Attacking

Attacking is a mechanic in DogLife that is equivalent to assault in BitLife: injuring someone. You will have many opportunities to attack someone, such as house burglaries, encounters, veterinarian checkups, and directly from the option of your relationships. It is important for hierarchy ranks as attacking an animal will usually change your respect, as well as when other animals attack you. Attacking is one of the ways to get reprimanded in the game.

## Your character attacking

When you attack a pet or human, you will be asked about your attack move and target. Once you make a decision the game will say “You [attack move] [victim-name]'s [body part]!” Attacking animals of higher hierarchy ranks will gain respect, but this will not apply to animals of lower hierarchy ranks, as you aren’t actually working for anything since they are less likely to fight back. You may only have one attack move at this time. Attacking another animal may result in them fighting back, doing nothing, or submitting to you, depending on their aggression and strength. You may be reprimanded by your owners or pet store/shelter employees if they caught you attacking a pet. This will also happen if you directly attack a human. You may recieve a mere reprimand, but other times your owners may take you to the shelter or pet store, or could take you to the vet to get spayed/neutered. However, they currently cannot attack your pet themselves yet. It is also possible to fail an attack and they will dodge it. The game will say “You tried to [attack move] someone’s [body part] but failed!”. Failing an attack may usually happen to weaker breeds, such as the Welsh corgi, or if your strength is low, but could also happen if you play as the same breed constantly. You must be at least 9 months old to attack directly, but you can still attack someone beforehand if a scenario pops up, though the chances of it being unsuccessful will be higher since you are technically not old enough to attack them directly..

There is also a less common chance that you may end up killing someone with your assault. Should this happen, a new sentence will be added saying, “He/She died from his/her injuries.” Animals with low strength are more likely to die from your assault. Your respect will raise by a much larger amount if this happens. However, this is less likely to end in a mere reprimand by humans and more likely to be taken to the shelter to stay, or to the vet to get spayed/neutered. Though if you manage to kill a human (besides burglars), none of those outcomes will happen. Instead, animal control will be taking you to the shelter, and then you will immediately be taken into the back room to get euthanized if you aren’t able to escape onto the street the first time. This is the ultimate death penalty for killing a human, similar to BitLife’s execution. It doesn’t matter which human you kill: should it be your owner or their lover/children, pet store/shelter employees, or even the mailman, the outcome will always be the same. But if it's a burglar though, your owners will encourage you for protecting the house.

## Your character being attacked

You can also be attacked by other animals. For example, if you annoy them or attack them, they might get angry and attack you. Animals with high aggression are more likely to attack you. For example, if they threaten you, they may definitely attack you if you disrespect or attack them, though even ignoring them may result in them doing so. They may also plan to attack another animal and you can stay out of it, help the attacking animal, or defend the victim. Helping them will increase respect but could also result in a reprimand. Defending may result in them changing their mind and fleeing if your respect is high, though otherwise, they may attack you instead. They could also just attack you randomly (if you have already attacked them) and you may fight back, get help, pay no attention, or submit to them. While you can only have one attack, other animals can have up to four. Smaller animals are less likely to attack and bigger animals are more likely.

Animals during encounters can also attack you. This may usually happen to a more dangerous animal such as a bear, wolf, or crocodile, though it may happen even if you ignore them and could be more likely to happen if you lunge or urinate on them. During house burglaries and paranormal encounters, you may also be attacked with weapons. For example, if burglars aren’t scared of you, they may attack you with their weapon. Ghosts with low friendless are also more likely to attack your character with weapons.

* **Damage Sheet(# of lines:Damage)**
* 1:8
* 2:16
* 3:30
* 4:50

You may die from your injuries if the injuries you suffered were severe enough and/or you had low health/strength. For example, big dogs and generally big animals are more likely to kill you, though smaller dogs and even smaller animals in general can also very uncommonly do so. You may also die from being attacked with a deadly weapon, such as a Gatling gun or a laser blaster, regardless of your strength but your health is the most dependent.