another kitten trying to get in, too. Another one is a kitten curled up and sleeping in the hole in the front of an old typewriter; another one is a kitten curled up and sleeping in a tiny little flowerpot. Putting kittens in small spaces doesn’t seem to be quite the torture for them that we would imagine it would be. (Not that I’m advocating sealing cats in small bottles.)
My boss is French and doesn’t speak English (doesn’t want to learn either because of “what they did to Joan of Arc”). Anyhoo, she received an e-mail a couple of weeks ago from a friend in France telling her about a really disgusting site and that “something should be done about that”. When I got in the office that day (I’m the only one there who speaks English), I was immediately told that I should write a letter in English to send to our internet provider, to complain about that site.
“What site ?”, I asked.
“A disgusting site, they put kittens in bottles.”
The light bulb went on in my head and I burst laughing and the proceeded to explain about bonsaikitten. I’m not sure if she believed me but at least she let it drop.
Does anyone know when bonsaipuppy.com will be up? I try to order from bonsaikitten and they just ignore me. I want cute animals stuffed in jars, dammit!
No no no, you’re all getting the westernised version. Any true connoisseur knows that the real bonsai kitten involves placing large glass bottles inside kittens. I believe it was inspired by an episode of Tom & Jerry.
detop, you should have demanded that she also write a letter of complaint, but to Marcel Marceau’s mime school. It’s absolutely appalling how they keep that poor man locked in an invisible box like that!
Actually, that snopes link is a very, very good way to point-by-point denounce a lot of arguments people use to decry things they don’t like. Well done.
I’m responsible for a certain satirical website that gets a lot of hate mail and threats from wannabe hackers and law enforcement people and fanatical do-gooders, and I think that Snopes thing about Bonsai Kitten is the greatest thing I’ve ever read. I’ve been thinking a lot of the same things myself, but I could never express them so well. I’m going to start mailing that link to a lot of people.
