Please help me with the dogs in the workshop

[thetargos]

First time fighting is hardest. You'll eventually get the hang of it, and enter every room guns blazin'... Err, pickaxe blazin'

Indeed, the trick is to get the hang of it and calculate the distance at which you have to strike the first blow when the dog first jumps on you, once you do that, the other tricky part is to get the hang of the precise moment you have to strike them once again, when they are getting up so you'll knock them down again, and virtually never get hit... But as you may have guessed, it IS tricky. For me the hardest are the freaking spiders. I can fight them, but not without getting stung at least a couple of times per spider, which utterly sucks.