Doubt it all you want but the fact is ATT and Verizon have several call centers in the northeast that are union , for decades . <| sep |> Talk to your aunt and uncle , you can ask them to keep the dog away from you or you can try to work towards fixing it , whichever you feel most comfortable with . If the dog is prone to unprovoked attacks and you ' re not the only victim , then your relatives really should take him to a behaviorist . That is 100 % not normal . If you want to try to fix it in the mean time . Do you have any sort of distinguishing features ? Wear hats ? Wear perfumecologne ? Have a deep or high voice ? Really tall ? Unusual hair cut or facial hair ? Anything that would make you stand out from the rest of the visitors ? A lot of times there is something about you that signals the dog that you ' re a threat , whether you realize it or not and whether or not it ' s really a threat or not . Talk to your aunt and uncle and find out if he does it to anyone else and maybe you can find a pattern there . If you can figure out the trigger it may be something you can fix . The dog probably won ' t instantly love you if you do but it should help . The next thing to do would be to carry a high reward treat for him . Don ' t try to hand it to him or get close . But if he ' s acting calm around you for even an instant , toss him a treat . Eventually he should learn that being calm around makes good things happen . It will not be a quick fix especially since it sounds like you only visit occasionally but it will eventually help .