From: [Kines]
To: webmeowster@bonsaikitten.com
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 21:47:48 +0100
Subject: Bonsai Kittens www.bonsaikitten.com

No doubt you recieve this kind of mail everyday. Not to mention hate mail and threatening calls to your sales office. And yet it surprises me that so many people can appreciate feline disfigurement and animal cruelty in such a blatant manner.

I have visited your site many times, some prompted as a result of chain emails sent to petition against your site, other times of my own will. And although I may have every desire to have your site shut down, I realise that with or without a site your despicable practices will continue, and your amateur cruel kind will not cease to exist.

How you can find enjoyment in the disfigurement of an animal is beyond me. Perhaps you may find it funny that such an animal will suffer for the rest of its short-lived life, in whatever shape that its owner may desire, its internal organs displaced, its functions limited, its life, shortened and ever painful. Perhaps that baby child you placed near the computer case in the Gallery section to show your audience how it is done should also undergo this Bonsai creation. Perhaps her pain will be your enjoyment, her square face something to admire and relish.

I cannot and will not hide my utter contempt for your kind. You are inhumane. As a Japanese and someone who appreciates Japanese culture and art, I find it an utter disgrace to the culture that cherishes harmony and beauty. You may retort that a plant is a similar living thing, and I shall agree. But you know very well that trees do not move about, they do not defecate, and they do not have internal organs.

I ask you, is this to get money from men and women who are so askewed they do not know the difference between a cat and a plant? If it were only for the desire of money, I know all to well the things that money can do to people. However, if this endeavor is a source of enjoyment for you, a decoration to show your guests when they arrive at your home, then I do not consider you as a person who is capable to understand the extent of their actions.

Your cruelty is despicable, deplorable and repugnant.

May whatever is left of your conscience and humanity serve you well,

[Kines]

Written on Friday, November 5 at 9:48 PM