Ok so this happened day before yesterday. Basically my brother, niece and SIL came to visit me. They were passing from my city (they live in a different city) and decided to stay with me from morning to evening.

I have a dog named shiro he is a rescue shiba inu. He has been with for now approximately 2-3 months.

When my niece visited me (she adores shiro very much) she told me that her parents were planning to get her dog. So I congragulated her. I asked her wht she was going to name him and she said she was going to name him shiro. I found it a but strange so I asked her that she was hopefully going to name him shiro jr or shiro 2.0 but she refused.

Instead she told me that her parents promised her that I would give her my dog Shiro. Now I had done no such conversation with my brother. I asked him whether this was true and he said yes.

I was surprised and thought they were joking so i started laughing. That is when SIL entered and told me to pack up shiro's things and they were really taking him. I just flat out told them no. Then my SIL yelled at me telling me it was just a dog. I said if shiro was just a dog they could get another dog themselves.

But they refused. They wanted shiro because he was trained. I flat out told them no and told them to gth and get out of my house.

That's when my SIL tried to grab shiro and I slapped her. My brother came on to me to hit me but I said that if he dared touch me I will tell the police that he assaulted me (I know this was too much, but I m an emotional person and shiro is my everything) They left in a hurry.

They told my mom and other family members about this some say that they were wrong for trying to take my dog and some say that for my niece I should have just given up my dog. Lucky for me mom is on my side.

So tell me AITAH?

P.S. none of us could call the cops cuz SIL would go in prison for trying to steal and I would go in prison for assaulting her.