Bothered by the whistling of workers first settling the city of Seattle, the creature was unable to sleep and became irritable, eventually moving to Mount Rainier to escape the noise.

The Wheedle slept there peacefully for many years, his red nose blinking, until the region's growth brought people – and their whistling – to his doorstep once again.

Rainier, returned to Seattle, climbed atop the Space Needle, and threw them into the sky to make it rain.

In appreciation, the Wheedle gathered up all the clouds, put them back in his bag, and fell fast asleep – and once again, his big red nose began to blink.

The cookbook for kids features a pictorial; essay of the Wheedle demonstrating how to cook a "bunch of stuff" and to appreciate what their mothers do in the kitchen.

Toying with Brent Musberger on the sidelines, as well as in celebration with Georgetown's Patrick Ewing, it was a memorable highlight in the Wheedle's career.

In 1993 the Wheedle became the mascot for KOMO-TV, Seattle's ABC affiliate, and appeared at many events wearing a KOMO hat and T-shirt.

For several years, the Wheedle could be seen encased in a block of plastic "ice," in a small SuperSonics museum near the Sonics & Storm Team Shop at Seattle's KeyArena.

[6] In 1974 the Seattle band Annakonda (originally from Spokane) recorded a funky instrumental track called "Wheedle's Groove."

In 2004 the song was part of a compilation CD entitled "Wheedle's Groove: Seattle's Finest in Funk and Soul - 1965-75," on Seattle-based Light in the Attic Records.