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Little Mo sits in her wagon during a game last fall. (The Sentinel file photo)
For the third time in three years, a Big Spring High School bulldog mascot has died.
Head football mascot Little Mo died from cancer Monday at her veterinarian’s office. Her owners, Bill and Diane Biega of Plainfield, adopted her in December 2003 from the Humane Society’s West Shore shelter.
Little Mo hadn’t been well for a couple of months.
“She was so stoic through the whole thing,” Diane Biega says. “She would do silent tears. She never once let on how bad she was.”
The English bulldog was eight and a half years old and had prowled the sidelines in a red wagon at all home football games.
“She loved to go but by the end of the first quarter, she was always asleep in her wagon,” Diane Biega says.
Little Mo would sleep through the rest of the game, no matter how loud it was.
“She never woke up until we put her back in the car,” Biega says. “She was a character. Above all, she was just a sweet personality. We’re really going to miss her.”
Little Mo had a lot of fans at Big Spring.
“The kids loved her,” Biega says.
Spirit, a seven-year-old rescue bulldog the Biegas adopted in April 2005, will continue her mascot duties on the sidelines in the fall.
“She moves up from co-mascot,” Biega says. “We’re going to carry on the tradition.”
Princess Phoebe, the Biegas’ original bulldog mascot, died in September 2003. Phoebe’s son and co-mascot, Will-E-Bite, died in November 2004.
