Loose Dogs

When I first arrived at the kennel, Bill told me that maybe 2 or 3 times a year a dog will get loose. A rare occurrence.
Since I have been here (almost 2 months now), five dogs have gotten loose. Luma's chain broke; she didn't even realize it until I came to feed her and nothing was holding her back from jumping on me. We were both surprised by that one. Kobuk's stake came out of the ground. I found him in the upper dog yard socializing with Fury, who he is now staked next to. Colfax is usually attached to a 5 foot pole. Somehow, beyond my understanding, he jumped so high that his chain slipped right off of the top. When I put him back on his pole, I thought to myself, 'there is no way that he can manage to do that again'. Wrong. He did it the next morning where I found him jumping around with Jumper. Chena, the puppies' mom, also broke her chain. I found her at the puppy pen, staring at her kids. Finally, last night, Qjoa (pronounced Jo-a)broke loose. Her chain snapped right down the middle. She only made to Pinks, the next dog over, before I got her.
It has gotten to the point where I can hear a different tone in the barks when a dog is loose. It is not the same bark that announces food is arriving, nor is it the same bark to welcome the moon; it is a frantic, "come visit me!", bark. Thankfully, it has only happened when I am at home and can hear them going crazy.
It can be a serious problem if they are loose for an extended period of time. Bill often says that they'll either fight or mate. The females are more prone to fighting. If something happened a year ago to piss them off, they'll remember it and go after that other dog. However, the males are more interested in love....I always found that funny.
Since I apparently have a curse, I have decided to take a preemptive strike and fix all of the chains tonight. Hopefully that'll help...