text: Ben couldn’t help laughing. “Yeah, he did do that. He could climb a chain-link fence when he was younger, and slip most any collar I put on him. He’d always come home after a day or so, but I’d hear about him going visiting all the lady dogs. Heck, one time he got all the way across town to that Winters family. They had two German Shepherds, kept them on chains to keep people out of their yard – unfriendly folks. Their male shepherd was supposed to be the biggest, meanest dog in town… But when the female had puppies, there were four little German Shepherds … and one Beagle Shepherd! I swear that big ol’ shepherd dog looked embarrassed.”