posted on July 24, 2001 06:43:01 AM
I couldn't believe this was real when a friend from LA sent me this forward.
This is highly upsetting. Please do not go to the site if you cannot handle it, just read the e-mail I received below.
To anyone with love and respect for life:
In New York, there is a Japanese man who sells "bonsai-kittens".
Sounds like fun huh?
NOT!
These animals are squeezed into a bottle.
Their urine and feces are removed through probes.
They feed them with a kind of tube.
They feed them chemicals to keep their bones soft and flexible so the kittens grow into the shape of the bottle.
The animals will stay their as long as they live.
They can't walk or move or wash themselves. Bonsai-kittens are becoming a fashion in New York and Asia.
See this horror at: http://www.bonsaikitten.com/
Please sign this email in protest against these tortures.
If you receive an email with over 500 names, please send a copy to: [email protected] .
From there this protest will be sent to USA and Mexican animal protection organizations. If you send this to your friends use the copy/paste method in a NEW email to keep this readable....
Were you aware of this atrocity?
Please tell me there is something we can do to stop this insanity.
I'm just sick over this.
TIA.
only ZOOMIN here
edit for typos and to remove smilie
[ edited by zoomin on Jul 24, 2001 06:45 AM ]
posted on July 24, 2001 07:05:31 AM
Thank you, Angel. What an idiot I am. I appreciate you clearing that up for me!
I was so upset!
I guess I'm not open-minded enough to find it amusing or entertaining.
What a perverse sense of humor!
posted on July 24, 2001 07:11:25 AM
What do you mean? I have two of them, and they're doing quite well. Instead of just keeping them in a bare bottle I made terrariums for them which alleviates the need for either food or waste tubes. They're completely self-sustaining--the kitty waste fertilizes the plant growth which in turn gives them leaves to eat and oxygen to breath.
They're the sweetest little kitties! They never meow, they obviously will never scratch furniture, and they can't develop those irritating habits like leg-rubbing, and keyboard jumping.
They're still sneaky little things though, watching me all the time waiting for any chance to piss me off. But I made night-night covers for their bottles and when those are put on they immediately go to sleep. Sometimes I hear one or the other purring, a little.
I'm telling you, this is the greatest thing since boiled eggs! It's the only way I could ever enjoy having cats around the house.
posted on July 24, 2001 08:57:46 AM
Now if only that methodology could be applied to ex-husbands. Although, what fun is an ex-husband without furballs?
posted on July 24, 2001 02:42:31 PM
oops!
Sorry Zilvy! I'll try to show more retstraint.
A friend of mine has a cute little sign at her front door:
If the dust balls are moving, it's probably the cat.
oops!
balls again.
Too much sex talk on these boards for me lately.
Gets my thinking off on a tangent
