Only dog that ever bit me was a Golden Retriever. Knocked me down from behind and started biting the back of my neck.
All I did was run past his house.
I was bit by a mongrel when I was 11. Broke the skin through my jeans leg, but no deep puncture. My older brother wasn’t so lucky. He got bit above the cast of his broken ankle when he went to inform the owner to keep the dog quarantined. Both times the owner had screamed don’t hit him, he doesn’t bite.
As an adult my wife was attacked by a Rottweiler as we were jogging down the street. He grabbed her by her bicep from behind. It somehow didn’t break the skin but left a huge bruise and slobbering up and down her arm. The owners only had it about week and it would run to the chain link fence in it’s yard and growl and bark at everyone who went by. I had mentioned earlier that one day it was going to get out.
After the attack I went to the owner’s door and told him the dog had attacked us. His response was it hadn’t happened because the dog was safely in the backyard. Right then the dog came around the corner growling.
After that the dog was gone and we never saw it again.
Whenever I hear about cops killing ‘sweet’ dogs I have a healthy skepticism.