Don't Worry!! (as others have said) He's just trying to see if he can boss you around and stop you from doing things he doesn't like. There was a time, from about 10 weeks to 4 1/2 months, when Theo growled about everything he didn't like, but he reached a certain age, became more tolerant of things and stopped growling soon after that.
He'd growl when we would pick him up to help him get in the car, when we'd touch him when he didn't want to be touched, when we'd hug him and he didn't want to be hugged and when I would eat chocolate or other foods and not give him any, of course, because they weren't good for him. I would let him know I didn't like the growling with the tone of my voice and of course, I wouldn't back down when I needed him to learn to tolerate something.
I did wonder if he was going to be a curmudgeon because of his growling, but he outgrew it and is now happy as a poodle should be.
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