Do characters make an automatic Animal Empathy check against hostile animals?
The reason I ask is because it seems to me, from my own experience and having been told the same by others, that many hostile animals simply do not attack characters with a high Animal Emp skill. I can even run through the sewers and not draw attacks of opportunity, yet other characters draw attacks from hordes of rats.
The same happens in the wild as well, and I can commonly walk unstealthed right up to an animal and Dominate it without even a single attack at me. In fact, the only ones that I find this not to be the case are the ones that have a High DC against Domination by Animal Empathy.
Is this intended behaviour or simply a bug?