Kitty Beef Hoax
Monday, June 15th, 2009We’ve had complaints come into the forum about a site prentending to sell “kitty beef”, as in cat meat:
http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198843
Here’s how I can tell this website a hoax:
1. The title of the site uses the word “Kitty”. Not feline, not cat, but Kitty. This is a direct shot at cat lovers.
2. The site is a quickly put together replica of another site pretending to sell “puppy beef”. The very first page opens with “Welcome to Puppy Beef” and there are numerous mentions of “dog meat” where it should be saying “cat”. I guess someone wasn’t proofreading well enough…
3. More quirks through out the site. For example, the recipe page only contains one recipe and that one includes the F word in one of the ingredients. Hardly the mark of a professional company site.
4. While there is a list of “cuts” and products” – they all lead to the same page. It’s a fancy menu design with little behind it.
5. The “About US” page is signed by a “Yuen Xi – President, Puppy Beef and Kitty Beef International Meats.” The domain name is owned by an American person, Frank from Atlanta, Georgia.
6. Above all – no direct contact details, no order form, just a mysterious invitation to register with the site for more information…
Please note that the site in question contains some graphic material which can be hard for us cat lovers to look at, specifically pictures of what appears to be actual cat meat sold in a Far East market. This is why we wil not be linking to it directly from this post or from the forums.
Pass along this post if you see other concerned cat lovers. Like the infamous Bonsai kitten website, this is yet another incident trying to yank our proverbial chains and upsetting us into spreading its web address across the net. Instead of doing that, send your friend the link to this post:
http://thecatsite.com/blog/162/kitty-beef-hoax.html
