Ok, this is both sublime and ridiculous all at once:
RIDICULOUS:
Dog owners in Turin will be fined up to $650 if they don’t walk their pets at least three times a day, under a new law from the city’s council… Dogs may be led for walks by people on bicycles, the rules say, “but not in a way that would tire the animal too much.”
SUBLIME:
People will also be banned from dyeing their pets’ fur or “any form of animal mutilation” for merely aesthetic motives such as docking dogs’ tails, under the law about to be passed in the northern Italian city.
“In Turin it will be illegal to turn one’s dog into a ridiculous fluffy toy,” the city’s La Stampa daily reported.
Heh..