Sunday, July 13, 2025

Return Of The Chirping Monster

It has been a number of yeas, since the smoke detector's low battery alarm, had bothered Rowdy. I had a hard wired detector, that had a battery backup, and it started occasionally loosing connection to the battery, when it got cold in the house. I would have to remove and reinstall the battery to get it to stop. The situation progressively got worse, until I finally had to replace the entire detector.

Lately, when the low battery alarm would chirp, it started causing him distress again and he will run to me for comfort. The noise used to bother him in the past, and after he lost some of his hearing, I didn't think he could hear it any more. I thought he became tone deaf to that frequency, but apparently he can still hear it.