I've been in my new home for a month now, and it's really, really great.
There's just one thing that's niggling me, and I don't know if i'm being far too precious.
On one of our first days in there, we were on our way out when I saw a little schnauzer dog standing in the passageway to our front door.
He was being really angsty and territorial (ran over, snapped at my ankles, growled and did a wee on my doorstep whilst holding eye contact!). Being a dog lover, my instant reaction was to use soothing tones, whilst giving him space and looking for his owner. All the while the dog followed me up and down the street, growling and barking.
The street is a very small cul de sac with only 8 houses, and it emerged that the owner of the dog is a lady in the house opposite. She leaves her door open and lets the dog roam up and down the street unsupervised.
In the last month I've found the dog out in the street most days, being confrontational with everyone who crosses his path.
This I can cope with. It's the fact that he's doing his business outside our front door and up the pathway every.single.day.
The owner isn't watching him, so isn't picking it up, meaning we're wheeling our bikes through it, stepping in it, picking it up ourselves... which I (maybe wrongly?) consider as a big ask for a dog I have zero fondness for.
I did try to introduce myself to the owner once, (everyone else on the street is so friendly!) but she really didn't seem up for it, and didn't tell me her name even...
I don't really know what to do. A part of me thinks I'd be overstepping the mark as a newcomer to the street, if I were to say something.
What would guys/ladies do? Any advice would be hugely appreciated 
xxx