After reading all these posts, Smohr you did the right thing. I personally think it would have been a bad choice to give Petra to that guy. It sounds like he needs a gun, not a dog. If he's in that much danger with shady folks, no dog in the world will completely protect him. He needs to move away from where he is and start over. I feel for him because he was injured in the line of duty, but that is his fate and he needs to deal with it. I'm very sorry you had to say goodbye to Petra, but you will always have the memories of her love, which nobody else may ever have known. It may have been a much sadder ending had you made a different choice.... Good luck and think happy thoughts.