I first met Scout about a year ago in The Round Table office. Since then, we’ve crossed paths only a couple times, but they have certainly been memorable.
From a sprawled position Scout measures an astounding 4.4 ft. According to Jazmin Gomez’27, “He looks like he would be a really small dog and then they just enlarged him.” He has many classic dog features: a nose, eyes, and even paws. “He looks like a dog, but he is unique but his brown spots are very light, almost like a blond,” said Gomez. He is often lying down, but when the possibility of pets presents itself, he raises his head, mouth slightly open. His short downy fur is surprisingly soft, especially on his brown ears.
Once you start petting him, it’s hard to stop. “He’s very needy,” said his owner, Vivian Kopka’27. “He’s kind of the textbook definition of anxious attachment when you’re with him but he’s fine when you leave him alone.“ But being pet isn’t the only thing Scout loves. When asked about his ideal day, Kopka said, “It would be a Saturday, he would like to wake up and it’s a cool day, not too sunny, in the summer. He’d go to the farmers’ market, and after the farmers’ market he’d go to his friend Coconut’s house and eat a lot of pig ears. And it would wrap up at night with my parents on the couch and my dad would throw popcorn at him to catch.” As Kopka talked, Scout stood next to me, pawing my hand as I tried to type, excited at all his favorite words being spoken.
He first joined the Kopka family as a foster dog in 2023. Initially they had not planned to adopt, but wanted to help shelter dogs regulate their nervous systems. “But when we got Scout, we fell in love with him and had to snag him right up and adopt him,” Kopka said. She added that, if Scout could describe his own life in one word, it would be “having fun.”
Scout’s magnetic personality and wise demeanor will take him far. Anyone lucky enough to cross his path will undoubtedly come away a better person.
Featured image: Vivian Kopka’27
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