Some immediate family members got a dog this year, now one year old. I visit three or four times a year.
I’m not a dog person and its behaviour is making it difficult for me to enjoy visiting and is causing some simmering tension. The dog jumps up on me to greet me most times I enter a room. It also bites (not aggressively) / licks my hands a lot, including at the dinner table. My family members responsible for the dog are not too bothered by this behaviour and, I think, just see it as part of having a young dog. As a consequence I spend a lot of time turning my back to the dog, with my arms crossed or leaving a room suddenly to wash my hands. Overall it means I’m just constantly a bit stressed and can’t really enjoy being with my family. I also think they are a little irked that I appear to dislike/reject their new family member.
Is there anything I can do as an occasional visitor to get the dog to leave me alone? Ideally I would have a good relationship with the dog, but short of that, I’d just like it to ignore me. Or do I just need to ride this out until it grows up a bit?
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