Intentional feeding of wildlife is discouraged in Victorville through VMC nuisance and public health provisions. California state law separately prohibits feeding big-game mammals and predators such as coyotes.
Victorville addresses wildlife feeding through public-health and nuisance provisions in VMC Title 8, which allows enforcement where feeding attracts rats, flies, or predators that create a threat to neighbors or pets. The Mojave Desert urban edge in Victorville supports coyotes, bobcats, kit foxes, ravens, desert cottontails, and black-tailed jackrabbits along washes and the Mojave River corridor, and feeding these species typically makes them habituated and more dangerous to domestic pets. California Code of Regulations Title 14 Section 251.3 prohibits the intentional feeding of big-game mammals (deer, bear, bighorn sheep), and CDFW guidance strongly discourages feeding coyotes and mountain lions because it creates public safety risk. Bird feeding is generally allowed, but feeders that spill seed attract ground squirrels, rats, and coyotes, so keepers must clean under feeders. Code Enforcement can require abatement where feeding produces a nuisance, including removal of food sources and pickup of pet food left outdoors.
Contact your local code enforcement office for specific penalty information.
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