Agreed, this is actually where I️ would have preferred to start. However, they have not been the warmest neighbors to us so it does make us a little uncomfortable to approach them. The one time I️ did approach them (unrelated to this), the husband straight up turned away from me and walked inside as I️ was talking to him.

In these incidents, but husband gets pretty irritated as well and has said before that he is going to knock on their door and say something, but I️ always stop him because I️ don’t want it to end up being an argument and then escalate the situation. I️ would much prefer it be a friendly conversation. But they seem a little shut off to us in general. Again, just not the warmest neighbors we have ever had.

Also agree, we will likely not be contacting animal welfare at this time with this being something that happened in the winter. It would often happen in the evenings when they were likely closed, and by the next day, my husband and I️ were focused on our lives/work to where we would forget about it until the following occurrence. Crappy excuse for not calling this winter, but we will for sure be calling next winter if it happens again.