POTSDAM (AP) -- Two starving Labrador retrievers are back home and feasting on yogurt and chicken soup after being rescued from an island in northern New York.
Sean Bercume of Hannawa Falls in St. Lawrence County says his two chocolate labs ran off the evening of Jan. 24, despite the yard's electronic fence and their fully charged shock collars.
The family had nearly lost hope of finding Brodie and Brandie when they got a call from someone who saw the dogs on an island in the Raquette River in Potsdam.
The St. Lawrence County Dive Team used a boat Monday to cross the swift-moving river and a patch of thin ice to reach the dogs and bring them to safety. Bercume and his wife took the dogs to the vet, who pulled 20 porcupine quills out of Brodie's snout. Brodie lost 20 pounds and Brandie lost 15 in the eight-day ordeal.
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