Bonsai Kitten Website

Our website - Through Their Eyes, The National Animal Abuse Registry receive numerous emails since 2000 regarding a website that is actively promoting animal cruelty.

Initially the website was hosted on a M.I.T. computer and they were booted off. However they have moved onto several other servers. The website (bonsaikitten.com) is a disgusting, crude, cruel joke, inappropriate and certainly not funny.

Ironically, we animal advocates/lovers are inadvertently generating a tremendous amount of publicity for this sick site, which is absolutely the worst thing we can do, so please do not advertise this website.

The MSPCA, the ASPCA and HSUS conducted an in-depth investigation of this site and found no evidence that any animals are actually harmed from this website. The images on the website are electronically manipulated photographs, not photographs of actual kittens in jars or otherwise mutilated. The site is a cruel hoax.

The FBI also investigated the website to see if they were in violation of USC title 18 ch. 3 sec. 48. Which is the Federal crush video act of 1999. In March 2001, the FBI dropped the case due to lack of substantial evidence.

The website thrives on publicity, and it has received significant attention among us animal lovers worldwide. Our suggestion is that we simply ignore this site. By doing anything else we are provideing the site with more publicity and drawing more people's attention to it.

There is an email going around asking folks to add your email address to the list and when it reaches 500 names to send it to anacheca@hotmail.com. This too is a fake and nothing more than a harvesting scheme. We suggest you delete the email and not forward it to anyone else.

Hugs for Homeless Animals has a petition with over 15000 names on it and still the website is not shut down. They are protected by the First Ammendment Right of free speech. Which by the way also protects our website as well. The best suggestion we can give you is to ignore the site. Eventually if no one shows any interest in it then it will go away eventually. As frustrating as that is to hear, it will eventually go away if and only if we ignore it.