I'm fine with a cane.

Too expensive, too high maintenance, too needy. The cane never has vet emergencies, or needs feeding, or needs to be cleaned up after. Nor does it shed lol.

I can't get one in my country. But even if I could I wouldn't. I really don't have the patient and time for a high-maintenance pet like a dog. The white cane is good enough for me.

I find I have a harder time finding where to go to get somewhere than locating any obstacles, in my way. The cane works for that. I do have a little sight too. A If a guide dog could point out specific buildings and locations I might consider it, but otherwise I don't know how useful one would be. My hobbies, interests and employment are also not active enough for me to feel good about getting a dog, especially now that I'm in an office. Poor thing would just end up lying around a lot.

Very limited mobility. Wouldn't be fair on the dog for the small amount I can walk.

I have a guide dog now, but in the years before getting my guide, I didn’t take the plunge because it wasn’t the right time in my life. I didn’t have a stable living situation, and health issues were getting in the way of having a routine, predictable life. As those improved, I minimized my need by thinking “I’m not blind enough”. I finally figured the worst thing that could happen was being told no or being recommended to apply in the future.

I'm partially sighted, but have looked into getting a PTSD service dog.

1. If I'm wake up in the middle of the night, I'm up Insomnia Creek without a paddle. If I had a fenced in yard or something, maybe a doggie door would be an option for bathroom trips. No such luck, though.

2. Just like any other dog training, the dozens of commands that service dogs learn have to be reinforced regularly or they start forgetting them. I don't know if I'm up to that.

3. Service dogs are magnets for questions and hassles from strangers. (Possibly less so for seeing eye dogs since they're more widely recognized. I don't know.) Given my social phobia, that sounds like a step in the wrong direction.

Lots of people have service dogs of all kinds and love them. I adore dogs but I know my limits and wouldn't want to drag one into a less-than-ideal situation. If a guide dog does end up being right for you, I think they're a wonderful addition to everyday life.

Dogs require a schedule. You need to get up at a certain time to take them out, to feed them, etc. I travel to a lot of unique places, and I find a cane with GPS is a better way to explore. Sighted people often focus on your dog and not you. Etc. Etc.

My dad has a dog and loves it, I'd say it's just as much emotional support to him as it is helping him get around...a big negative is everywhere we go in public EVERYONE is looking at us, trying to pet the dog, or commenting on the dog both negatively and positively....and it gets old fast. Very few people in public have the knowledge and respect just to leave the service dog and owner alone unless they clearly need assistance.

Cane works perfectly. More of a cat person anyway.

I don't really like dogs, I find them a bit threatening, and I don't want to deal with being a dog owner. I love to travel and that's just miserable with a dog. They smell and leave hairs all over everything that I can't see to clean up. You have to walk them and feed them horrible smelling food, and clean up their crap. When I'm working normally I do long days locked up in a small room with a few other people and it would be unfair on the dog to make it just sit in the corner hour after hour, and I'd be worried having it around other people because at the end of the day it's still a dog and it has teeth. They lick your face and it's gross.

I am not a dog person.

I'm visually impaired/low vision so don't need one - a cane in certain situations works for me.

I want to eventually get a guide dog, but I haven’t for a few reasons. First, I knew that my medical issues were previously too unpredictable for any school to approve me. Second, I need to have some refresher O&M classes. Third, it is difficult to plan guide dog training around college. Third, COVID-19 happened, and it isn’t safe for me to travel do to health issues.

I already have two cats. Also, I live in the middle of nowhere, with no sidewalks and no public transportation, so I wouldn't actually be able to use my guide dog. Also, I think a dog would probably guide me around landmarks, and usually I would go by landmarks to determine where I am.

- How such dog would react to epileptic seizures, can person with other diseases still have one? I'm worried it would get kind of mental trauma or burn out faster.
- Price: 25.000-30.000 and those schooled in my country according to owners aren't so great trained often they import from other countries privately certified guide dogs after first one. As a blind disabled person I'm not allowed to have more than 15.000 money as single person it will be taken away.
- For now i love to travel and for dog it would be unpleasant for sure especially by plane. I like beach and sun but dogs are not fan of laying there and swimming. I like long walks along the beach too and exploring but how dog would cope with me taking lots of pictures, hot temperature etc
- Fear of flea and other critters - they like spiders!
- how i would manage health of the dog? Poor thing can't speak, uses lots of body language and i can't see well enough. I would miss bleeding from paw or bowel...
Trimming nails i don't want hurt him
- after few years of faithful service i would have to give him back... I would be binded emotionally i wouldn't be able to keep him
- For now i don't live at my own, not enough space.

There's no "try before you buy" option

Yet i see the advantages, i meet some nice guide dogs and their owners. When dogs were having break from work they still tried to help including me, one always guided me to my sitting place even when I was later on wheelchair for few months.
Other one recently retired guide dog few times followed me till his owner didn't called him, he signaled me half opened doors, stairs, low hanging big objects and protected from bumping into fast moving people who didn't watched out at all it was really crowdy music festival he even sometimes laid next to my feet, owner said he's stressed because he's retiring and new dog is taking his job so he often chooses to help people especially newly blind or low vision (he could tell who is new because how they used white cane and body language, stress level when walking alone?).