Shelly wrote:


I'm going to try talking to across-the-hall neighbor (she works for
the management company), to see what she thinks. I'm weighing the
pros and cons of pre-emptively telling the management company exactly
who the problem owners are. I really don't want to do that, though,
because I don't want to be a big, fat tattle-tale. On the other
hand, the stakes are kind of high.

Damned right.

I wouldn't even approach the problem dogs' owners. Go straight to the
management company and let them deal with it.

And I think the suggestions for making your dog visually distinctive are
good. Morons failing to clean up after their dogs are an ongoing issue
at Canine Country, as are idiots who feel it's perfectly okay to have 8
out-of-control dogs careening around.

My dogs wear blaze orange vests with reflective striping that make them
instantly recognizable from far away. Nobody is going to mistake them
for any other dogs, and conversely, it keeps me on the up and up as
well. They drop a load or misbehave in any other way, I own it.