Pets can change people’s lives at any age.

It describes how the three animalsSmokey, Oreo, and Jenniferhelped cure his loneliness and isolation from living alone.

After his death, I was left alone in my home.

Elderly Man Watches Dogs and Sends Letter to Neighbor

I don’t have wife or kids.

His age and lack of social contact were affecting his mental health, too.

However, when the pets were introduced to his life, he felt his entire routine shift.

Man and Dog in Park

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individuals, he adds.

They gave me the motivation to restart my life again.

I started waking up early in the mornings.

Elderly Man Watches Dogs and Sends Letter to Neighbor

I began to take walks outside with your pets for the first time in years.

I now take regular walks to the park with them and talk with friends I made there.

A Redditor received a letter from an elderly neighbor named Robert who watched their pets.

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The man said watching the two dogs and cat helped cure his loneliness.

Robert had been living alone for years with no family.

After watching his neighbor’s dogs, he said he adopted two dogs of his own.