Don't have dog training friends
I like being in the dog training spaces and love seeing people go to training meet ups. Im feeling left out however, because no one wants to meet up with someone with a reactive dog. Which I understand but its really isolating. We used to have training friends but we dont really talk anymore and our other friend moved. With just a day of working with my dog he can acclimate to being comfortable with a new dog. He used to have excitement reacitvity but after a couple of attacks its turned into fear reactivity. Ive gotten him used to multiple other dogs and just really want that again. We used to do training outings with our friends weekly, trips out to places like Lowe's, petfriendly stores downtown, pack walks with like 7 dogs, play dates in their yard with 8 dogs when someone else they knew got a little husky puppy and quickly got my dog used to it to. etc....
Hanging out with my dog is what I want to do in my free time. Making friends that arent involved with dog training even just isnt working out because thats my main interest and has been for years :(