LF, you said that the dog-owners are your neighbors and that you don’t want to start up with them. I was assuming they are non-613ers.
Do you mean that you live in a mixed neighborhood? Well, then, that was my point. There are neighborhoods that only have Chareidim – in Eretz Yisrael and Lakewood, l’havdil. I don’t know about Brooklyn – it’s one of the few places I have never lived in.