Glendale, CA Animal Ordinances: Coyote Management (2026)

140 of the Glendale Municipal Code makes it unlawful for anyone to "feed or in any manner provide food for one or more nondomesticated mammalian predators, including, but not limited to, coyotes, raccoons, foxes and opossums," regardless of intent. The rule reaches backyard bowls, thrown-out food scraps and deliberate hand-feeding alike, since it covers any means of providing food to these animals. Three narrow exceptions apply: a person who holds a valid state Department of Fish and Game permit to keep a nondomesticated predator may feed that specific animal; a resident may feed a trapped, injured or unweaned predator only between the time animal control is notified and the animal is picked up; and anyone caring for a registered feral cat colony may continue feeding the cats.

m. This closes the loophole of pet-food bowls left on porches overnight that draw coyotes into yards. The city treats coyote feeding as a public-safety issue tied to escalating human-wildlife conflict, since food-conditioned coyotes lose their natural wariness of people. 150, separately bans depositing food for pigeons on any public street, sidewalk or public building. Enforcement runs through the Community Development Department's animal control officers and the city's contracted humane society, who can issue a citation on a documented complaint or an officer's own observation of food set out for wildlife.