Dear Eric: We have a good relationship with our neighbors. They’re friendly and mutually available for the proverbial cup of sugar, look out for each other’s properties, always share a wave and a smile, but we do not socialize together so there is no pressure to make the relationship more or less than it is.
The neighbors have a fenced-off yard and multiple dogs. Our property is not fenced, and we have no animals. For some reason, when the dogs need to do their business, the neighbors bring the dogs on leashes to our front yard. Their door is near our yard, but they have to walk through their own yard to reach ours. The neighbors clean up the solid messes, but we can’t figure out how our yard became the designated litter box. The dogs are not friendly, so they spend no other time on our property and would have no reason to be more comfortable here.
It seems simultaneously necessary and frivolous to bring this up at the risk of upsetting the Goldilocks relationship we’re grateful for…