The owner was vaguely apologetic. He was more worried that he'd have to get rid of the doggie, than whether I'd been bit. Other parents at the school said the dog had had serious issues with several other adult males on the grounds. Fortunately it didn't seem to mind the kids, or that could have been pretty bad.
Another more recent people-dog interaction was with my daughter S and her friend T. S and T went next door to play basketball with the neighbor kid C in his backyard. S and T came back a while later. We noticed that T was bleeding on the back of his thigh. Only thing we could figure was that neighbor-doggie bit T. Told neighbor-Dad about it a few days later.
Neighbor liked to let dog loose in their front yard. Now, we wouldn't let our kids out in the front yard to run around, because of the many cars driving up and down the street at speeds up to 50mph. Doggie was a little wierd. Doggie came and pee-ed (peed? pied?) on our van tire. This was purely gratuitous, as the van was in our garage at the time. I guarantee that our van had never barked at the dog, nor had our garage. But with all the junk in the garage, it sure was awkward trying to take a hose into the garage to clean out the dog pee. Imagine the mess...
A few months later, we were coming home, and needed to go somewhere else. We pull up into the driveway, not the garage. Doors open, and kids start to pile out. S is getting out. Neighbor doggie is out loose. Dashes over to S and bites her on the back of the thigh, in the same place it bit T earlier. Pretty nasty dog. Its next door, and had to cross over the driveway and the flower bed to get to us. Poor S. Now she's afraid to walk out front door. Neighbor-Dad is properly concerned for S, but doesn't really show the appropriate sense. This is the second time the dog has bitten a child. He is suddenly into 'three strikes and you're out'. We're into one strike and you're out.
And the kids and the wife still want a dog? That's S & B you see with Buddy in the picture.
-- DCJ
