My neighbour has very recently had a baby. She also has a small, anxious, reactive rescue dog; which she took on a few months before she was pregnant. It's one of those dogs that looks highly stressed all the time, and you tend to steer well clear of. I'd not seen her in a while, so we were just chatting outside, she had the dog on a lead and the baby in a buggy. A jogger ran past and the dog literally lunged at the jogger with its teeth bared, barking like crazy. It didn't make contact thank goodness, but she made some comment along the lines of it was stupid for a jogger to run so near a dog that was clearly anxious.
This set alarm bells running for me, I'm so worried about the baby if the dog's behaviour is being excused rather than addressed. I know she's had a tough time recently, and I don't want to be the local busy body, but she adores this dog, and I've realised she's always made excuses for its aggressive and antisocial behaviour (I actually love dogs, so we've talked about her rescue a fair bit in the past.) It has left me really unsettled that this dog is living in a household with a tiny child. Is there something I should be doing?