Lane County's Animal Services Code has no blanket wildlife-feeding ban, but harboring an animal makes you its "owner" and responsible for it, and abandoning a domesticated animal is a Class A violation. Feeding big-game wildlife is regulated by Oregon Fish and Wildlife.
The Animal Services Code (LC Ch. 7) does not comprehensively regulate feeding of deer, elk, or other wildlife - that falls to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, which discourages and can restrict feeding of big game. Where the county code bites is on domesticated animals: an "Animal Owner" (LC 7.005.005) includes anyone who keeps, harbors, or has an animal in their care for six weeks or more, or who knowingly permits it to remain on their premises - so persistently feeding a stray can make you its legal owner. LC 7.005.105 makes it a Class A violation to abandon a domesticated animal by leaving it without providing for its continued care, even near a shelter or clinic, unless
Animal abandonment is a Class A violation (LC 7.005.105). Big-game wildlife-feeding conflicts are handled by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, not the county animal code.
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