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A spoof website devoted to 'growing' kittens in glass jars is under investigation by the FBI.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_203667.html
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Humane Society: Web Site Depicts, Encourages Cat Cruelty
Release from the Humane Society of the US advising people not to e-mail the webmaster, but to
complain to hosting ISPs.
http://www.hsus.org/programs/companion/bonsai_kitten.html
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Cat Chat: Bonsaikitten.com is back
Bulletin board of postings by outraged cat lovers.
http://pub6.ezboard.com/fcatchatatcatstuffanimalrights.showMessage?topicID=306.topic
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Cruel Site of the Day: Happiness is a Rectilinear Kitten
The cruel site for December 22, 2000. Dozens of related Web links.
http://cruel.com/sub/bonsai.shtml
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Suck: Hit and Run 02.1.01
Whether you're a tortured kitty or an abused child, a moral and upright and increasingly stupid
nation stands ready to defend you, despite the small fact that you don't actually exist.
http://www.suck.com/daily/2001/02/01/1.html
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kuro5hin: Nobody Wants Bonsai Kitten
The Bonsai Kitten website was forced to close down after some high profile organizations decided to
believe someone was actually growing kittens inside glass jars.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory&sid=2001/1/29/163019/161
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civilliberty.about.com: Internet cat fight
FBI agents have so much free time on their hands that now they're targeting humorous Web sites that
are mean to cats. By J.D. Tuccille.
http://civilliberty.about.com/newsissues/civilliberty/library/briefs/bl021401.htm
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cats.about.com: The Bonsai Kitten Wars
The Bonsai Kitten Wars are in full swing as both sides take pot-shots at the other. (First in a
four-part series.) By Franny Syufy.
http://cats.about.com/pets/cats/library/weekly/aa021001a.htm
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Urban Legends Reference Pages: Bonsai Kitten
Is someone making 'bonsai kittens'?
http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/outrage/bonsai.htm
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Hugs For Homeless Animals: Stop Cruelty
Includes on-line petition to have Bonsai Kitten sites taken off-line.
http://www.h4ha.org/stopcruelty/
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The Chronicle: Created at MIT, a 'Bonsai Kitten' Web Site Stirs Animal Lovers' Passions
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York has determined that a Web
site showing kittens being stuffed into glass containers is only a joke. But the only people who
seem to be laughing are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who created it. By
Jennifer Jacobson.
http://chronicle.com/free/2001/02/2001022101t.htm
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cats.about.com: Cat Lovers Call for Action
A call for action for removal of the web site Bonsai Kitten from MIT servers. By Franny Syufy.
http://cats.about.com/pets/cats/library/weekly/aa122000a.htm
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cats.about.com: Bonsai Kitten Redux
Black humor, parody, or satire, or a gross desecration to the principles of free speech? By Franny
Syufy.
http://cats.about.com/pets/cats/library/weekly/blbonsai.htm
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Ohio University Post: A dose of virtual reality on V-Day
Review of several dark websites including Bonsai Kitten. By Gail Cetnar.
http://thepost.baker.ohiou.edu/archives3/feb01/020601/column.html
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Plastic: FBI Goes After Bonsaikitten.com
Count the FBI among the many visitors to bonsaikitten.com who are anything but amused at the
descriptions of how to use muscle relaxant, feeding tubes and Klein bottles to shape a perfect
Bonsai Cat.
http://www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=01/02/09/1840215
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About.com: Bonsai Kitten - The World's Most Hated Website?
What began as a puerile joke has turned into an Internet cause celebre. Animal welfare advocates
decry it and defenders of free speech, well ... defend it. By David Emery.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/library/weekly/aa021401a.htm
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Register: FBI goes Bonsai Kitten hunting
The FBI is reported to be investigating BonsaiKitten.com, the spoof Web site which has got animal
lovers and anti-cruelty campaigners in uproar. By Andrew Smith.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16809.html
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Register: Bonsai Kitten craze sweeps online world
Hardly a week goes by without computer games being blamed for turning people into psychopathic
killers, so it was strangely reassuring to see some of these dangerous maniacs up in arms over the
spoof Bonsai Kitten web site. By Andrew Smith.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16382.html
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Salon: The jihad against BonsaiKitten.com
Another not particularly funny Web site has been taken too seriously by an advocacy group we would
have thought had better things to do.
http://www.salon.com/tech/inbox/archives/2001/01/29/1633/
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USAToday: Bonsai Kitten site brings animal-rights roar
She doesn't believe there is such a thing as bonsai kittens, or even that the MIT graduate students
behind the Web site meant to do anything but make a "sick joke." But as president of Hugs
for Homeless Animals, she stands by the e-campaign to shut it down, and she's hoping the FBI will
take action. By Janet Kornblum.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-02-20-ebrief.htm
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Slashdot: Bonsaikitten Eaten By Carnivore
News and discussion forum.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/09/2243227
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Wired: FBI Goes After Bonsaikitten.com
A website devoted to squishing kittens into Mason jars is one of two things: A trenchant parody
designed to provoke, or a nefarious kitty-mutilation scheme that must be stopped, and probably
outlawed. By Declan McCullagh.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41733,00.html
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Bonsai Kitten
Dedicated to preserving the long lost art of body modification in housepets.
http://www.bonsaikitten.com/
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