Random thoughts in the Dog House

[phesina]

Oh, that's all great! The picture, to begin with, then Bernie having the sweatshirts made and sold and giving the proceeds to food banks and such, AND then that nursing website adaptation of it!

Thanks, Elyse!

[Karen]

Grrrrrrr. Whoever designed and sold a smoke detector that CANNOT have its battery replaced, but must be discarded and a new one bought should be forced to swallow the great Pacific Garbage Patch in one sitting.

Just had one go off for having a low battery, and when it was finally prized open, one had to break the plastic to get at the non-standard battery that was wired into place. Evil. Just Evil.

Tissue - even tissues can be recycled or composted. But planned obsolescence for a smoke detector? Evil, say I.

[Vette]

I know right. i have always wondered about those smoke detector an why theyre made like that

[cassiesmom]

Grrrrrrr. Whoever designed and sold a smoke detector that CANNOT have its battery replaced, but must be discarded and a new one bought should be forced to swallow the great Pacific Garbage Patch in one sitting.

Just had one go off for having a low battery, and when it was finally prized open, one had to break the plastic to get at the non-standard battery that was wired into place. Evil. Just Evil.

Tissue - even tissues can be recycled or composted. But planned obsolescence for a smoke detector? Evil, say I.

How is it priced? Is it comparable to a smoke detector that can have its battery replaced? I don't like climbing on a stool to try to get the smoke detector down when it starts chirping, which in my case is usually at the worst possible time. And one of my neighbors always calls to tell me it's chirping (yes, I hear it and it takes me a few minutes to get the stepstool in position). Is the whole thing designed to be thrown away? It would end up in a landfill, which seems like a bad idea to me. I thought you weren't supposed to put batteries in a landfill?

[Karen]

Apparently the whole thing was designed to be thrown away. Some batteries are okay for dispel, others should be recycled, and this was mixed plastic, metal and paper, so impossible to sort for recycling without spending considerable time and energy.

I do not remember how much it cost - it's not like there was a label on the box saying "No replacing the battery on this one" when we bought it!

[cassiesmom]

I read on Facebook that yesterday (April 11) was National Pet Day- I caught it there, but not here . So-- belatedly, happy National Pet Day to all the PT pets, cats, dogs and people! (RB Cassie would have argued that every day should be National Pet Day!)

[phesina]

Thank you, Elyse, from Sparkler and Tinker and me! I didn't know this before. Of course, Sparkler and Tinker agree with Cassie Angel that every day is National Pet Day.

A belated Happy National Pet Day to all our PT friends of all species!

Purrrs!
- Sparkler and Tinker

Cheers!
- Pat

[Furpup67]

Yeah this Covid is pretty bad but it is bringing people together