Awful experience Terry.
When I read this it spurred a memory of a witness I knew many years ago and he is long dead. He approached a door and a woman was standing there with her German shepherd on a leash. Staring at him, she dropped the leash and the dog sprang at him. Now what the "lady" didn't know was that Bernie was an old hard man who had been fighting since he left the womb and had shot numerous people before becoming a jw. He had no fear.
Old Bernie steps to his left and gives this mongrel the quickest left hook sending it across the hard absolutely unconscious. Didn't even drop his witnessing bag....