There's a dead animal in my pool

[kimkats]

Ewwwwwwwwwww

rat water

4 FOOT??? moc??

75 LBS???? turtle?????

Looking in my skimmer RIGHT now!

Oh I had bat one time but know it was not in there long so that helps.

 

[pooldv]

Yeah, 75lb turtle? That's pretty dang big!

 

[cannoncd]

Just slam until the animal is completely digested.

:tasty:​

 

[Amail]

We get lizards. Found a poor alligator lizard in my skimmer a few weeks, wasn't sure how long he'd been there but he looked "fresh". Picked him up by his tail and a bunch of gray nastiness poured out his mouth into the skimmer. Yep, time for a few bottles of chlorine!

 

[Ncdamsel]

In my pool
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had a dead bird in mine last year ....gross but it just goes with having a pool....has a frog dead this year so far

 

[Rollercoastr]

I found a stiff frog spinning in my skimmer a few weeks ago. It caught me off guard because that means I had a frog in the house. I had the screen door open in the pool room while i cleaned the patio. I guess he slipped by me to take a swim.

It gives me pause each time I lift the skimmer lid now. Why aren't they clear? I have some single-thick plexiglass in the garage that will become a temporary lid. I'm considering getting a thicker piece to support being stepped on.

 

[techman65]

I found a dead rabbit in my skimmer once on Christmas morning.

 

[jasnovanorder]

75-lb. snapping turtle, very much alive. [Pond is 30 feet from pool.]

Turtle stew!!!

I feel lucky the worst I find is dead ants earwigs and a swarm of japanese beetles every dang day

 

[Mike5265]

Haha I love this thread! I'm going to have to start documenting my skimmer finds now. Seriously though I feel like my pool is playing Pokemon, gotta catch em all!! It's at least every other day I have frogs or little rodents, but the snapping turtle I found in the muck on the bottom is still my favorite find! Bleach to the rescue!

 

[Mike5265]

It's real interesting when you find something in there and come back for it later and it's gone! Especially since my preggo wife can't get down there(not that she would anyway)

 

[Amail]

One night I let the dogs into the backyard for a bathroom break and they got really interested in something in the pool. I shined a flashlight on it and saw a tiny baby possum swimming around! I fished him out and put him on the fence, hopefully to be reunited with his mom. Never saw him again, but was struck by how lucky he was to have been spotted before drowning.

Owl probably got him.

 

[phonedave]

A friend of my wife looked out the kitchen window one day to see her horse in her pool. Does that count?

Granted, somebody left the paddock gate open, and the horse decided to go wading, so it was just just standing in about 4' of water, but still - horse in the pool.


-dave

 

[Mike5265]

Uhm. Get it out.

Hahaha ?

 

[Time Vampire]

Very large squirrel when I opened it in May. Looked like it was there for quite a while..........

 

[AimeeH]

And I know someone who came home to this

 

[riggs0000]

Copper headed rattle moccasin for sure, quite deadly.

 

[Mike5265]

Just came home to this... Definitely a first for me

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[riggs0000]

Quick Robin, to the Bat Pool!

 

[triptyx]

So far this season, I'm at:
15 frogs (9 live, 6 dead - I've started checking each night before bed with a flashlight)
1 kangaroo rat
3 lizards
1 scorpion
1 bird of some sort - it had been in the filter basket for a little while

 

[gocubs418]

In my pool
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What intersections in Little Elm? I also live there.... hoping you are closer to the lakeside so I never have to deal with this. I am pretty much a street away from Frisco, even in my lawn it says "City of Frisco Water".