I think I have a shit head for a neighbor. I don't want drama (for obvious reasons) but I'm tempted to confront this guy. Looking for some opinions from my organic brothers here....
These guys moved in a couple months ago. They have a couple kids around the age of my kids so it's been kind of nice. Last weekend they were going to Chicago for a family road trip and the people that were supposed to watch their dog backed out last minute. They called us Thursday and asked if we would mind taking their pooch in for the weekend, and we said of course. No problem. So the dog stayed with us Friday, Saturday, and all day Sunday. They got home that evening. The dog was really cool, and we love dogs to begin with, so it was no sweat off my balls to help them out.
Fast forward a couple days, and I get a call at work from my wife on Wednesday. She wasn't pissed or anything, just had to share this odd interaction she had with the husband. My wife had our dog on a leash and was standing on the edge of their property talking with another neighbor. Apparently this guy was watching, and noticed that our dog took a dump on the edge of their lot. Now keep in mind that we have aprox 1 acre lots, so it's not like our dog shit right in front of their door. Our dog was on a retractable leash and my wife had her back turned to the dog while chatting with the other neighbor. My wife wrapped her conversation and proceeded to walk back to our house when the husband hollered across the yard asking my wife if she was planning on picking that up. Of course my wife had no idea what he was talking about, so he proceeded to tell her that our dog crapped on his lawn, and the right thing to do would be to pick it up. My wife obliged, walked home, grabbed a plastic bag, and went back and picked up the tiny turd from our 20lb dog.
On it's face it's really no big deal, and I agree that the courteous thing to do is pick up after your dog, BUT he had to have seen that she wasn't aware of this, and on top of that we just watched THEIR DOG who undoubtedly dumped all over our yard umpteen times over the weekend while we watched him. He's apparently OK with that, but not OK with one stray turd on his property. I want to go over to buddies house and ask him to come pick up the 14 piles of shit that his dog left for us to clean up, but the mrs doesn't want me to confront him knowing that if he gets smart with me I'm likely to slap him upside the head.
I don't know. Maybe I'm over reacting but who does that? I would never holler at a neighbor to do that unless it was a pattern of someones dog constantly shitting on my lawn. If I weren't growing marijuana I would 100% have a chat with him, but in the big picture I'm starting to think that the juice isn't worth the squeeze. How would you guys handle this?
(most of the time it's not 
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