Dream of hands

I was standing in a field near a bridge by my house. To my left was a small black dog that grew bigger when I looked away. When it got bigger, it became a pit bull and I was fearful of it. I had a baseball bat in my hands and I was swinging the bat at the dog. I had a smaller dog to my right. I kept swinging the bat at the black dog and trying to scare it away, but it didn't work. The black dog was not threatening to me and was quiet and submissive. The black dog looked scared of me.