As me being a girl/woman I can actually attempt to explain to men why women have such strange reactions to dogs and what exactly goes on in a mind of a woman/girl when she Chas vashalom sees a dog. It goes something like this:
“AHHHHHHH! A DOG”
‘Oh no another dog, I forgot the posuk again….oh hashem please don’t let it jump on me in my shabbos clothes, I just got them this week’
‘Oh no here he comes’
(Girl runs as fast as she can)
(In case you men didn’t know, there is a posuk to say when a girl Chas vasholom sees a dog)