Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been bitten or attacked by dogs multiple times. Can't say the same about bats. Maybe vampire bats but I have never visited their range.
I am surrounded by dog owners, and most of them are terminally stupid dog owners, and that is why they "own" pets rather than having children, because CPS would probably take away humans in a heartbeat. My human neighbors cannot be trusted to scoop up the poop properly, nor keep their mutts on a leash properly, nor stick to the approved areas for walking them (and we really do have a walking/jogging path). There are…
I've been bitten by dogs a few times. Usually it's a small nip, but in one case a dog bit me when I was going along a road (and got chased off by another!). I was lucky it wasn't worse.