How do you defend yourself against a dog attacking you?

I usually sit when there's a dog attacking me. because once you sit down the dog will run away maybe thinking that you will get something on the floor that you can use to hurt the dog. but of course you have to bring something that you can use

To defend yourself you basically want to try and make sure the teeth dont touch you. I would suggest if you can kicking the dog under its chin in the throat because if a dog cant breathe it cant attack. if thats not an option then I would not suggest running as that would make that worse, never turn your back on an aggressive dog, but I would suggest trying to climb some where the dog cannot get to. Reason being if the dog cant reach you then it cant hurt you.

This almost happened to me once, but luckily my calm reactions stopped it short. I was walking down the street when this huge dog starting barking and running toward me and I was prepared to be bitten, but I just crossed my arms in front of me (prepared to cover my face if necessary), averted my eyes, and kept walking at my same pace. I told the dog in a firm voice to "go away, go home." Never run, because it's a dog's instinct to chase anything that runs, and never make eye contact with an aggressive dog because that's an aggressive gesture in a dog's point of view. DO NOT wave your arms or act as if you are going to strike the dog. Look downward and away, and turn the side of your body toward the dog, which they interpret as signs of submission, keeping the dog in your peripheral vision. Reacting calmly and submissively MAY deter the attack. I suppose if the dog had attacked me, I would have curled up in a ball, using my arms to protect my head and face, and screamed until help arrived! Gouging the dog's eyes, if in a position to do so, would surely distract him from the attack, or possibly even kill the dog. Hey, if it's me or the dog, the dog goes!

I had this in my mind too....i'm one of those who are really scared of stray dogs----they can go insane in winters and rains and start biting those who passby them on the roads.well first thing comes to my mind when a dog tries to attack me is " I would transform into Usain Bolt (the world's fastest Man) and start running like heck lol " never look back just make your butt with no second thoughts.I also came to know that we should never look into the eyes of stray dogs steadily...it would only make them furious and you end up with their teeth marks on your legs if you're bad at running .great day.

well i have never experience being attacked by a dog but if that situation happens well definitely i would never run back or turn back away from the dog exposing your back, your rear-end and your legs because the dog might jump over into you and for sure it will just make more worst for you to defend yourself against the raging dog. i just thought of you just fight the dog like grab something hard say a wood or a baseball bat would be good hehe and smash it right into it's face the kicking the dog if you can't find a hard thing to spank the dog but do not kick the dog near into it's mouth or teeth, kicking it's troat might be a good idea but still worth a risk hehe. i just prefer going to smash a hard thing into the dogs face.