Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : My family has always had 2 or 3 dogs at a time. I love dogs, and they usually like me back. If they don't, or if they seem to be only tolerating me, I leave them alone. But all of my dogs have either warmed up to me or been friendly from the start. I feel like I have only met one truly mean dog, and it wasn't her fault; she had been trained to be a "fighting" dog, and even she settled in and became friendly. But our new dog is something else.

I'm not even paying rent, so I don't think I get a vote as to whether or not we have new pets, but I did ask to wait for a while. Two out of our three dogs died of old age last year. It hit me hard, and I miss them like mad. My father brought home a 1-year-old yellow lab about 1-2 weeks ago.

This dog hates me and only me. For the first week, I gave him the benefit of the doubt, because he's moved to a new home and is certainly scared. He's loosened up around my parents and our other dog. He's friendly and even cuddly at times - to everyone else. I have been nothing but gentle toward him, but he can't stand me. He snarls and growls at me when I move. He barks every time I - and only I - open a door or use the stairs. Most terrifying: he seeks me out, growling, then starts barking and advancing when he sees me.

I am shorter than my parents and significantly smaller. If I were attacked, I would not win the fight. He genuinely scares me. At first, I tried speaking in a friendly/calm voice while giving him space, the same way that my parents did. This has worked for them. It has not worked with me; when they aren't home, he "guards" the bottom of the staircase and threatens me when I appear. His old home didn't have any stairs, so I tried staying downstairs all night with him. When my parents are downstairs, he jumps up beside them and lies down. With me, he moves to the other room, then growls and barks whenever I make noise or move around.

Honestly, I think it would be okay if he only did these things when I was near him - because then I would just give him space. But he comes looking for me or goes to wherever I am and acts like I'm an intruder. I don't even know how he knows when a door is opened by me as opposed to anyone else, but he only growls when it's me. He especially freaks out any time I use the bathroom, and I have some medical issues that mean I'm in there every 2-4 hours. No one has been able to get a full night's sleep because of the barking. I feel like it has been long enough that he should at least understand that I live here too, because I haven't done anything differently from anyone else!

I don't want to be all "It's me or the dog." That's not a fair choice. But I'm constantly on edge. I can't stay if this dog stays. AITA?