Eugene, OR Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)

020, added by Ordinance No. 005. "Wildlife" is limited to seven species: deer, raccoon, wild turkey, bear, cougar, coyote, and wolf, so the prohibition does not, by the code's own definition, cover geese, ducks, squirrels, or feral or stray cats and dogs, even though residents sometimes assume those count. "Feed" is defined broadly as to "place, deposit, distribute, store or scatter food, garbage or any other attractant so as to constitute a lure, attraction, or enticement for wildlife," which reaches deliberately leaving out food as well as failing to secure garbage or pet food in a way that lures deer or raccoons onto a property.

The provision sits in the same nuisance-and-health chapter as Eugene's rodent-control and sidewalk-accumulation rules, reflecting the city's documented concern about rat populations and human-wildlife conflict that drove the 2018 ordinance. 992, and code compliance can also pursue a separately caused mess as its own nuisance.