Well, in my experience, I’m not scared of dogs. The one thing I will do is stand up as tall as I can appear, NEVER turn my back to them, and just stare them down.
Problem is that doesn’t work with pit bulls... they can and will attack no matter what.
And I haven;t been bit since I was about 11, so whatever I have been doing, its worked for over 40 years.
Gee, it is like they were bred for fighting or something. (sarc)
I carry a gnarly walking stick when I go out walking, I don’t worry about dogs that face me or stay to the side but on two occasions I have had pit bulls circle around and try to get behind me. On both occasions I was forced to smack the dog sharply on the jaw with the stick which resulted in them suddenly recalling that they had urgent business somewhere else.