My local furry community is 100 miles away. I used to participate despite that, making the three hour drive for their monthly meetups. But the drama got to be too much for me. It stopped being fun when I had to spend a lot of time keeping track of who the leadership was this month, and when every fursuit walk was delayed by up to an hour because one person was incapable of even starting to get ready until 5 seconds before it was due to start - and then there'd be multiple delays during the walk because he'd fucking run into traffic and the spotters and handlers would spend more time making sure he didn't kill himself than looking after the rest of the group.