38 verified laws filed under Animals & Pets, each checked against the statute and sourced.
The popular story claims a merchant's donkey, sleeping in a tub, was washed away in a 1924 flood requiring a costly rescue, prompting the town to ban the practice. Legal databases and historians have failed to find any such statute in Arizona law or the ordinances of Kingman, AZ.
UNVERIFIED! Various sources claim BC has a law protecting Sasquatch from being killed, but no official statute or regulation has been located.
PARTIALLY TRUE! BC municipalities do impose limits on backyard chicken keeping, but the commonly cited "4 hen limit" is often wrong. Limits vary significantly between municipalities.
ACTIVE! Anyone wishing to keep bees in Oak Bay must obtain a permit, submit a site plan showing hive placement, and ensure hives are positioned at specified distances from property lines and neighboring residences.
ACTIVE! Residents may keep a maximum of four rodents — the bylaw names rats and mice — per household. The same section bans venomous snakes outright and caps non-venomous snakes at four.
No Alaska statute specifically makes it illegal to wake a sleeping bear to take a photograph. The statute usually cited for the claim, AS 16.05.783, is titled 'Same day airborne hunting' and governs shooting wolves and wolverines after being airborne. The claim has a real legal kernel, though: AS 16.05.940 defines 'take' to include 'in any manner disturbing' game, and AS 16.05.920 prohibits taking game unless permitted, so deliberately waking a bear - for a photo or anything else - can be prosecuted as an unlawful take.
TRUE! No person shall bring or possess live snakes or reptiles within 200 yards of a Mardi Gras parade route, from 2 hours before until 1 hour after the parade.
TRUE! It is illegal to dye or color living baby fowl, rabbits, or chicks, or to sell them in lots of fewer than six.
TRUE! It is an offense to receive or dispose of salmon "in circumstances where you believe, or could reasonably believe, that the salmon has been illegally fished."
TRUE! Feeding pigeons in St. Mark's Square and other areas is prohibited. The famous image of tourists covered in pigeons is now technically illegal to recreate.
TRUE! Norway rats are designated as pests, and it is illegal to keep them as pets. Alberta is the largest inhabited rat-free area in the world.
TRUE! The hunting, killing, or harassment of Bigfoot (Sasquatch) and other undiscovered species within Skamania County is prohibited.