New Orleans discourages feeding strays that become a nuisance. Feeding bans do not apply to registered community cats (sterilized, vaccinated, ear-tipped), but feeding free-roaming or wild animals that draws a nuisance colony or attracts pests can be abated under City Code Ch. 18.
City Code Ch. 18 exempts community cats from feeding bans, reflecting the City's TNR policy — but that exemption is conditioned on the cats not proving a nuisance to neighbors. Feeding stray or wild animals that creates odor, sanitation problems, pest infestation, or a growing unsterilized colony can be treated as a public nuisance. Feeding wildlife such as nutria, raccoons, or waterfowl is discouraged and, where it creates health or safety hazards, is abatable. There is no blanket citywide bird-feeder ban, but sustained feeding that attracts rodents or aggressive wildlife can violate nuisance provisions.
Feeding that creates a documented nuisance (pests, sanitation, unsterilized colonies) can be abated under Ch. 18, with orders to stop and possible fines; the LA/SPCA may trap and remove animals.
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