Dogs in Distress: Fire! Danger! [The Movie]
Dogs in distress! Fire! Danger!
There is a story to explain Buddy and Lucky's obvious distress in this video. To wit: Because it was so hot here last week we decided on the spur of the moment to drive to a lodge high in the Sierra's. Convict Lake is at seven or eight thousand feet, a picture perfect lake framed by dramatic granite cliffs. The cabins are a bit funky but mainly quite nice. At four in the morning, the smoke alarm went off and not just beeping: "Fire...Fire" a voice kept repeating after intervals of a high pitch screech. The dogs were panic stricken at this screeching and strange voice warning of fire and danger. Stumbling out of bed from a REM sleep, at first alarmed that maybe there was indeed a fire, then realizing it was a false alarm, I was unable to reach the alarm to quiet it. I dragged a chair from the other room and finally pushed something that turned it off. Back to sleep. Ten minutes later, having fallen back into solid REM asleep, it went off again. Back on the chair and this time I tried to take the battery out but the alarm was hard wired to the electric current of the cabin. Finally managed to pull the socket from the back of the alarm and set the alarm on the kitchen table. Back to sleep. Ten minutes later, the alarm goes off again, powered by its internal back-up battery. I could not remove the internal battery because the device had been sealed, presumably to prevent people from tampering with it. I once again pushed the 'false alarm' button to quiet it and put it into the freezer compartment of the refigerator. Ten minutes later it went off again, and although muted, you could still hear the screech and voice announcing fire and danger. That was the end of the night.
First thing in the morning, with the smoke detector still doing its thing in the freezer, when I opened the door to the cabin the rattled dogs jumped into the car and refused to get back out. This is the portrait of the moment.....
The whole experience reminded me of a previous road trip confrontation with an alarm clock...
www.flickr.com/photos/jessiqua/412949599/
Dogs in Distress: Fire! Danger! [The Movie]
Dogs in distress! Fire! Danger!
There is a story to explain Buddy and Lucky's obvious distress in this video. To wit: Because it was so hot here last week we decided on the spur of the moment to drive to a lodge high in the Sierra's. Convict Lake is at seven or eight thousand feet, a picture perfect lake framed by dramatic granite cliffs. The cabins are a bit funky but mainly quite nice. At four in the morning, the smoke alarm went off and not just beeping: "Fire...Fire" a voice kept repeating after intervals of a high pitch screech. The dogs were panic stricken at this screeching and strange voice warning of fire and danger. Stumbling out of bed from a REM sleep, at first alarmed that maybe there was indeed a fire, then realizing it was a false alarm, I was unable to reach the alarm to quiet it. I dragged a chair from the other room and finally pushed something that turned it off. Back to sleep. Ten minutes later, having fallen back into solid REM asleep, it went off again. Back on the chair and this time I tried to take the battery out but the alarm was hard wired to the electric current of the cabin. Finally managed to pull the socket from the back of the alarm and set the alarm on the kitchen table. Back to sleep. Ten minutes later, the alarm goes off again, powered by its internal back-up battery. I could not remove the internal battery because the device had been sealed, presumably to prevent people from tampering with it. I once again pushed the 'false alarm' button to quiet it and put it into the freezer compartment of the refigerator. Ten minutes later it went off again, and although muted, you could still hear the screech and voice announcing fire and danger. That was the end of the night.
First thing in the morning, with the smoke detector still doing its thing in the freezer, when I opened the door to the cabin the rattled dogs jumped into the car and refused to get back out. This is the portrait of the moment.....
The whole experience reminded me of a previous road trip confrontation with an alarm clock...
www.flickr.com/photos/jessiqua/412949599/