Yes my lab seems interested in it too, but hasn't retrieved it yet... We just moved into this house and this is our first pool. Everything seemed to be working fine of course til we moved in. Now the sweeper gets stuck in the corners and every once in awhile the reverse valve will pick it up and move it to the other end of the pool. It looks like the valve has been drug around on the bottom/sides of the pool and is worn right where the jet is. Some water seems to come out around the jet instead of through it. I still can't get the **** valve apart so I don't know what it looks like inside yet. I may just have to buy new one.