Voluntary work is a good idea. How about dog walking for housebound or infirm owners? Dog walkers always stop to chat to each other, walking is good gentle exercise, so will be good for you - so is tossing the ball. Build up to jogging between walking perhaps, dependent on canines health. A local council dog kennels that take in strays near here is always happy to see volunteer walkers, it stops the doge going stir crazy, and it gives the walkers a chance to assess them, which helps in re-homing - but I think the first would suit you more. You will make two friends - dog and owner will value you highly - you and the owner will have a good mutual interest - and if you take an attractive or sad looking dog down the pub, people will come talk to you both. We had two mastiff pups dumped here - son had never seen so much cleavage - young women everywhere he went were bending down and flashing him, oohing and aaahing.
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