pre-action venting

One of the not-on-the-lease neighbours of mine has a boxer. A big skinny one. Who is nervous, but seemingly friendly with kids. And smaller dogs, though I haven't experimented if that includes mine yet.

The problem is, that said neighbour lets her out to do Ruby-poobies all over the lane. He does clear them up, but only after a while, after they've been mashed into the ground by the car, or stepped in. She (the dog) also spends a lot of time in the other neighbor's garden, filling it with dino-sized, incredibly smelly crap (what is he feeding her?).

This afternoon, he'd cleaned up the stuff in the middle of the lane, but managed to miss the one at the corner of my gate post, the fresh, semi liquid, stinking one she must have done while he was shovelling the others.

So I was faced with a dilemma. Park short of the house? Drive over it? I drove over it, and it splattered behind the car, so I had to skirt it while carrying Bhodi, retching the while, as the smell filled the car and surrounding area. Bodhi's out there in the car now, happily playing driving, unbothered by the stench. But I have to have the door open to keep an ear out for him, and the smell is evident. Held siege by poo.

I HATE dog shit, it makes me vomit at the best of times. Heave heave heave. This stuff is super-odiferous.

What to do? He has a concrete back garden area he could let her out to shit in before letting her out the front. Is it acceptable to leave your dog out and about while you're not there anyway? She's a big dog, between that and the shit I don't really feel like letting Olivia out there anymore.

Do I ask him to keep the shit out the back? My other neighbour had just cleared two shovel loads from his garden, was considering ringing the owners. But it's nicer to go to the source, right?

I don't know. My instinct is to send Axel over for a manly chat. Though I don't know how soon that would actually come about, he's no fan of confrontation. Or, eh, doing stuff.

Speaking of which, I need to put on a wash. We'll be pantsless otherwise in the morning.