Sorry I posted here, but I didn't know where to post it, please move to where it should be if needed.
background:
My neighbor talked with me this morning, she says she doesn't want my dogs running in my back yard (we have a little over 1/2 acre, 1/2 on one side of our house, 1/2 on the other) next to her property (we have chained linked fence) because dust comes up and gets on her patio. She wants me to run my dogs in my front yard. I told her I couldn't due to the neighbor dogs being housed in her back yard and the barking and running of the fence her dogs do. she says too bad. I told her We were thinking of planting grass on that side, she said that isn't good enough. I also told her we are thinking of putting something up attached to the fence, she said, the dust will come up over the fence. We try and be good neighbors, but I think this is silly. I have to let my dogs run. They are not left outside but are in the house with me most of the day, except two hour periods one in the morning and one at night.
My question is: do you know of any law that would cause us a problem, we live in california, in a rural area. (people around here have horses, goats, even pigs.)
I am hoping this is not the beginning of problems with our neighbors.
Does anyone have any suggestions that could help us?
My dogs are three terriors. the largest is 21 lbs. the smallest is 11.5 lbs.

Thanks

From a fellow Californian, she has nothing on you. If you dogs are contained, and not on her property, then you are fine. She could put up a privacy fence, (I’d offer to pay half&hellip and you putting down grass would be a good neighborly thing to do, but barring CC&Rs in the neighborhood (very unlikely in a rural setting) you are not required to do anything differently…

My 2 cents on it.

Kinda a bad situation, as it sounds like this could lead to a “feud” if not carefully and diplomatically handled…

If there's dirt, there's dust. Dogs or no dogs. I know it's tough having problems with your neighbor but the minute she told me too bad would be the end of me caring what she has to say. I doubt you would want to repeat the things I would say to her, but I would probably screen the fence with some bamboo and plant some fast growing hedges like Privet or something so I wouldnt have to look at her.

My neighbor's dust is coming over the fence and settling on my dust right now. I'm going to go over there and yell at him.

Hi Sharon,
I'm going to echo Jessica here. I grew up in unincorporated Riverside county (Lakeview/Nuevo if you know where that is) which I believe is very close to where you are.

From personal experience Animal Control probably isn't going to care (even if your dogs are running loose) unless your dogs are actually biting people. They are either wayyy overworked/underfunded or just plain lazy in that area, though getting better.

Unless you have some kind of HOA to deal with, she's got nothing on you. The only thing I would worry about though, is if she makes something up about you or your dogs out of spite.

Steve's right. Dust is dust and where there is dust it will get everywhere. Regardless of what your dogs are doing. This is the worst time of year for dust, especially when those Santa Anas start blowing.

Thank you everyone for your replies. My dogs are contained in my yard, and are not outside for long periods of time, but when they are out there they love to run and play and chase lizards. There is about a foot gap between her chain link and mine, so we will probably put up some bamboo and plant some fast growing flowering crawling vine, we have trees (small ones that are about as high at the 9 ft fence.) that are just about 4 feet in front of the fence, so we will have the trees and then the vines or bushes.
I too hope she doesn't make things up, or worse yet, try and discipline my dogs herself, by squirting them or something.
We work hard at being good neighbors, but I agree this is pretty petty. So I won't be letting my dogs out without supervision for awhile. I usually don't leave my dogs alone out there anyway, we have strange neighbors, dogs have been skinned or poisoned in the past, none of mine thank the Lord.
Thank you
Sharon

What Steve said!

some really amusing replies!! hahaha!! i agree w/all of them.

i wk for an atty (in NM, not CA) and what they said above would seem to be legally right-on--the dogs are contained, they are not doing anything destructive, noisy or bad. the neighbor needs to get a life. she could have really bad k9 neighbors--she should be thankful.

jen

Not sure about your climate there, if the ground won't naturally sustain enough grass/weeds to keep the dust down, how about pea gravel, or a heavy sand? Pavers along the fence line if the dogs run it?

Around here we have plenty of natural water, and have to fight the weeds all the time. Dirt is only exposed where the dog "spots" were, and those we are backfilling with clover, which is harder for the dogs to kill.

Get a home camera system they sell them at homedepot.com for about 60.00 bucks this has saved my a$$ so many times with neighbors false claims toward my dogs. I have PPD's so it's potentually more serious than your situation but trust me a wide angle lense facing that fence line will do wonders toward your protection, and its fairly inexpensive just record when your dogs are out or all the time incase someone throws poisened meat over your fence. I've had it happen twice now and nailed the SOB's both times thanks to those camera's.