Ever had a "dangerous" encounter with any animals?

Whether they be insects, stray dogs, bears, deers, etc.

Dangerous is in quotes because I don't expect these encounters to be necessarily dangerous, like this one.

I was about 7 or 8, and I was walking back from the gas station with my bike because something was wrong with it.

These two pit bulls came out of nowhere, and started running through the block, they probably just wanted to play, but I didn't know that at the time. They started getting near me, and a nearby adult took his belt off and started swinging at them, and I keep walking to the house because I didn't want to leave my bike behind, and plus they always told us not to run from dogs.

So, I'm almost to the house, across the street and two houses down, and I hear some people yelling, so I look back and the pits are bout 6-7 houses down and closing fast, so I'm like "I think I can make it." I throw the bike down, and cut across the street running straight to my house, I make it to the porch and get ready to open the screen door to use as a barrier, but they ended up just running past the porch and behind the house. -_-