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Have you looked at your pooch recently and thought, “I like your wiggle, pup.” Well, good news if you move to Tennessee with this story…apparently, you can bone your dog with no repercussions and they don’t quite know why.

Two years ago, the Tennessee legislature put into statute what most people assumed should go without saying — it is illegal to have sex with an animal in this state.

But prosecutors across Middle Tennessee have cause to be glad that someone spelled that felony out. No less than three bestiality cases have come up in separate counties in recent months.

Three people stand accused of engaging in sex acts with farm animals in Maury County. In Humphreys County, a youth football coach was already under investigation for child rape when police reportedly found images of bestiality on his cellphone.

And in Nashville, police charged a man and a woman under the new statute after a tipster turned over photos of them having sexual contact with a dog.

Plenty of people cracked jokes about the bestiality bill when it came up in the legislature in 2007.

But District Attorney General Mike Bottoms, who is prosecuting the Maury County case, said he’s not sure what he could have charged the Maury County defendants with if the statute hadn’t been on the books.

“There are laws against cruelty to animals, but they dealt more into the neglect of the animals, which wasn’t the case here,” Bottoms said.

[USA Today]

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