Dysfunctional Rules VIII: When General Trumps Specific

[No brains]

Here's a mildly interesting one: The Justicar's Hog-Tie ability cannot actually be used to tie hogs as it only works against humanoid-shaped creatures.

So a wereboar can escape a hogtie by going into hog form.

I wonder just how loosely one can play the 'humanoid shaped' rule. You could say that most bilaterally symmetrical quadrupedal vertebrates have a generally 'humanoid shape'. Does an ape count? A monkey? A lemur? A rat?