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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.

Bonsai Kitten - The art of kitten bonsai.

Cat Chat: Bonsaikitten.com is back - Bulletin board of postings by outraged cat lovers.

Cruel Site of the Day: Happiness is a Rectilinear Kitten - The cruel site for December 22, 2000. Dozens of related Web links.

Ground Zero: Satire's bite - Animal lovers aren't laughing at kitty-contorting Web spoof. By Joe Salkowski.

Hugs For Homeless Animals: Stop Cruelty - Includes on-line petition to have Bonsai Kitten sites taken off-line.

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.

Irish Times: FBI investigates 'bonsai kitten' website - A spoof website devoted to 'growing' kittens in glass jars is under investigation by the FBI.

Ohio University Post: A dose of virtual reality on V-Day - Review of several dark websites including Bonsai Kitten. By Gail Cetnar.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Slashdot: Bonsaikitten Eaten By Carnivore - News and discussion forum.

Stop Bonsai Kittens - Dedicated to the eradication of the highly offensive Bonsai Kitten website.

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.

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.

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.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Bonsai Kitten - Is someone making 'bonsai kittens'?

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.

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