If you think of your puppy as a gentle dog surely it may never attack. Preventing a dog attack can also have to do with the cute puppy feelings. When you look at any dog in a gentle way. Not paying too much attention to it. Instead using your gentle side to greet and be around it. When a puppy gets excited we praise it we love it. It is so much easier to maintain these feelings around a small dog. In this case a puppy being controlled by your non-dominant behavior. No one is scared of a puppy and they shouldn't be. The feeling a puppy exhibits is small in terms of fear. They are too small to be dangerous to us. Now me must look at all dogs like that no matter how old. It still is your puppy and it needs to be treated somewhat like a puppy. The only difference here is that when it is older the puppy behavior needs to go away. Urinating in your house or chewing excessively should be gone. The feeling you have, the love for a small puppy needs to stay the same. With any type of dog even when it is older.