Dogs are so cool. We never hit our dog, but he got bopped in the nose so often by our knees when he walked too close to us. My youngest son used to like to poke him on his big black rubber nose. ROFL! It didn't hurt the dog, but the rubber nose was fascinating... Our dog just thought it was a love tap. He was so cool... Of course, this was the dog that thought cats were his squeekey toys until they rudely stopped squeeking.
Tiny, who wasn't tiny, was a solid dog.
We never hit her, but we did wrestle with her.
She was a very physical dog, loved to wrestle around.
She did get stepped on, and accidentally clopped in the chops with shoes because she liked to be 'right there' when you walked along.
Of course, we'd stop short, and give her scritches while asking her if she was okay.
The dog would look at us like we'd gone nuts and pretty much go, "Yeah I'm okay, why are you people acting crazy?"