A group of men from Michigan have returned from a bachelor party in Tennessee with a stray dog and her litter of puppies in tow.
Groom-to-be Mitchel Craddock and his friends were on a five-day trip at a cabin in the woods when a stray dog approached their front door, MLive reported. The dog, they named Annie, wolfed down food and water the men gave her.
“We were cooking bacon with the door open. The next thing you know, there’s this dog sitting right at the front door. She wouldn’t come inside, but she sat right there,” said Craddock.
Eventually the men noticed that Annie was producing milk, Craddock said. They found her seven puppies in a den down the road from the cabin.
The puppies appeared to be 5- to 6-weeks old and were very healthy, Craddock said.
“Once we got the puppies out of the hole, we knew we couldn’t just leave them, so we started figuring out where they would go,” he said.
Craddock, who already owned a chocolate Labrador retriever, said he didn’t intend to keep any of the puppies for his new household. However, his bride-to-be insisted they keep one.
Each of the men took one of the puppies, whom they named Brimmie, Rosie, Daisy, Knox, Gunner, Bear and Finn. Craddock’s grandparents took the mother as well as a puppy.
In this Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 photo, Annie and Doug Craddock pose for a photo in Vicksburg, Mich. It all started the morning of Craddock’s 5-day bachelor getaway, a four-wheeling trip to Tennessee arranged by the Best Man in Mitchel Craddock’s Oct. 8 wedding. Friends of Craddock, the bridegroom-to-be, each came home from his bash with a puppy. (Bryan Bennett/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP)
In this Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 photo, Mitchel Craddock and Brimmie pose for a photo in Vicksburg, Mich. It all started the morning of Craddock’s 5-day bachelor getaway, a four-wheeling trip to Tennessee arranged by the Best Man in Craddock’s Oct. 8 wedding. Friends of Craddock, the bridegroom-to-be, each came home from his bash with a puppy. (Bryan Bennett/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP)
In this Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 photo, Alex Manchester and Rosie pose for a photo in Vicksburg, Mich. It all started the morning of Mitchel Craddock’s 5-day bachelor getaway, a four-wheeling trip to Tennessee arranged by the Best Man in Craddock’s Oct. 8 wedding. Friends of Craddock, the bridegroom-to-be, each came home from his bash with a puppy. (Bryan Bennett/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP)
In this Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 photo, Brent Witters holding Finn pose for a photo in Vicksburg, Mich. It all started the morning of Craddock’s 5-day bachelor getaway, a four-wheeling trip to Tennessee arranged by the Best Man in Mitchel Craddock’s Oct. 8 wedding. Friends of Craddock, the bridegroom-to-be, each came home from his bash with a puppy. (Bryan Bennett/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP)
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What a wonderful story – all saved and obviously all wanted and will be loved.
Congrats to the bride and groom..
Annie is a Boxer…..I have rescued several dogs and have 2 pit bull cross puppies right now that were a bag of bones. I found them thrown out on the side of the road. I do not understand how anyone can just throw them away. I wormed them the next day and it was amazing how much weight they gained just in one week feeding them 2 times a day. One had the mange and am still fighting it but she has improved tremendously…
I had a Pit Bull that a man was kicking and beating with a stick I went out and told him to stop hitting that puppy. He got mad at me and threw the dog at me. He said I want him to fight other dogs. I said to him that is cruel. Fight me. he raised up the stick and I raised up my crutch and I said I will kill you hands down. he ran away. That Pitt Bull was a little dog and I took him to our vet and he had major injuries. he was 8 months old. When I got him home he sat at my feet and I picked him up and he climbed up on my shoulder and put his head down and his broken legs in back of me and went to sleep. He got well and when he did he brought in the mail and newspaper. he died 9 years later of his injuries. Now we have a girl Pitt Bull and she was beaten and has a broken tail and missing teeth but she is afraid of my wheelchair and so she is my husband dog. I have a cat that sleeps on my lap all day and on my bed at night with the dog.
Thank you, guys, for your compassionate hearts!