I am soooo very very sorry to hear about Chester. When (I SAID WHEN) you get him back, and anyone else who is worried about the same thing happening - you might want to do what we did with our fence. It's not the prettiest, but it's pretty secure.
We had a Jack Russell who was a DIGGER - big time - he dug out several times. We got some very inexpensive chicken wire (wire with little stop sign-looking holes in it) about 4 or 5 foot high and 50 foot long and we cut it in half, lengthwise, so it was about 2 or 2 1/2 foot high and we then had 100 feet of it (I think it cost about $13.00 for that 100 feet). Then we placed 1/2 of it flat on the ground in front of the fence and made a 90 degree turn and placed the other 1/2 of it up the fence and we did that for 100 feet around the fence. We actually had to use 3 rolls before we got all the fence covered. We used tent stakes to stake it to the ground in front of the fence and we nailed it to the wood fence and wired it to the chain link fence (we have both in our yard). This creates a barrier that they can't dig under - at least the Jack Russell didn't even attempt after the first time or two - because when they try to dig at the fence, they are digging on the wire - so he stopped. The part that is not real attractive is that the grass grows up between the fence and the wire (it's only about a foot up on the fence) and you can't weedeat it all away. Eventually you can't see the wire on the ground, the grass grows up through it. But you can see the grass behind the wire on the fence - but we didn't care - we were only concerned with keeping our Jack in the yard, which it did. We no longer have the Jack, but now I don't worry about Rowdy digging out.
Again Kim, I am soo very sorry to hear about Chester. I just know you will get him back.
