Scout's Story

Scout: June 4 2004 - October 18 2021

I loved (and still love) my black cat Scout who is now up in heaven. She was beautiful and calm. Before I was alive in 2004 we got Scout. I wasn't alive yet but I was born soon. From those early years I loved Scout and our other cat who sadly ran away. Scout helped me get through it though.

I remember once I had a hard day and I told her about it. She couldn't talk but it felt like she understood. My family all loved her dearly but my sister was especially close to her. She would hold Scout and pet her. I always was too scared to hold her but I would pet her. Once I brought a hoagie from a restaurant to school for lunch and Scout ate a piece off it. I didn't throw it away but I cut off the piece she bit and gave it to her (it was a colossal sandwich). She seemed like she would live a long time. Later in her life she had a habit of going through the trash can but nobody was insulted by it. We all thought it was funny.

Earlier this year (June 4, 2021) she turned 17. In July she even got Instagram! Then October came. We were having a great weekend when we came home from an outing with our uncle that Sunday to find out Scout was sick. We weren't too concerned because every person and animal gets sick sometimes. She seemed unusually tired and laid by her food bowl. I didn't pet her because I was worried she'd get angry and attack me (looking back at it that was really stupid because she wasn't the kind of cat who attacked people). I thought that she'd recover the next day.

I woke up because we had to go to school that morning and my sister told me that Scout was making weird noises. I was half awake so I just said "Oh wow." It was a sunny morning, and warm for October. I got dressed,and went downstairs. It was around 7:08. I went downstairs and saw my parents and sister hunched around the cat's food and water. I heard crying. I knew what happened without asking. Anyway that whole day at school was terrible. I remember wanting to cry so many times but I didn't. I should've pet her one last time while she was alive.

It was hard watching the news being broken to my little brothers. They cried a lot. I felt so bad. That night we buried her. It was exactly two months ago this happened. We got 3 new cats and I love them but today I'm thinking of Scout a lot. Scout, I love and miss you.