--- title: Dog Becomes Friends With Her Neighbors After Letter Exchange description: A group of young men struck up a beautiful friendship with their neighbor's dog after exchanging letters with the pooch. canonical: https://time.com/5752097/dog-meets-neighbors-over-letter/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-12-18T16:59:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:09.510Z og:title: Dog Becomes Friends With Her Neighbors After Letter Exchange og:description: The start of a beautiful friendship, sealed with a paw print og:url: https://time.com/5752097/dog-meets-neighbors-over-letter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dog Becomes Friends With Her Neighbors After Letter Exchange twitter:description: The start of a beautiful friendship, sealed with a paw print twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # A Sweet Letter Kickstarted a Promising Friendship Between This Dog and Her New Neighbors > Sponsored content. 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In a tweet written by Jack McCrossan, one of the four engineers, the start of this beautiful friendship is revealed in series of letters between the “boys of 23” and Stevie Ticks, the neighbors’ dog and [a very good girl.](https://time.com/5751373/lost-dog-reunited-with-boy-video/) In the initial letter, the boys share that their landlord sadly won’t allow pets, but that they saw the dog and would be happy to help walk or watch over her when needed. Their friendly proposal was met with a letter response of its own, from Stevie Ticks herself. In the letter, which was sealed with a paw print, Stevie “wrote” that she would be happy to hang out with the boys of 23, but their friendship would require throwing balls and scratching her belly. > [](https://twitter.com/jack%5Fmccrossan/status/1204488259491049472) A few days later, the boys and Stevie met in person, much to the delight of everyone involved and the Internet. > [](https://twitter.com/Jack%5FMcCrossan/status/1206225050770247680) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5752097/dog-meets-neighbors-over-letter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5752097/dog-meets-neighbors-over-letter/"},"headline":"A Sweet Letter Kickstarted a Promising Friendship Between This Dog and Her New Neighbors","datePublished":"2019-12-18T16:59:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:09.510Z","description":"A great meet-cute","url":"https://time.com/5752097/dog-meets-neighbors-over-letter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","clickmonsters"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5752097/dog-meets-neighbors-over-letter/","name":"A Sweet Letter Kickstarted a Promising Friendship Between This Dog and Her New Neighbors"}}]}] ```