please tell me that this is just an urban myth?
2006-06-22 02:14:57 · 11 answers · asked by 42 6 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Okay, it was just an Urban myth....
A Bonsai Kitten is the subject of an elaborate Internet hoax describing a fictitious technique for shaping the bodies of kittens by growing them in a confining container as a form of decoration, similar in fashion to a Bonsai tree.
2006-06-22 02:16:37 · answer #1 · answered by Bog woppit. 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
It's an urban legend. The website http://www.bonsaikitten.com existed but was a joke (or a hoax, depending on your viewpoint). According to Snopes, it was actually investigated by the FBI -- and they found that no kittens were harmed. The pics of kittens in bottles are fake, and no real bonsai kittens were ever produced.
Apparently the idea for the website is a spin-off of putting a fruit into a bottle while still attached to the tree. (This CAN work -- that's how a certain gourmet wine gets the pear into the bottle.) You can actually buy molds for squash and pumpkin fruits that you put the young fruit inside and it grows into that shape -- in some cases, with a face on it! This works with fruits because they are still being nourished from the tree or vine, and they do not defacate. It would never work with a live animal.
Either that, or it was a take-off on the (now outlawed) Chinese practice of foot-binding, where a young girl's feet were tightly bound to keep them very small -- considered a form of beauty in Old China. This could be how the bonsai kitten got associated with a bogus "ancient Chinese practice." This painful process of foot-binding did work --but again, it was because the foot was attached to the body and received its nourishment that way.
2006-06-22 11:49:55 · answer #2 · answered by not_mn_nice 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an urban legend. The bonsai kitty thing has been around for some time and is obviously not a real thing but people fall for it and get all worked up. It's classic proof just because there's an internet site doesn't mean it's REAL.
2006-06-22 09:18:02 · answer #3 · answered by Jan H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just a myth the idea gained popularity from the 80s movie strange brew in which a baby mouse was raised in a beer bottle in hopes of receiving a free case
2006-06-22 09:46:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Snopes marked Bonsai Kittens as a hoax- thank goodness!
2006-06-22 09:18:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well his website is real but as a joke -the kittens are a myth
2006-06-22 09:16:34 · answer #6 · answered by ragapple 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is an urban myth:))))
2006-06-22 09:16:03 · answer #7 · answered by VeronicaB 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never heard of it.
2006-06-22 09:18:30 · answer #8 · answered by oneclassicmaiden 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anything wouldn't surprise me in this sick and twisted world we live in today.
2006-06-22 09:18:29 · answer #9 · answered by poo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'll tell PETA to get right on the case...
2006-06-22 09:16:04 · answer #10 · answered by effin' h!lar!ous 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋