Men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female
Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death.
No ass can stand on a sidewalk within town limits
10-1 Animals on sidewalks. It shall be unlawful for any person to hitch, ride or allow any horse, mule, ass or other animal to stand on any sidewalk within the corporate limits of the town.
Police Offenses Act (repealed)
The nation’s Parliament passed the Police Offenses Act in 1928. It remained in force until a new Act was passed in 1981. The old Police Offenses Act covered a raft of misdemeanors. It was, for example, an offense to allow a mare to be mated within site of a public road. Why it was all…
It was illegal for cattle to mate in fields fronting public roads (Repealed)
This was repealed in the 1950s
A cat is forbidden from leaving the house without three bells around its neck
Apparently the inhabitants of Longbern were upset about cats killing their birds.
No bounty shall be paid on the head of a wolf unless it has its ears when delivered to the selectmen (Repealed)
Chapter 133 § 1 If any person shall kill any wolf or wolf’s whelp within this State, and shall produce the head thereof to the selectmen of the town within which it was killed; or if there be no selectmen in such town, then to the selectmen of the nearest town having such officers; and…
Cats are forbidden from entering cemeteries.
Section 6.04.080 Dogs and cats restricted on cemeteries. No dog or cat shall be permitted in any public cemetery. Every dog specially trained to lead blind persons shall be exempt from this section.
Only police officers may shoot birds in the city.
Sec. 18-6. Shooting birds. No person, except police officers in the line of duty, shall injure or destroy any bird in the city.