SILLY ANIMAL LAWS : some REAL laws that are unreal.
These are actual laws - and as strange as they are, they are real!
- In Massachusetts, it is illegal to feed ducks on Sunday between the hours of 5am and 12pm while humming.
- In the town of Blythe, Ca., It is illegal to wear cowboy boots on Main Street if you do not own at least 5 head of cattle.
- In the coastal provinces of Canada it is illegal to shoot whales from a moving automobile.
- In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head.
- A monkey was actually tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
- In Egyptian times, the penalty for killing a greyhound was equivalent to that of killing a man.
- In Louisiana, it is also illegal to wear an alligator costume.
- Dogs are prohibited from flying a kite on most public beaches.
- Mississippi has laws against "rowdy cats" who freely roam the city limits. If the owner can be located, he or she may be placed in jail along with his or her cat.
- There are National Park Service laws in some places, that do not allow anyone to kill a bear with their bare hands just to impress a girl.
- It is against the law in most places to give fast-food french fries to park animals.
- You can't kill a squirrel with a gun in a courtroom in Canton, Mississippi.
- It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
- In Atlanta it's against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or a street lamp.
- In Berkeley, California, it's against the law to whistle for your lost canary before 7 A.M.
- In Mobile, Alabama, it is illegal for pigeons to eat pebbles from composite roofs.
- French Lick Springs, Indiana once passed a law requiring all black cats to wear bells on Friday the 13th.
- In Texas, it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.
- It is illegal to try and catch fish with your hands in Saskatoon.
- Key West, Florida, has an ordinance prohibiting turtle racing within the city limits.
- Dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate in groups of three or more on private property in Oklahoma.
- It's against the law to get a fish drunk in Oklahoma.
- In Quitman, Georgia, it is against the law for a chicken to cross any road within the city limits.
- You can't use elephants to plow cotton fields in North Carolina.
- In Seattle, goldfish can ride the city buses in bowls only if they keep still.
- An ordinance in Lawrence, Kansas, forbids anyone to carry bees in his hat while on the city streets.
- In Florida, if an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle.
- In Woodstock, NY it is illegal to walk your bear on the street without a leash.
- In Virginia, chickens cannot lay eggs before 8:00 a.m., and must be done before 4:00 p.m.
- If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive 10 cents from the town.
- In Indiana it is illegal to color a bird.
- In Tuscaloosa, Alabama, it is illegal to get an animal drunk in a public park.
- In North Carolina, it is against the law for dogs and cats to fight.
- In Virginia, chickens cannot lay eggs before 8:00 a.m., and must be done before 4:00 p.m.
- It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
- In Alaska it is illegal to look at a moose from the window of an airplane or any other flying vehicle.
- In New York State it is still illegal to shoot a rabbit from a moving trolley car.
- In Chicago, Illinois, it is illegal to fish in pajamas.
- In Oklahoma, people who make "ugly faces" at dogs may be fined and jailed.
- In the state of Washington it's illegal to catch a fish by throwing a rock at it.
- It's against the law in Fairbanks, Alaska to give a moose a beer.
- It's against the law to yell out the word 'Snake!' within the limits of Flowery Branch, Georgia.
- The penalty for stealing a rabbit in 19th-century England was seven years in prison.
(from the Useless Facts website, USA Today website, Strange Facts website, Strange but True Laws website, the Fortune City website and the Freaky State Laws website)