Last night was very restless. In fact, it’s the third night in a row I’ve had little sleep. Something is keeping Scully awake and alert all night. Normally she sleeps like a log from bed time to after we get up. But these past nights she’s been sitting up alert, and wanting to constantly get off the bed and go out to the lounge room, and then she comes back in again, and repeats the cycle, all through the night.
I know she hates the high-pitched buzz of mosquitoes, but we’ve sprayed and sprayed and I’m sure there are none of those because normally they bite me and I really notice it. I suspect that someone in our apartment building might have a new appliance or something that is running through the night and making a high-pitched sound that Scully can hear.
When the sun came up (I’d been awake since about 2am), I emailed someone on the building strata committee to ask if any equipment had been installed or updated in the building that might be responsible. I thought maybe perhaps an ultrasonic pest repellent device or something. But the response came back negative – no electrical work of any kind in the past week.
While lying awake in the night, in the quietest moments I thought I could maybe hear some rhythmic beeping, just at the edge of my hearing. I’m not sure if it was real, or if I was imagining it. But I think I’ve heard it the past couple of nights, and had never heard it before. But I can’t be sure. I’m aware that dogs have much more sensitive ears and can hear higher pitched sounds than humans can, so even if I’m wrong it could still be something like this.
We may have to write a letter and copy it to all our neighbours in the building to try to find out if anyone has recently acquired a new electrical device that could be causing a noise that Scully can hear.
The other alternative is that it might be something wrong with Scully. But otherwise her behaviour seems normal. During the day and when out on walks she seems fine. I took her on a very long walk today to try and tire her out so she’ll sleep through tonight. Hopefully, otherwise tomorrow I’m going to be a right wreck if I don’t get a decent sleep again.
Despite being tired all day, I did a new Darths & Droids strip. I had some time in the afternoon to do other things, but didn’t get much done because of the tiredness.
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Is there such a thing as an ultrasonic white noise generator? Would that help Scully?
A quick Google shows there are in fact white noise generators specially designed for calming dogs and drowning out distracting noises. it might work…
But I once tried a white noise generator in a hotel when travelling, and found it so distracting I couldn’t sleep until I turned it off!