Ok, great. I wasn't terribly worried since they don't seem to be able to swim and all I need to do is skim the little carcasses out of the skimmer every day. Still, it's good to be sure. Thank you, again!
Thank you, Micky4Paws (love the name - I am also an animal lover, Elwood is my 4-legged friend). This forum has been a lifesaver and I've been raving about it to anyone who will listen.Congrats on your pool, Elwood5487, and welcome to the club of bugs and critters. I had heard that if you take a net and scoop out some boatman/backswimmer bugs, then put them in a 5 gallon bucket of water that has Dawn dishsoap in it, it will kill the bugs because they can't breath through the Dawn dishsoap. One particularly buggy summer, I felt like putting a whole bottle of Dawn in my pool. But I did try the bucket dunk and it worked, but then you have to keep doing it.
We get some chipmunks here and there committing suicide. If I see them on the surface of the water, I run, grab the pole and net them out. Oddest thing is I've never seen one get out of the pool on its own, until last week. Poor thing was in shock, but finally came back to life. We still can't figure out how he got out unless he used the skimmer some how.
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Thank you, Micky4Paws (love the name - I am also an animal lover, Elwood is my 4-legged friend). This forum has been a lifesaver and I've been raving about it to anyone who will listen.
I've also heard about the dish soap idea. Those guys are so fast I can't even almost catch them to get them in a bucket. So, here is my most recent wondering because I agree that I don't want to put 1/4 cup of dish soap in my pool either. But...what if we had some diluted dish soap in a spray bottle handy while in the pool and we sprayed them? Wonder if that would be enough to croak them. Thoughts?
Sorry to hear about the Chippers. I fished out one live and one dead squirrel earlier on in the season so I bought 2 frog logs just in case it happens again.