190-lb mastiff gets tired from hike and had to be rescued
Floyd was hiking with his human family for hours to the point of exhaustion. He eventually plopped down and wouldn't budget. Rescuers had to come to haul him off the mountain.
When they attempted to go back to where they made a wrong turn so they can get to the right trail, that’s when Floyd plopped down and refused to get up and walk.
Floyd has cuts on his paws but that wasn’t the reason he stopped. He stopped because he was so tired, he couldn’t move another muscle.
Unfortunately, there was no cell service where they were so they couldn’t call for rescue. They also didn’t have any means to carry Floyd back down the trail. With only three adults and a group of small children, it would be impossible to bring Floyd down anyway.
So Floyd’s dad decided to stay put with him while the rest of their group went down the trail to get help.
The temperature was starting to drop and it was going to keep dropping throughout the night. Floyd wasn’t going to be alone when that happened.
This all-volunteer, nonprofit rescue organization didn’t hesitate and went straight up the mountain to rescue Floyd and his dad. When the rescue team found them, Floyd was a good boy.
“He had some cuts on his paws,” Shawn Kenney, the rescue team leader, told InsideEdition.com. “We ended up loading up the dog into our litter. Floyd ended up being a great patient and just staying in the litter and seemed to be very happy and grateful to be carried down.”
They loaded him onto their stretcher and wheeled him down the mountain. Halfway through their journey, one of the wheels broke though and they had to carry him down the rest of the way.
Floyd never put up a fuss though and was quite grateful to be rescued.
“He was just chill,” Kenney said. “He knew he was getting carried out. He just laid there and enjoyed the ride.”
They wrote about what happened on their Facebook page.
“SLCOSAR got a call for a 190-pound, 3-year-old Male injured Mastiff about two miles up the Grandeur Peak Trail. Several hikers had called Unified Police to report that the dog and his owner were on the trail and not able to move. Salt Lake County Search and Rescue members went into action and headed up the trail to make sure Floyd could get off the mountain with his human before it got too cold. Floyd his human and all the team members got off the mountain around 10:30PM.”
Although they hadn’t heard from Floyd’s dad, who didn’t want to be named, since the rescue, a woman named Amy Sandoval wrote a comment on the post. Amy, it turns out, is Floyd’s human auntie.
“This pup is my nephew! I was up on the trail with him and my brother. Some of us eventually had to head down the trail as we had young kids with us. I am SO relieved this turned out and my brother and Floyd got off the mountain. Thank you search and rescue volunteers!!” Amy Sandoval wrote.
