Oh, yeah, labs are a breed apart, all right.

I have a few suggestions:

1. Buy a box of dog biscuits.
2. If lab shows up again, use biscuits as needed to get dog to come to you.
(this should not take very long).
3. Secure dog with remaining chain while you call Animal Control (do not
feel guilty, you are not the inhumane person who chained up the dog in the
first place).

Note: I have 2 lab "mixes" myself, one is half Chessie, one is half Cocker
Spaniel. They are not actually the big problem in my teeny water garden --
we leave that to the half lab, half Irish Setter across the street! (I
swear I don't know how that dog manages to fit into the water garden in the
first place, but he belongs to the kid who watches over my water garden when
we travel, so.........)

Anne Lurie
Raleigh, NC

"aktgibbs" wrote in message
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Large labrador retrievers are capable of traveling at least a half mile
while dragging a ten foot long piece of chain.. If there is a pond to be
found. the dog will find it and jump in.. The mess he makes getting out
of the pond takes a half day to clean up.
.

Just because you followed the dripping, slime and moss covered dog to the
neighbor's house and saw the neighbor open the door and let the dog in,
this does not mean the neighbor owns or even recognizes the dog. The
broken chain attached to the stake in their front yard, the trail of
water and fairy moss leading directly to the neighbor's garage door, and
those shrieks of "Get that dog out of here" coming from inside the
neighbor's house are all simply inexplicable coincidences..

Fairy moss and slime should add a nice outdoorsy touch to living room
carpet and furniture, hmmm? I can only hope.....