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I didnt go to bed until 2 or so, had a hard time going to sleep so it was around 3 or so when I did. 4 am I wake up from the alarm screaming its head off, my first thought was ohhhhh noooo it cant be 6 already. Then I realized that is was not my alarm clock, so it took me a couple of secs to figure out if it was the fire alarm or the house alarm. Its the fire alarm, man I got out of bed in some kind of record speed. Ran around in the house trying to figer out what was going on, in and out through all the bedrooms downstairs, then up, then down again thinking that we probably have smoke detectors in the walk in closets, but nope there is no smoke, and no fire. By  now every single fire alarm in my house is screaming, think 11 fire alarms all at once 4 in the morning, THATS no good.

Whats worse is that I am the ONLY one awake, all the others are still asleep, yeees they sleep though this. I get back in the bedroom where Galahad is looking up with sleepy eyes and Chris is still snoring away, by now I am mad, making a mental note to myself never to leave the kids alone with him, they would never make it out in case there actually was a fire.

So I figured the batteries must be bad, there is a green and a red light on each and every one of the smoke detectors, guess what they were all blinking red, I didnt know if that was because they were all screaming or because ALL the batteries were bad. I had 3 9v batteries in the house, so I changed three and hoped for the best, naaaa the best didnt happen. I run up again, and grab the one I think is the "main" detector, and pull the batteri out of it and voila they all stop. 2 min later they were all screaming again. Now I am doing the !#@$^$@@%#@$!%^ by Chris's bed and he finally wakes up and says "did you change batteries" that did not make me in a better mood lol. I go to the fuse box and turn the main "thingie" off and the house goes black BUT the alarms were still screaming. Turn the main breaker on again, and they stop.......... . to start again 5 min later.

I get my butt into the car, drive to walgreens get 2 8 packs of 9 v batteries, home and when I open the car door I hear the alarms still screaming in the house. I change all the batteries and it stops ohhhhh man what wonderful silence..... for 2 min....... then it starts again.

I did loose my patience and I have now 11 smoke detectors in my house ripped out from the cables hanging from the ceiling and I have no idea what wrong with them. Chris who is trying to defend himself saying "ohhh but I had no idea what was wrong" duhhhhh neither did I. I have decided he is soooooo in the dog house today. AND I hereby declare my husband the king of all morons 

Does anyone have an idea what has happened to the smoke detectors, why in the world did they stop just to start again, and why did it not help when I changed every single battery?

Sorry for long post I had to vent a bit, Chris is tired of my venting lol

Marit

Soooo Galahad is totally in love with the tree, and other than trying to cuddle with it, he is really good. After all he isnt a year yet. BUT we have had several (read more than 10) ornament crashes. He walks by the tree and as usual wagging his tail, and swush several ornaments go down after his tail has wisked around in the tree 

I have taken all the breakable ornaments out of the tree now, I dont want it to happen when we are not there and one of the dogs or cats step on it and hurt themselves. But now I have christmas balls from the tree flying though the air every time he is passing. I have hung back like 15 today, every time I look there are new ones on the floor. Its a good thing he is a happy boy I guess, but dang, I am tired of putting back the ornaments in the tree, and let me tell ya, it aint getting any prettier 

Marit

We took the tree in this eve. As soon as it was standing up Galahad was all over it, rolling around almost in under it, it was like he was having a snuggle time with the tree, we havn't decorated it yet, but christmas pics this year starts with "naked tree" 

I got Galahad and BOTH girls to pose under it, Hera and Mattias gave me dirty looks and went in to watch must love dogs in our bedroom. Hera seems kinda worried about the tree this year, she wasnt at all bothered last year, I wonder why

Anyway here are a couple of pics

Marit

This is one of the kittens that "came with" mama cat this past summer, you know one of the cats I am FOSTERING 

His name cookie dough (we figured after he started to grow things girls dont do it was too late to change name) so we are now saving up for the sexchange surgery hehe

He's got extra toes on both front paws. We also call him Mittens, it kinda looks like his got little oven mittens on doesnt it lol.

Marit

I am redoing a bit in the bedroom where I have had the puter and printer, so I put it in the kitchen for a bit. Tornado has totally found a new toy. He gets up on the printer, steps around on it until he has hit a button that makes the thing spit out papers. Then he gets down and sits and peeks in where they come out. He can do that over and over, a cheap toy, I just put the papers back haha

Marit

This is a place in NC, what would you call it? I am sooooo upset right now, it isnt a question about IF the rescue groups will get a big percentage of these dogs, it is a question about HOW MANY?

when you talk about puppy wholesale place, and mention breeds that are total design breeds, and hybrids, it sickens me and it is very obvious why it is such a big problem with millions and millions of dogs put to sleep each and every year and rescue groups who are bursting trying to help as many as possible.

I am sooooo ready to try and figure out how to shut down places like this. the ones that misstreat the dogs, are the easy ones to shut down, the ones that look like labs with fat little puppies and vets and all, well they are the hard ones, but they do as much harm.

http://www.healthypups.com/

Marit

Winston, I have been away from BPO for some time, and I dont think I saw you on here before I took my break lol.

I take it he is a OEM? He is beautiful and was looking for pics of him on here, but couldnt find any, have you posted pics of him, if so where are they.

How old is he, and hight and weight lol hahaha I know it sounds like im playing 20 questions, but I just get so excited when I see another mastiff on here, we didnt have too many of them before.

Marit