<human>: Can you succinctly summarize the text in 1-3 sentences?

Throw away bc reasons… I recently moved to a new apartment. I love animals if they are nice and well behaved. I have a cat because I am a working professional who does not have that many hours to give to adequately train a dog. I haven't really met my neighbors but one of them has a really nice cat they let out that frequently comes up for pets and he/she has a collar. Another one of my neighbors I met recently and I could tell when she was getting out of her car, her dog was not well behaved and was tugging and pulling himself, almost choking himself to break free and was barking the whole time. I arrived to the same area of where our apartments are located and this dog is barking mad and growling at me and trying his hardest nearly choking himself to break free so I avoid him. I see the friendly cat walk past so I pet the cat. My neighbor tries to tell me that her dog is friendly and nice but he is a rescue. In order to get to my apartment I have to walk near her and her dog and so I carefully walked towards the door when she gave the leash some slack, and the dog was able to get close enough to me and sniffed me and then lunged forward and tried to bite me. Luckily my purse was in the way so he got a mouthful of my bag instead of me. He bit my bag and tugged hard but could not hang on. She then tried to play it off and said I guess he's not that nice, oh well he's nice to kids though. She asked me if I was okay and I was cause the dog only bit my bag but I can't imagine this behavior is ok. Is there anything I can do about it other than avoid her and her dog? Her dog was on a leash but due to the proximity of her being near the entrances of the area of our apartments, I was close enough to get attacked by her dog. Other than making sure she and her dog are completely out of the area before I attempt to walk towards my door what else can I do?
<bot>: neighbor has dog that is mean and bites, dog tried to bite me but luckily bit my bag instead, what do I do if anything?