Everyone expects a bachelor party to involve some sort of surprise. I mean, that is the very nature of most of those events.
So when Mitch White and his group of friends decided to spend White’s bachelor party canoeing on the Minnesota River, they expected rapid waters and maybe a chance or two of tipping over into the river.
They never, however, expected they’d stumble upon a head in the mud.
But that’s exactly what they found after White’s nephew heard a barking from behind him, as he paddled ahead of White.
“We had been on the river for … a full day and night, and hadn’t seen anyone else,” White wrote on Facebook. “My [n]ephew … heard a dog barking behind him and turned the canoe around to see what was going on …”
Poor Ed stuck in the mud. Photo by the Carver County Sheriff’s Dept.
And there, on the muddy banks of the river, was a head poking out of the mud. It belonged to an elderly St. Bernard who had somehow gotten himself stuck with no way of escape.
When we got to shore, [we saw he] was buried up to his neck in the thickest of mud,” White wrote.
He told reporters, while laughing, that the men “…were trying to figure out what to do, like what do we do? And I was like, ‘My fiancée, Kelly, probably won’t marry me if we don’t get this dog out of here!'”
The bachelor party. Photo from Mitch White/Facebook
Cox was similarly thrilled that this unique rescue had come to such a joyful conclusion and that Ed would finally be home safe.
I was happy to see them reunited,” Cox said. “[Ed] looked a lot better the next day, after having had a bath.”
George Niskanen, Ed’s owner, said the dog had been missing for just a day.
Ed gets pet after being rescued. Photo by Carver County Sheriff’s Dept.
“He likes to roam from time to time,” Niskanen said. “He usually comes back.”
After getting a call from the sheriff’s department, Niskanen said he rushed down to get his dog.
“He was in a heck of a predicament down there,” Niskanen said. “We got him up the hill and now he’s brought back to strength, thanks to the Carver County Sheriff’s Department and the Carver Fire Department as well.”
He believes the people from the bachelor party are heroes, too. “I’d like to know their names so I could send a card of thanks,” Niskanen said.
As for Ed, the senior dog is slowly gaining his strength back and eating and drinking just fine.
Watch below for a look at the way this bachelor party took a crazy turn!
