# Bonsai Kitten

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bonsai-kitten/71786>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 9, 2001, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bonsai-kitten/71786 "2001-07-09T05:45:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![MrWhy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@MrWhy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrWhy)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bonsai-kitten/71786/1 "2001-07-09T05:45:49Z")

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[http://www.bonsaikitten.com](http://www.bonsaikitten.com)

They’re joking right? Surely?

Please say they are joking…

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**Author:** ![Ell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@Ell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ell)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bonsai-kitten/71786/2 "2001-07-09T05:48:06Z")

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They actually got raided by the FBI!

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**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bonsai-kitten/71786/3 "2001-07-09T05:48:43Z")

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Yes, [they are joking](http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/outrage/bonsai.htm) (though some people obviously don’t find it funny).

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Jeg elsker dig, Thomas

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**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bonsai-kitten/71786/4 "2001-07-09T06:03:10Z")

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Someone actually wrote to a Melbourne newspaper to complain about this website. I don’t know what the newspaper was supposed to do about it.

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**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bonsai-kitten/71786/5 "2001-07-09T09:05:58Z")

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Yep. It was a joke a couple weeks ago, [too.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=75904)

And, sad to say, it was a joke a couple months ago, [too.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=65133)

Read the Snopes link **Shayna** posted, though, it’s a very interesting analysis of the issue. And completely correct, IMHO.

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**Author:** ![Qis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Qis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qis)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bonsai-kitten/71786/6 "2001-07-09T11:57:15Z")

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erm… in the gallery there are pictures of kittend in jars.

if this is a joke then are the kittens CGI?

i would hope it was a joke, but that dont defend sticking kittens in a jar in the first place.

- frowns \*

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bonsai-kitten/71786/7 "2001-07-09T12:04:33Z")

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Read. The. Links.