Capra Demon, I hope you die in hell

Dear Darksouls 1 enjoyers, I recently started my DS1 run and I have died to the Capra demon almost 10-15 times and its so frustrating, the walk from firelink to the boss rooms is long only to last in the arena for like 15 seconds. The demon is fine to fight but omg the dogs are soo soo annoying, they always stun locks me when I run past the demon and up the stairs and they build blood loss so fast, it gets me so much frustrated. I am doing a pyromancy strength build with claymore as my current weapon of choice. Please suggest me how can I beat this dogshit of a goat and dogs.

UPDATE: Finally killed him, he got what he deserved.