Has anyone here been attacked by a dog?

When I was 6, my parents were talking to our new neighbor, and the neighbor had a big dog. He asked if I'd like to take it for a walk. I said sure. I wrapped the hoop of the leash around my arm. The dog saw a deer and took off. I was pulled at full speed across the concrete road and into a feild of cactus, before the leash came off my arm.

...Not really an attack, but scared the pants off me.

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When I was 4, our neighbors had a dog - a big, black, aggressive mongrel. I was always afraid of him. His name was Czarek. One evening when the neighbors were working in their field, talking with my family, their dog started to chase me. I don't know now how it was possible I was able to run away from Czarek - I was only 4 in that time and I couldn't run too fast. I still remember this. Luckily I didn't have even one bite on me.

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i came close once, me, my sister, and our friend were outside and it was dark, we heard a noise and went to see what it was, then this dog started barking and chasing us, but it stopped, but it nearly got my friend ...

also there is the physco dog, that when im walking home from skool runs towards the fence and barks like crazy at me, im alway freaked that it will jump over one day ... also there was this house with the biggest rotweeler ever, but it think the family that owned it moved

I was playfully attacked by a german shepherd when I was little. I was about 4 or 5 years old and was playing in the yard when I saw the GS further down the road. It saw me too and came running at me, probably thinking it found a new playmate, and it was barking and wagging it's tail. When it came up to me it started jumping up on me and as I was 4 or 5 years old I was a lot shorter than the fully grown GS on it's backlegs. I was scared and screamed and cried and I tried to run away and hide but the GS just followed me and seemed to think we played catch or something. My mom eventually heard me screaming and came out and scared the dog away.

Looking back on that now, I really think the dog just wanted to play with me. This german shepherd might have been a bit sadistic - I was screaming and crying and GS is not a dumb dog so it must have understood that I was scared - but it never bit me or anything like that. I was scared of big dogs for YEARS after that but when I was in my late teens, 18 years or so, I noticed that I wasn't scared by big dogs anymore. Especially german shepherds used to scare me, just seeing them was enough, but not anymore. I'm 27 now and my guesses are that I probably stopped being scared of dogs when I grew and became bigger than them. Most of them anyway... I'm not at all afraid of dogs now, fact is that I would very much like to have a dog and I would absolutely love to have a german shepherd! They have such expressive eyes!

"Are you Always Mega Hot or are you just happy to see me?"

I was attacked by a Pit Bull when I was three years old. He was a friend and turned on me suddenly. He bit right into my face. I had 48 stitches altogether.

As a tiny 4 year old back in 1986, I remember a small black dog cornered me on the side of the house and barked like crazy at me. Its funny to think about now, but then it was terrifying!

I was bitten and attacked by a group of 3 Cocker Spaniels when I was 5. I was at my aunt's house and for some reason they all decided to gang up on me and bite me. I think they bit me on my leg, but luckily the family was around and got them away from me.

I was scared of Cocker Spaniels for years afterwards, but it didn't really scare me away from dogs in general. I haven't thought about it in years. I had 3 Dalmatians that were my height and twice my weight when I was a kid, and they used to knock me down to the ground all the time. They were just being rowdy and having fun, of course.

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