Original Bonsai Kittens

What could be more cute than bonsai kittens.

Original bonsai kittens. The website generated fury after members of the public complained to animal rights organizations. The original site which was first published back in the year 2000 has long since disappeared. Kittens inside rectilinear jars when it was running the site is no longer active the bonsai kitten web site was a joke not an actual promotion for the making of bonsai kittens. Bonsai trees are tiny and cute.

As the kittens grew they would conform to the shape of the container. Bonsai kittens was an internet hoax website claiming that kittens could be made into decorative ornaments by sealing them in glass containers which forced their bodies to mold into various shapes. Bonsai kitten was a hoax website that claimed to provide instructions on how to raise a kitten in a jar so as to mold the bones of the kitten into the shape of the jar as the cat grows much like how a bonsai plant is shaped. The practice lay dormant for several years until rediscovered by a group of cal tech students and is practiced more today than ever before.

Bonsai kittens still live on in our collective internet memory though. The site became the subject of controversy online in 2001 after many animal rights groups filed complaints for its removal while others defended the existence of the website as a work of satire. As the kittens grow their bones conform to the shape of the jar creating an adorable and unique pet ornament. Bonsai kitten also called rectilinear kittens is the ancient japanese art of growing live cats inside tiny jars.

That s why thinkgeek has unveiled the 19 99 plush toy a fake orange fluffball squeezed into a plastic jar.