Two alpacas melt hearts at a nursing home with their sweet, gentle presence. In what would be a shocking scene to most people, the animals visit residents at a nursing home and spread cheer and happiness. Watch the video to see the large creatures strut around the establishment as they make their way to someone else’s room.

Aging is a process shunned and detested by most people. However, despite the general feeling toward getting older, it’s something that no one can stop. Time travel, going either backward or forward, has yet to be invented and perfected. Additionally, no one has discovered a technique for freezing time.

Given that human beings still have no solutions or fixes for controlling and manipulating the passage of time, aging is something that everyone does. That means people will continue to advance in age, including becoming senior citizens.

Sadly, senior citizens, especially those in long-term care facilities, are often lonely, without many people to talk to or interact with. That’s why one nursing home in Ireland devised a unique strategy to tackle this problem. Two alpacas—Paddy and Oscar—meet and greet the residents.

A short clip posted on YouTube shows two large, fluffy, four-legged creatures walking down the hall as if they owned the place, moving along without a care in the world. Imagine walking into a nursing home to see those critters strolling along as you go to visit grandma or grandpa.

But if that wasn’t odd enough, several staff members are spotted in the video. At the most, they turn and glance at the two animals and continue with their day. It’s so weird to see people who work in that facility and then act as if it’s perfectly normal to see a couple of alpacas making their way down the hallway.

Hey, if it works for the staff and residents, who am I to say otherwise?

Genesis 1:21 “And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”