It is with a heavy heart that I am writing this story. We lost our Yorkipoo Sadie Grace on Jan. 21. She crossed over the Rainbow Bridge and is now reunited with her buddy Odie, and he will hold her close under his angel wings and introduce her to all our other dogs and cats that crossed before her.
Our hearts are heavy as we miss this sweet little girl. Our dear little dog went fast, one hour between the time we left for the vet’s office and the time we got home. It was very sudden and fast; she had complications with her heart. She was only 12 years old. I thought we would have many more years with her, but you just never know. I’m thankful that we did have eight wonderful years with her.
She was a rescue from my dog groomer at the time, and I always said she was an angel from heaven who came down to bless this household. Bless us, she did. She was the sweetest little dog and loved everyone.
When I brought Sadie Grace home she came with a lot of things, homemade food, clothes, toys, dishes, leash, pee pads. She was pee pad trained and was never off a leash. That changed at our house. She learned fast from the other dogs to potty outside and did she ever love being off leash, doing zoomies in her new big yard.
I thought she was going to be my dog, but she attached herself to my husband from the start. Sadie was always looking for him and was where he was. She slept beside him in his chair and on the bed. Sometimes you couldn’t see her if she was snuggled in, she was so little and loved being covered up. She loved me too, but I was second best to my husband.
Sadie’s No. 1 favorite thing was riding, in the pickup or on the lawn tractor. My husband made a seat for the smaller dogs in his truck on the console; he cut rubber mats, glued them together and covered them with a rug, and the dogs had a great seat so they could see out the front window of the truck. Sadie loved riding there. She and Odie shared the seat, and when Odie passed, Ollie came along and they shared it, too.
Sadie also liked getting in my husband’s lap and having the window open and sticking her little head out the window. People would look and smile and laugh at the little face sticking out the window. Sadie loved her all-day wood trips with her dad, cooking hamburgers and hot dogs on the cook stove — and don’t forget the Jack Links jerky.
In the summer after the lawn was mowed, my husband would take her for a ride on the tractor. She would sit on his lap and they would take off down the road, every single time he finished the lawn. Sadie could tell the minute he was done mowing the lawn by the sound of the mower being lifted up. She would start barking and spinning in circles until I picked her up and brought her outside to her dad, and off they would go. She would sit as tall as her little 7-pound body would let her.
It will be hard this mowing season to not see that sweet dog on her tractor.
Sadie loved clothes. She had a whole drawer of sweaters, every color she loved them all. Sometimes when you would go to remove them, she would growl and bite the sweater, she didn’t want you to take it off. Sadie also loved her squeaky toys; she always had small ones I got her, but at times she would take out the bigger ones that were bigger than her.
Sadie Grace was groomed every six weeks; she wasn’t a fan but was always a good girl. She had the hardest part with having her face and her feet done. I called it little dog syndrome, but when we got home my husband would tell her how pretty she was and she looked so good that the little dog would actually prance for him.
I could go on and on about this sweet little dog and what she brought to our life for the eight years we had her. She will be missed beyond measure; she will be in our hearts forever.
Gail Wieder is on the Central Aroostook Humane Society Board of Directors.
