Definition: Given a real-life anecdote of a complex ethical situation, generate a suitable title that describes the main event/root cause of the situation. Imagine that the given text is a social media post, and you have to write the title of the post, so the users can decide to read the main text or not.
Input: Mobile user here. First time poster.
I live in a city where housing costs are really expensive compared to the rest of the state and I have to stay in this town because I’m attending the university here. I (19F) live with my boyfriend (20M) and our puppy and we jumped on the chance to get this apartment because there are so few dog friendly places to live in the area that college students can afford.

We’ve lived here now about 10 months and everything’s been great until recently. My puppy, a nine month old Boston terrier, loves to go on walks around the complex and stop by at the office to say hello to the employees. They all love my dog and they’ve been nothing but friendly to the three of us until this morning. 

Where I live, it snows a lot and gets very cold. They use magnesium-chloride to melt the ice on sidewalks. This has caused chemical burns on my dog’s paws and the skin started falling off. This causes her pain and makes it hard to go on walks. Before anybody says, “Just buy the little dog shoes,” we tried to put them on her and she despises them and there’s no way she will walk in them. 
Today, I talked to the apartment employees as I do every morning and mentioned very casually and in a friendly, non-accusing manner after she asked how the dog was that my dog had burns on her feet and we suspected it was due to the de-icer. She responded with, “Our de-icer is definitely not dog friendly and we won’t be doing anything about that.” 

I plan to talk to other dog owners in the complex and ask if they’re having similar issues. I just want dogs to be safe and feel that if they’re advertising their apartments as pet-friendly they should actually be pet-friendly. 
I feel bad because these people are very nice and it seems dumb to get on their bad side as I’ll have to be here at least another couple of years until I graduate. So, WIBTA if I assume a more forward and aggressive strategy to deal with this? 


TLDR; My apartment complex uses an ice melter that chemically burns my dog’s paws. I am worried that I am overreacting and burning bridges if I confront them expecting a change in what product they use on the sidewalks. 

demanding my apartment complex use dog-friendly de-icer