This time they've gone too far!

Saudi Arabia isn't known as the friendliest of places. They don't let women drive, they have a record of ghastly human-rights violations and they flog and amputate people for petty law breaking.

But now they're planning enforcing a law banning the sale of dogs and cats. It seems that they've discovered what owners of adorable pets in the west have always know: Animals are a great way to get a date.

But they don't want people getting too friendly over there. So  you can't take them outside.

Violators found outside with their pets will have their beloved poodles and other furry companions confiscated by agents of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, the official name of the religious police, tasked with enforcing Saudi Arabia's strict Islamic code.

The commission's general manager, Othman al-Othman, said the ban was ordered because of what he called "the rising of phenomenon of men using cats and dogs to make passes at women and pester families" as well as "violating proper behavior in public squares and malls."

"If a man is caught with a pet, the pet will be immediately confiscated and the man will be forced to sign a document pledging not to repeat the act," al-Othman told the Al-Hayat newspaper. "If he does, he will be referred to authorities." The ban does not address women.