“For centuries, people in the West have marveled at the delicate beauty produced by Oriental artists and sculptors. From gardening to tattooing to dance and martial arts, these craftsmen have enthralled us with complex forms and simplistic perfection. One of the most fascinating of the visual techniques to emerge from this highly cultured region is the Oriental art of miniature sculpture. Who has not been stricken with the expressive grace of Japanese Bonsai? Though once the sole province of Bonsai masters within Japan, Bonsai plants have been available to fortunate consumers throughout the world for some time. With this in mind, we are proud to now offer to you the animal complement of this art form; the Bonsai Kitten.”

Good grief, people! This is a JOKE!

  1. I did not create the Bonsai Kitten site!
  2. It’s satire! It’s comedy! Saturday Night Live? MadTV? Comic books? Jokes?
  3. Please stop leaving comments saying what a sick-o I am. I would never actually make a Bonsai Kitten!

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  1. Calm down everyone. I understand why everyone is up in arms about this…it is sick and disgusting, however, it is only a sick *joke*. There are no bonsai kitties for sale. I ran across this site about a year ago and wrote to every news station I could find. They wrote back letting me know that they had recieved complaints about it before and after checking into it, found that it was a hoax. I do believe though, that who ever thought up such a thing and went to such detail to make it this believeable, probably has some major problems! Let`s just pray that no other *sickos* run across the site and decide to try something like this on their own!

  2. this is a sick idea of a joke!

  3. i think Bonsai Kittens is a sick idea and whoever invented it does not have a life worth living and should be killed instantly.They must have a very disturbed mind, and something wrong with them, and people who believe in it to.

  4. wuldn’t u want people to react like this? i mean.. what was your motivation of creating it in the first place?

  5. wuldn’t u want people to react like this? i mean.. what was your motivation of creating it in the first place?

  6. I want a bonsai kitten…. where can I buy one?

  7. this is a TERRIBLE sick joke! if it is real the people responsible should be put in prison for life!!

  8. wrong fool they are selling them now in new york in the china town district. what sick people we have become. …

  9. what is this?? what is wrong with you people who make these stupid jokes?? Do you honestly think you’re doing something funny? because its absolute idiocy- you have to be a complete psychotic moron to do something like that.. its people like those that create bonsai kitten type sites that bring down the country

  10. this is horrible these kittens are living beings.Not some plant but a living breathing thing!

  11. if that was a joke what the f…do you find funny about it? you’ve heard the sick mind thing over and over, but i hope you get your ass killed someday because you are pathetic. you are a waste of space and you deserve to be murdered

  12. its people like you that make americans look so bad, you make this country look even worse than bush does, (and thats got to be a tough thing to do) you need to be out of your mind to think putting a cat in a bottle is funny. somebody should glue your ass shut, pump you with drugs and stick you in a glass container, or would that be cruel?

  13. I think the website is sick and is lower then the lowest. And if it is a joke which i don’t beleve 4 a second then people still realy want one. And i also feel that you are just justifiying ur self. you are sick and i hope you are made to make a public apology. c u next tuesdays

  14. You people are CRAZY. The “bonsai kitty” site is not MY site. I have NOTHING TO DO with “bonsai kittens”.

  15. “A Joke” my ass. The pictures in the gallery look as real as anything to me.

  16. Just plain hilarious. God Bless America. Land of the Free. Home of the Bonsai Kitty. Freedom, what a wonderful thing….

  17. LOL personally i think its hilarious I HATE CATS and would love to see them erradicated from the earth
    living in Australia and seeing how they kill our native birds and animals
    is FAR more disgusting and disturbing than putting one of those SLY VILE animals ina jar till it suffocates
    Australia has the HIGHEST rate of extinction in the worlds due to CATS and FOXES
    and we still have little old ladies that spend their pensions of feeding feral cats
    id like to see how far they got if they had their pensions taken off them
    better yet how about BONSAI GRANNIES ???????
    lol @ me cos no-one else will

  18. **** them!!!!!! They’re such a **** ing morons!!!!!!!!!!!
    people who doesn’t love the life and who doesn’t respect other lifes!!!! are just ass-holes!!!!!!!! dumb-asses!!!!!

  19. I’m glad the fbi looked into it. No one should see depictions of animal cruelty–real or fake. Some people are not smart or sane enough to realize that this site is fake. Some people may take it seriously and, use the site’s content as fuel for their own insanity and take it upon themselves to hurt or torture animals. It’s a discusting idea created by a discusting human being.

  20. Haha, im laughing. Even if i am twelve years old and no-one will listen to me anyway, i know its a joke- but its got my friends all worked up about nothing. That’s not comedy. That’s sick. I don’t see the funny side of it personally. Lots of people have got worked up, sickened, disturbed and horrified by this “joke”. Take it off the web before I report it to Google or something to take it off. That is SICK. It’s not the actual joke itself, it’s the idea, it’s the suggestion- probably some sick teenage boys somewhere have tried doing it themselves, causing suffering to animals needlessly. It’s disgusting. I agree with Susie- it’s a disgusting idea created by a disgusting human being.

  21. Hahahahaha, what a bunch of reactionaries. You people need to get a life

  22. The first time I saw this site, I knew it was a joke, a hilarious joke. Geez, some of you people really need to take some tranquilizers. Especially those that flaunt their nature-loving peace on earth crap and then turn around and say that the maker of the site should die. WTF, THOSE people are the ones we should worry about… Or maybe just pack up and ship to Canada. Ahem, Katie and Katy. Seriously, if a website with a bunch of PHOTOS that could have been made very easily without any abundance of feline discomfort can make you that angry- angry enough to want to kill a HUMAN BEING, then YOU are the ones who should be rethinking your morals and own sence of humanity. Put it into perspective, take a deep breath, and just take a joke.
    … Or move to Canada

  23. This is a disgusting site & you ALL should be ashamed to do that to kittens!!!…And can you sleep knowing you do that to poor harmless kittens???What did they ever do to you basturds?God will get you!

  24. A joke is something where everyone laughs at. We are NOT laughing buddy…

    Yogi
    (Adopted Puertorrican Stray Cat)

  25. By any chance, do you think that maybe some little kid who happens to stumble on this webiste may, just may try to do this to his/her cat???

    How about this… Let me make a website in which I stick humans into glass jars.

    Yogi
    (Adopted Puertorrican Stray Cat)

  26. Check it out, psycho-people: Nobody is *really* doing this to kittens. It is a JOKE. Don’t any of you ever watch Saturday Night Live?

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