I don’t know if you live in the US, but you would get laughed at if a dog barked at you and you described it as “I was attacked by a dog”. A “dog attack” means

I don’t know if you live in the US, but you would get laughed at if a dog barked at you and you described it as “I was attacked by a dog”. A “dog attack” means something specific and it’s not the generic definition of an attack. “More than one successive bite is often called a dog attack,“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_bite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_bite