Legal eagles, how does it usually go when somebody’s dog attacks you—as far as suing the owner?

[LWolf]

3. Are you planning to be attacked by a vicious dog?

I grew up a decade later than you. Still, in an era where dogs ran loose, leash laws, if they existed, were often ignored, and it was common to meet loose dogs with no owner present. I guess I was lucky. The only "vicious" dogs I met were a great Pyrenees and a malamute that were kept sequestered by their owners because they WOULD bite non-family members. And, much later in adulthood, a chow that I considered untrustworthy, although he never bit me.

3 out of so many in my 53 years; am I just lucky, or are the incidence of "vicious" dogs just that small?

Maybe the percentage of vicious people who keep dogs has risen?