Really sorry to hear about your incident Wheeze.

My wife was bitten by a loose young pit bull cross affair when we were on holiday in Kefalonia. She was pregnant at the time but battered it with her handbag which made it run off. We took refuge in a hotel to call a taxi to take her to hospital. I had recently done a high level first aid course and while I was patching her up the guy from the pool bar begged us to report it to the police as it had been attacking people over the last few weeks. Wife and baby ended up being fine, never found out if anything got done about the dog.

We were both really shaken by it and are still wary around any blunt muzzled dog to be honest.

We got the whole what did you do? They can sense when people don't like dogs etc.. from other holiday makers. This stopped quickly when I explained that we were dog lovers and owned 2 dogs off working lines that were extremely well trained to behave around people and livestock.

As you're a dog lover and don't carry any prejudice over dogs; I hope that you will get over it quickly but I'm afraid to say you will probably still be wary over similar looking breads.