Best Friends is a weekly feature designed to highlight a local resident and his or her pets. To suggest
someone for the series, contact Marissa Weiher, photographer, at photo@themonroetimes.com.
Diane Kappe, a baker at Kwik Trip, talks about her best friend Sadie Bear, a 3-year-old yellow Labrador.
Heartbroken after she lost her husband Gary and her German shorthair Hans around the same time, Kappe was convinced she didn't want anyone else in her life - until her son brought her to look at puppies in Darlington and she held Sadie for the first time.
"I asked her, 'Are you my Sadie girl?' and the breeder gave me a strange look and said that was her grandmother's name," Kappe said. "That's when I knew she was the one."
- Marissa Weiher
Heartbroken after she lost her husband Gary and her German shorthair Hans around the same time, Kappe was convinced she didn't want anyone else in her life - until her son brought her to look at puppies in Darlington and she held Sadie for the first time.
"I asked her, 'Are you my Sadie girl?' and the breeder gave me a strange look and said that was her grandmother's name," Kappe said. "That's when I knew she was the one."
- Marissa Weiher
Describe Sadie's personality.
She won't come upstairs into the house. Isn't that strange? I've had her since she was eight weeks old, nothing traumatic has happened to her. She'll go wherever you want her to - but not up those stairs. I tell people she can come up the stairs if she wanted to. She'll go up the stairs to the garage in about two seconds ready to jump in the truck. She's a wacky girl. She's nuts. She's my baby.
She's bubbly. She loves everybody. She's a real killer. She'll knock you down and kiss you to death.
What do you and Sadie like to do together?
Always the truck rides. She rides in the truck with me three times a day. Our first ride is at 2 a.m. before I go to work. She's got her own blankie in the front seat. Spoiled? Nah.
We walk about three to five miles a day in good weather.
She's got the whole basement, a couch, a recliner, her own TV - poor baby. I even put Animal Planet on for her. If I'm mad at her I'll joke with her and say: "Just think about what your seven brothers and sisters are doing right now in their doghouses in the cold under the stars."
What has it been like having Sadie in your life?
Oh God. Have you ever had a dog sit on your lap and rocked her to sleep? She loves to be rocked in a rocking chair, all 104 pounds of her. I sit down and she's in my lap. Poor baby.
I don't know what I'd do without her. She's my crazy lady.
She won't come upstairs into the house. Isn't that strange? I've had her since she was eight weeks old, nothing traumatic has happened to her. She'll go wherever you want her to - but not up those stairs. I tell people she can come up the stairs if she wanted to. She'll go up the stairs to the garage in about two seconds ready to jump in the truck. She's a wacky girl. She's nuts. She's my baby.
She's bubbly. She loves everybody. She's a real killer. She'll knock you down and kiss you to death.
What do you and Sadie like to do together?
Always the truck rides. She rides in the truck with me three times a day. Our first ride is at 2 a.m. before I go to work. She's got her own blankie in the front seat. Spoiled? Nah.
We walk about three to five miles a day in good weather.
She's got the whole basement, a couch, a recliner, her own TV - poor baby. I even put Animal Planet on for her. If I'm mad at her I'll joke with her and say: "Just think about what your seven brothers and sisters are doing right now in their doghouses in the cold under the stars."
What has it been like having Sadie in your life?
Oh God. Have you ever had a dog sit on your lap and rocked her to sleep? She loves to be rocked in a rocking chair, all 104 pounds of her. I sit down and she's in my lap. Poor baby.
I don't know what I'd do without her. She's my crazy lady.