I've been around dogs that have attacked humans (including the owner's children) as a child. My mother always told me to just stay out the dog's way.

I am now scared that it is "wrong" to ask someone to not have their dog in the sitting room of their house when Liebling is around. Liebling doesn't like dogs as a "nice friendly" dog jumped at him and terrified him for a few minutes while the owner didn't see anything wrong. So we don't visit people with dogs because I'm too scared to ask for the dog not to be around.

I'm sure if I got over myself and asked for the dog not to be around it would be fine. But I'm too scared to. And everyone loses out. But then, if they refused to put the dog away, they'd still lose out - so I really don't have anything to lose.