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Typical everyday 'video-gaming' kid makes elderly dogs' (and their owners') lives better

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High school student Alex started a nonprofit to help senior dogs and their owners get their "best days ever" Alex , a self-described video game-playing, Philadelphia Eagles -loving sophomore in high school, wanted to give back.

He saw a video online of a soldier returning home from Afghanistan to his joyful elderly canine, who had been diagnosed with cancer.

Alex: "I felt like there wasn't enough out there for older dogs".