Hey there Reddit,

Here's the deal. I've been living in an apartment for a about a year now. For the last 2 months or so, my upstairs neighbours (who I've never met) have had a dog living with them who occasionally goes outside onto their balcony (directly above mine) and pees. Our balcony floors are wooden slats, so some of it drips though onto mine.

I'm not sure if it happens all the time because I work full time, but I think it might because sometimes I come home and their are very small puddles of liquid (which I'd presumed to be water) on my balcony, even if it hasn't rained. This being the case I think that they may have trained the dog to pee outside without really considering (or caring) that they've essentially trained their dog to pee on me.

Obviously this is not the greatest of situations, and I want to send them a note or contact them in some way so that it can stop. The only problem is that I don't really know how to approach it. I want to be firm and be clear that it's unacceptable, but also not come off as a busy body or too aggressive given that I've never even spoken to them before.

However, there is one slight problem. My housemates and I have cats. They are both fully house trained (they only ever do their business in their litter) and are never allowed outside onto the balcony without one of us present. Our building doesn't allow pets, but our actual landlord said he didn't mind us getting some before we got the cats. I just want to be careful that I don't piss off the people living upstairs so that they don't rat us out for our cats and leave us so we have to get rid of them or move. I'm not even sure the people living upstair know we have cats since the cats are rarely outside, and we rarely see our neighbours outside either.
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Neighbours have a dog that pees on my balcony, I don't know
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Hey there Reddit,

Here's the deal. I've been living in an apartment for a about a year now. For the last 2 months or so, my upstairs neighbours (who I've never met) have had a dog living with them who occasionally goes outside onto their balcony (directly above mine) and pees. Our balcony floors are wooden slats, so some of it drips though onto mine.

I'm not sure if it happens all the time because I work full time, but I think it might because sometimes I come home and their are very small puddles of liquid (which I'd presumed to be water) on my balcony, even if it hasn't rained. This being the case I think that they may have trained the dog to pee outside without really considering (or caring) that they've essentially trained their dog to pee on me.

Obviously this is not the greatest of situations, and I want to send them a note or contact them in some way so that it can stop. The only problem is that I don't really know how to approach it. I want to be firm and be clear that it's unacceptable, but also not come off as a busy body or too aggressive given that I've never even spoken to them before.

However, there is one slight problem. My housemates and I have cats. They are both fully house trained (they only ever do their business in their litter) and are never allowed outside onto the balcony without one of us present. Our building doesn't allow pets, but our actual landlord said he didn't mind us getting some before we got the cats. I just want to be careful that I don't piss off the people living upstairs so that they don't rat us out for our cats and leave us so we have to get rid of them or move. I'm not even sure the people living upstair know we have cats since the cats are rarely outside, and we rarely see our neighbours outside either.
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My upstairs neighbours have a dog that pees on me and the
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