I grew up loving cats and being afraid of dogs, due to a nasty 4 inch scar on my chest from a small, yipee dog scratch. It's just gotten bigger with age, too.
It's been real hard with my friends ALL having dogs, but I'm slowly getting over it. It took me til I was 14 years old to not freeze at the sound of a dog barking. When you live in the country and like to ride bikes, it is rather an unfortunate thing... but like I said, I'm getting over it, and am ALMOST comfortable around dogs. Still don't like them jumping on me, but I can now pet 'em and everything...
BK