A man drives around with a parrot and a zebra...

(CBS/AP) DUBUQUE, Iowa - If you drive around with a parrot and a zebra, you're probably going to attract some attention. Which, it seems, is why an Iowa man who parked outside a Dubuque bar now finds himself charged with drunk driving.

KCRG-TV reports officers arrested 56-year-old Jerald Reiter on Sunday in the parking lot of the Dog House bar in Dubuque, where people had been taking photos of the animals in his truck.

Reiter says the zebra and macaw parrot are pets and like riding in the truck. Reiter claims he sometimes takes the animals into the bar, although the owner says they're not allowed inside. (After all, it's called the Dog House, not the zebra or parrot house)

Officers gave Reiter a field sobriety test and charged him with drunken driving. Reiter disputes the arrest. He says he was about to let a passenger - a person - begin driving.

He says he thinks someone who came to see the animals called police.