Been fighting ants, foxes, bats. I noticed that I now have a cooldown when I start a fight with them. When I first saw this I thought to myself that this was probably to stop bots that attack on their first move or something similar to this. But animals do not share the cooldown with me. They attack me before I can even put up any defenses even if I was the one that initiated the fight.
The way I have been fighting them ever since I got this cooldown thing has been to initiate a fight with them form a distance, and while they travel to me I wait for the first cooldown to finish before I can even use my defenses.
I suggest you place a cooldown on the animals too, it does not seem fair to have animals always get a free hit on me just because I was on cooldown even tho I was the one that initiated the fight.