Fee Waybill (Feebo) and Weasel. February 1992.

Fee (foreground) wandered into our yard as an older pup. I guessed him about 7 mos old at the time. Weasel, about 5 years old here, had been given to me a few months earlier. I had not planned on getting into raising and running sled dogs, but she was a trained leader. Weasel and Fee mated a few months later and we had our first litter of pups in May 1992. So this was really the beginning of BeingThere Kennel.

Kodachrome transparencies, Minolta SRT camera.

Their Albums (sets) can be seen to the right. Since Flickr won't allow me to post links here.

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Fee was a stray. He wandered into our yard as about a 4 month old pup one summer day in 1991. I had always figured someone dumped him because we did everything we could to find his people. But maybe I hoped we wouldn’t find them because when Lenore came home from work that day I greeted her with Fee (although he was unnamed) bundled up in my arms and I said, “look what came today, a little package,” then I paused…. “can we keep him?” From the beginning then he had the nickname “Little Package” and he kept it his entire life. We named him Fee Waybill, after the lead singer of the band “The Tubes.” He could sing, was a total showman, and a real character.

He was a fantastic dog, full of sass and personality. He liked Weasel and he was a pretty good puller. So now we had a very unlikely four-dog team.

On October 12, 2007 at nearly 17 years of age Fee walked away and we never saw him or any trace of him again. Although I looked and looked. I have not suffered from a lack of closure, his departure as much a mystery as his arrival and there are some things I don't need to, or perhaps am not meant to know.

There are a few more pics and words about him in his set.

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What's so hard about raising puppies?

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One year ago today (Oct. 12, 2007) Fee walked away and I never saw him again. He was nearly 17 years old.

It was a day very much like today with new fallen snow. I tracked him out of the yard and then his tracks just seemed to disappear, as if he walked up into the sky.

He was quite a dog. He arrived in our yard in a similar mysterious manner 17 years earlier. He just showed up and pretty much adopted us.

Old Fee, Fee Waybill, Mr. Fee, Feebo, The Little Package, Grumpa. A really good old boy, quite a character, sorely missed.

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My old boy Fee-bo, by Miriam Cooper

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