Saudi Arabia's official thought police appear to be getting into
a new business: animal control. The Agence France Presse reports
that Saudi Arabia's feared Commission for the Promotion of Virtue
and the Prevention of Vice has formally banned the sale of cats and
dogs in the Kingdom's capital, as well as prohibiting existing
owners from taking their pets out for exercise in public places.
The reason? Saudi men use them "to make passes on women and disturb
families," a Commission official has told the Al-Hayat
newspaper.
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