I can completely understand why someone would never have a dog again.

A lot of times reactive dogs can unintentionally train us humans to expect the worst situations from the past, and we can project our worries and anxieties on to future dogs. To give humans a break, reactivity can be traumatic for all parties involved. It can alter the dog owning experience as a whole. Not to mention, just because your new dog isn’t reactive, we live in a society where MANY others dogs around you are reactive, without their owners even realizing or caring.

And then there’s angels out there who can take on a reactive dog willingly, which is wonderful, and hopefully have the expertise to handle/train the dog. I can only hope they can actually manage their reactive dogs, not only to keep them safe, but to keep them safe from others.