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Imagine being afraid of dogs due to some unfortunately traumatizing incidents when you were younger. What would you do if your roommate brought home a dog?

In this story, one woman is in this situation, and she is not dealing with it very well. When the landlord yelled at her for how she reacted to the dog, it only made the situation worse.

Now, she’s wondering if she messed up.

Personally, I feel bad for her. She shouldn’t have to live in fear.

Let’s read all about it.

AITA for losing my cool at landlord for yelling at me for my irrational fear of dogs

I’m in a sharehouse, and I found it via a flatmate app.

One of the criteria you can define is pets. No pets, pets, or cats okay.

I checked no pets, cats okay.

I have an irrational phobia of dogs from a couple of traumatic experiences from childhood.

It was great until a dog entered the picture.

Got this place, loved it absolutely loved the landlords, had a great time for a couple months.

Then one of them said she’s bringing a dog in from the Foster house as there was no space.

For 5 days.

I was hesitant but there was not much I could do.

This sounds so awful for her.

I’m terrified all the time.

The dog isn’t inherently a bad dog. It’s actually well behaved but because of my fear even if it starts running towards me I can’t control my involuntary reactions which is to run or shout which would make it worse.

Knowing that’d how I’d be, I tend to be really careful and only leave my room room the dog is outside.

5 days passed and its been a few weeks. Dog still here and I’m irrationally mortified at all times.

She changed her whole life because of this dog.

I try to stay out as much as possible, can’t be in the kitchen even when the dog is outside coz I can see it at all times trying to jump at the door handle to open it through the glass and it puts me at unease.

Spent a lot of money on ubereats, can’t use the pool, etc2.

I never complain, because to me my fear is a ‘me’ problem.

But it sounds like she’s not quite as afraid of this particular dog as she used to be.

She’s been nice about it like when I come back home and the dog is in the house I usually peak my head in to check if the dog is inside and when she sees me she will hold the dog on a lead until I’m safely in my room.

She’s also trained it well such that when she’s sitting down and the dog is next to her the dog will not move.

Slowly I started being able to hang out in the kitchen a little more with the dog in the house when without the lead because I started trusting that the dog will not come towards me.

Uh-oh!

Today I came back home with my partner and as I opened the door the owner was also coming in from the garage, with the dog. Unleashed.

The dog started trotting I’m guessing towards the partner who was with me at the time so I started freaking out and almost wanted to run and I couldn’t stop myself from voicing out nooooooo.

And she yelled at me STOP DOING THAT! ITS ANNOYING WHEN YOU DO THAT! IM JUST TRYING TO GET HER TO THE BACK!

I just ran to my room and cried.

She has good reason to be frustrated by this.

But I did say out loud to my partner I TICKED NO PETS FOR A REASON AND IVE BEEN PAYING RENT WHILE TRYING TO AVOID BEING HERE TO BE ACCOMMODATING AND IF THIS IS HOW IT IS I SHOULDNT BE PAYING FULL RENT!

And i think the owners might have heard me.

idk what do you guys think.

I’m moving out this Friday. But just need some perspectives because I really do like them as people people they’ve been above and beyond helpful to me. E.g. picking me up from train station, folding my laundry when i forget to take it out, lots of little kind gestures. AITA and what should I do?

She didn’t want to live in a place with dogs, but she’s been forced to live in a place with dogs. It’s really not fair to her.

Let’s see how Reddit responded.

This person thinks the landlord messed up.

Here’s some good advice.

Another person thinks fear is irrevelant.

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This person can relate to being afraid of a common animal.

No dogs means no dogs. The landlord shouldn’t be allowed to break that rule, and neither should anyone else. What if OP was allergic to dogs instead of afraid of them? Would the landlord still think she’s being annoying?

It’s not fair to her to make her life with an animal that’s not allowed. She did her due diligence. This is not okay.