Sarpy County discourages feeding wild animals like deer, coyotes, and geese, which lose their fear of people and become a nuisance. Bird feeders are fine, but pet food and open trash left out count as unintentional feeding.
Feeding wildlife is treated as a nuisance issue in Sarpy County. As the metro's edge subdivisions push into the Platte River bottoms and creek corridors, deer, coyotes, raccoons, and Canada geese are common, and intentional feeding makes them bold and problematic. City nuisance codes let officers act when feeding draws animals that damage property or threaten people, and unsecured garbage or pet food left outdoors counts as unintentional feeding that attracts the same wildlife. Backyard bird feeders are generally fine. Nebraska Game and Parks handles serious human-wildlife conflicts and nuisance deer and coyote issues across the county.
Feeding that creates a documented nuisance draws a warning and then a citation under city nuisance code. Leaving trash or pet food out that attracts wildlife can draw the same enforcement.
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