Westbrook neighborhood's wandering cat Simba, a high school regular, dies at 21

[jpak]

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/07/03/westbrook-neighborhoods-wandering-cat-simba-a-high-school-regular-dies-at-21/

Eileen Shutts had cellphone numbers for the custodians at Westbrook High School, and they all had hers. If her orange cat had not returned from his daily wanderings in the halls of the high school by dinnertime, she would text the crew to send Simba home to her house on nearby Monroe Avenue.

Simba, a beloved figure at Westbrook High School, died Wednesday. “If I couldn’t find him nearby, I would head to the school and nine times out of 10, he would be there,” said Eileen Shutts, his owner. Photo courtesy of Westbrook High School Facebook page

Simba was a beloved figure at the high school and in the surrounding neighborhood for years, once the subject of a school art show and internet fame, always a furry friend to students in need. He died Wednesday at what Shutts estimated to be age 21.

“I’m glad he was my cat, but he was everybody’s cat,” Shutts said.

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RIP Sweet Kitty Boy

[crazycatlady]

1. RIP sweet Kitty

[Fla Dem]

2. Simba, 9 lives well lived. RIP sweetie. nt