Roseville, CA Animal Ordinances: Exotic Pets (2026)

Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations, Section 671, makes it a statewide offense to import, transport, or possess any animal on the state's restricted species list without a department-issued permit, and Roseville residents are bound by it like every other California city. The list, reproduced in the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Restricted Species Laws and Regulations Manual (DFW 1312d), splits animals into two categories: 'welfare' animals (marked W), restricted mainly to prevent depletion of wild populations and protect animal welfare, and 'detrimental' animals (marked D), restricted because they threaten native wildlife, agriculture, or public safety.

All primates other than humans are restricted (W). The entire cat family, Felidae, is restricted (W) except domestic cats and their hybrids; cheetahs carry the stricter 'detrimental' designation. The dog family, Canidae, is restricted (W) in full except domesticated dogs, and F1-generation wolf hybrids are restricted even though no state permit is required for their later-generation progeny. 1 are issued only for defined purposes such as licensed breeding, commercial exhibition, education, or scientific research, not for keeping a restricted animal as a household pet. 32, separately makes it unlawful for any person to keep any wild animal within city limits, with narrow carve-outs for research, teaching institutions, veterinarians, licensed game farms, nonprofit zoos, commercial sellers, and circuses.

190 defines 'wild animal' as anything not already covered by the licensing, kennel, livestock, or domestic-fowl chapters, so the citywide ban reaches exotic and dangerous species specifically.