> While an adult guy like me doesn't care about the little rat bite, that's going to traumatize a little kid away from liking dogs. Our neighbor has a "scraggl

> While an adult guy like me doesn't care about the little rat bite, that's going to traumatize a little kid away from liking dogs. Our neighbor has a "scraggly little white dog" as you describe. It bit my (then three year old) daughter while she was riding her bike a year ago. It certainly didn't do any favors for her trust of dogs. Doesn't help that everyone and their mother seems to leave their dogs off leashes and then just say "oh don't worry, he's nice" as my kids are screaming their heads off while a creature roughly as big as they are sniffs and yips at them.