It is quite a mystery. It is quite loud and goes off more frequently at night. When I am outside it is very loud, almost like a whistle going off but I can't figure out where it is coming from because the sound does not last long enough. I don't think we have those types of frogs where I am from and I am pretty sure it is something electronic. Thanks for all your ideas!

JNM - you know....it's definitely possible. She likes to do stuff to intentionally irritate me. After seeing that journal, I realized that she was a catalyst for most of the arguements that X and I had in the first couple years after divorce. I was trying to be fair to all of us, even at my own inconvenience, but she had convinced him that I was trying to screw him over (anyone could read our divorce papers and see that I am the one who got screwed over). One of her posts was about the trip to the hospital we had to make when DS was 4. I had signed him up for t-ball because X wouldn't let me see him the entire month of June (long story). So I figured that if I signed him up for t-ball then I'd at least get a few hours a week at games and practices. The first practice just so happened to be on the day of my sister's baby shower. I figured that he'd have plenty of practices, but my sister wouldn't have anymore babies after this one. So I went to the shower and got a call that DS had been hit in the face with a bat. I drove over to X's parent's house and they followed me to the ER. We waited quite a while to have an x-ray of his face to see if anything was broken. He ended up being fine, just really swollen. She wrote on that site that I was trying to seduce X the whole time and he was sickened by the site of me. That every time they walked outside to smoke he would say how much he hated me and how he wished I would leave. She said she's a better mother than me even though she's a year younger and never had kids. She accused me of trying to show my "nasty" breasts to X the entire time. So, see, she definitely would do something like that to get at me. Now that I think about it, she got her tattoo the same week as he got his motorcycle. And he got his motorcycle while they were broken up. I remember that because she had sent me a message on MySpace asking if he had ever put his hands on me in a threatening way or made me think he would. That was Jan. 2007 and he got the bike a couple months later. They didn't get back together until later that summer, or so he said. June actually. So maybe it really doesn't stand for them and she just made it up. Hmmmm......thanks JNM for getting me thinking. But I still think I need to pee on my tree, so to speak. LMAO!

"Could I have, maybe, never noticed this before??" Maybe, but it could also have just started. Most of the CFLs are built VERY cheaply. They use high frequency switching power supplies to improve efficiency and generate the required high voltages in a very compact package. Even a wire in the device tat is free to move can cause them to be noisy. I would try changing the CFL out, and then dispose of it if it is indeed making the noise.

I wonder if she has a dental problem. If you can turn your crate on end so the entrance is "up," rather than on one side where you push her in, that can work better. Keep the crate out of sight until the moment you are ready to put her in. Pick her up, put her in through the top before she has time to fight you. Surprise, kitty!! Hope you can get help.