A Tennessee dog spent three days trapped in a cave with a bear.

The Waldens Creek Volunteer Fire Department reports that Charlie, a hunting dog, became stuck about 40 feet down an “extremely narrow” cave shaft in Sevier County.

WCVFD described the rescue, which was a collaborative effort between multiple local groups, in a Facebook post.

According to the article, Charlie spent some of his three days in the cave “unwillingly,” sharing it with a 200-pound bear about two years old.

Tuesday morning, the rescue squad arrived at the site to retrieve the pup from the cave and address the unusual roommate issue. Firefighters Jon Lanier and Tori Downing descended into the cave system to rescue the stranded dog.

During the initial removal effort, Downing rounded a corner and saw the bear asleep barely five feet below her. Charlie found himself further entrenched in the mechanism.

Following this discovery, the duo fled the cave, and members of the rescue team installed cameras to monitor the cave opening, allowing them to know when the bear emerged.

On Wednesday, the crew returned to the spot, but the bear was no longer in the cave.

Lanier, together with firemen Christian Ellard and Andrew Wojturski, entered the now-bear-free cave via a rope system. The group descended and discovered the imprisoned dog, which they subsequently secured to a harness.

The WCVFD post stated that they hauled Charlie to the surface and “quickly reunited him with his happy owner.”

A video of the rescue shows someone off-screen saying, “Come on, big guy, come on, buddy,” as one of the helmet-clad rescuers lifts the black pup out of the cave opening.

“He was dehydrated and hungry, but in otherwise good condition,” the Worcester County Fire Department stated.

The rescue was a collaborative effort by the WCVFD, Sevier County Fire & Rescue, Sevier County Volunteer Rescue Squad, and Catons Chapel-Richardson Cove Volunteer Fire Department.

The department said this was not the team’s first attempt in a rescue post.

The same gang gathered last year to extract another hunting dog, Storm, from a “deep cave” on adjacent English Mountain.