The damnthings should be shot on sight.
I mean that, really.
hahah, Dogs of Peace indeed. You are exactly right.
I would never teach my kid not to be afraid of dogs. Some dogs are ok, many are just wolves with a thin veneer of domestication. Would you rather have your kid wary of a dog who turned out to be friendly or naively assume a dog was friendly when it wasn't.
I love dogs, have an ADHD idiot Border Collie, and have been bitten by a family's German shepherd that they assured me was 'old and friendly.' I do not trust dogs until I know more about them, individually.