FBI investigates 'bonsai kitten' website

Fidelis

A spoof website devoted to 'growing' kittens in glass jars is under investigation by the FBI.

The site offers to sell kittens grown in jars using the "ancient oriental art" of pet modification so they end up the same shape as the container.

www.Bonsaikitten.com has been created by students and has attracted massive criticism from animal lovers.

The site says: "At Bonsai Kitten, we achieve this by placing the kitten into a rigid vessel soon after birth...the kitten essentially grows into the shape of the vessel...producing the lovable, furry pet you've always wanted, but it remains in the shape you've always dreamed of! There is virtually no limit to the eventual shape of your pet."

Detailed but spurious information and photos of a kitten going through the process are also pictured on the site, reports www.wired.com.

Advice is also given for amateurs who want to "grow their own".

FBI agents in Boston have now ordered all information on the site to be handed over for investigation.

The site's creator, a graduate student at Massachussetts Institute of Technology, uses the pseudonym Dr Michael Wong Chang.

He said: "I really thought that the FBI had better things to do. That's your tax dollars at work."

Bonsaikitten.com has sparked tens of thousands of hate-mail messages, anti-Bonsai Kitten groups and a blistering denunciation from the Humane Society of the United States.

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Nil Desperandum

Lenny

that's horrible
I hope the FBI actualy catch these people
and do it to those motha fúckers
makes me sad for those little kittens

Cake Fiend

Well, considering how many fu<ked-up people there are in the world, I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone intended to actually try that out.

Lump

Cruel Sick Bástards.


John

black_wizardd

OMFG thats fu<kin sick..i'd love 2 c the cats shove those motha fu<kers in a jar and c how they liked it....

Canaboid

Relax will ye's, it's a pi$$ take, and a very cleverly crafted one at that. The guestbook is hilarious.
I've ordered one in the shape of a puppy

Chubby

Yeah, that is so cruel...let's just raise lots of them in a farm instead, feed them remains of their own kind and then slaughter them in huge numbers for the meat instead. Ummm, cat burgers...*drool*