Anyone believe this?

[Mark Chisholm]

I got this email today:

FOR EVERYONE WHO LOVES ANIMALS This is so
terrible.!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A site
that we were able to shut last year has returned. We
have to try to shut it down again! A Japanese man in
New York breeds and sells kittens that
are called BONSAI CATS. That would sound cute, if it
weren't kittens that were put in to little bottles
after being given a muscle relaxant and then locked
up for the rest of their lives. The cats are fed
through a straw and have a small tube for their faces.
The skeleton of the cat will take on the form of the
bottle as the kitten grows. The cats never get
the opportunity to move. They are used as original and
exclusive souvenirs. These are the latest trends in
New York, China, Indonesia and New Zealand. If you
think you can handle it, view www.bonsaikitten.com
and have a look at the methods being used to put these
little kittens into bottles. This petition
needs 500 names, so please put your one name on it!!!
Copy the text into a new email and put your name on
the bottom, then send it to everyone you know. If you
notice that there are 500 names on the list,
pleasesend it to:

anacheca@hotmail.com

Note- Copy this e-mail, paste it into a new one -
DON'T forward it - add your name, and send it to
everyone you know! also, kindly maintain the sequence
of numbers and write your name in the next line..not
in continuation! thanx for endorsing this noble
cause:


Check the site out at: www.bonsaikitten.com

Is this believable?

 

[Rupe]

Pretty sick. Especially the suggestion that they are going to do it with human babies! (See the gallery section on Marks link, don't be scared its not real)

Definatly a hoax though. Any e mail asking you to add your name and send to everyone in your contacts list is just an info/address gatherer or virus spreader. Bin it.

Or maybe by opening the link you've already passed on your info or recieved a virus, me too then!

If it were real, no little internet pettion would shut it down. Big men with guns would be better!!

Plus theres a spelling mistake in your posting ( I assume you copy/pasted). I don't think they mean "faces" !!!

 

[Leif]

What the hell is this crap! Seriously, looks like someone trying to get a rise out of PETA. /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[wct4life]

It's a joke. But this one raises questions....

http://www.petsorfood.com/

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[glens]

It's likely a sham, but don't forget that torture to promote a non-standard human form is (has not been?) uncommon. Consider binding a woman-child's feet so that they remain small, or progressively adding rings to a neck to produce greater length, or even circumcising a male for no good reason beyond custom.

Glen

 

[Babberney]

I'm going to assume this is fake, but I read about a similar phenom in the news awhile back--I'm pretty sure it's real:
http://www.the-cats-meow.ca/twisty1.html

people are strange . . .

k

 

[NickfromWI]

A couple years ago I was in a class and we talked about this. Much research was done on the subject and it was discovered that it is indeed a hoax and the bonsai cat site was made by some bored college students at harvard or coe or something silly like that.

love
nick

 

[Jarod]

College students would never do anything like that!!!




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[Alves]

Ha! we college student are never bored, and we never like to screw with people. Its a sham I tell you, a sham! /forum/images/graemlins/drunk.gif

 

[che]

I love snopes:

Snopes explains Bonsai Kittens