Last year dd (4) was knocked flying by neighbour's friendly but enormous dog who was particularly excitable and managed to get out the front door when I popped round with her in tow, to pick up a parcel they'd taken in for me. Dd smashed her face into a brick wall and ended up with a nasty cut and bruise. I felt absolutely awful for forgetting they had this huge excitable dog. No harm intended of course but she is now terrified of all dogs and gets extremely upset if we see any close by when we're out and about. She refuses to listen when I tell her they won't want to hurt her, even if they're on leads. She is such a confident and happy child otherwise but is in floods of tears at the sight of dogs. I don't want her to feel like this, what to do?
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