Three Months Into Retirement He Started Over
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Bob Huff built a career in the nursing home and home healthcare industry. After 3 months of retirement, Bob decided to enter a new line of work… doggy daycare!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.1 | And we continue with our American stories. |
| 0:17.9 | And we've heard from Bob Huff before about how he and his bride grew a nursing home |
| 0:22.4 | and home health care business from six employees to 1,500. And there were some terrific stories along |
| 0:29.0 | the way. Go to our American Stories.com to hear that and so many of the American Dreamers stories |
| 0:34.0 | we tell because it's such a fundamental part of this great country. |
| 0:41.2 | Now we bring you Bob's latest venture from Sarasota, Florida. |
| 0:48.9 | So, Lynn and I sort of retired. |
| 0:53.7 | We were like 65 at that time and had been in a business for over 30 years. And being an entrepreneur and being |
| 0:57.3 | only 65 years of age, I told my wife after about three months, I said, you know what, I want to do |
| 1:04.5 | something else. I'm not done. I didn't know exactly what it was going to be yet. But in the middle of one night, and I was very guilty of waking up with ideas, keeping a legal pad beside me, |
| 1:17.6 | I woke up about 3 o'clock in the morning, and I thought dogs, I was thinking about Brownie, who was a dog that I had gotten for my son after he graduated |
| 1:31.3 | from college because he was lonely, he was looking for love in the wrong places, and he needed |
| 1:37.1 | a dog. |
| 1:38.5 | So I got Brownie for him. |
| 1:40.0 | When I woke up one morning, I'd written down everything that I was thinking about. |
| 1:48.0 | Yes, pet resorts, pet resorts, dogs, that's what I need to go into. |
| 1:53.0 | So at that time, I decided, well, I'm going to start looking and researching this right now. |
| 1:59.0 | So that's exactly what I did. First I thought, well, |
| 2:01.6 | where do you begin? And then I thought, well, I need to begin looking for software. So I research |
| 2:06.9 | software and found a company that I called. And the gentleman I talked to was very helpful. And he's, |
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