RE: have you ever been attacked by an animal.
I once had a mate who was shooting rats on his farm with a .410
He went over to kick a rat he'd shot under the hedge, but it bit through his shoe and latched onto his toes!!!
He has a hell of a scar on 3 toes and had to have injections in his arse for a month so he didn't get Weil's disease. Luckily, there is no rabies here in the UK.