Do all black Labs look alike?

Of course not.

Do some black Labs look alike? Well, maybe so.

A man in Oregon says the dog he picked up from the kennel where he had left it over spring break is apparently not the dog he dropped off.

Ken Griggs is fairly certain he was given the wrong dog, and his veterinarian agrees, but the owner of the kennel in Dundee says the eight black Labs lodging there during that period were all returned to their rightful owners, and that Griggs is mistaken.

Griggs said he immediately noticed differences in the dog he picked up from the kennel. The family cat, who was normally friends with his dog Callie, hissed at the dog he brought home. The dog, unlike Callie, wouldn't heel.

Griggs, according to an Associated Press story (read it here) returned the dog to the kennel whose owner checked with the owners of all the other black Labs, all of whom said they believed they had the right dog, but all of whom agreed to come in with their dogs to clear up the matter.

When Griggs and his children arrived, one of the Labs got excited and jumped in their car, and they took it home -- only to realize it was the same one he left with the first time, and not Callie, at least according to Griggs and his vet.

Callie's vet, upon inspecting the dog, said it showed no sign of having surgery to her left elbow, as Callie had, and no steel sutures from being spayed, which Callie was. The dog also weighed less than Callie. Griggs has hired a lawyer.