Thought I was going to get away with it....

[JoyfulNoise]

But alas, no, we've got a "floater".....

Luckily I happen to have a gallon of 10% on me so I'll be elevating the FC and closing the pool for 24 hours.

 

[Texas Splash]

That one obviously did not ready the TFP Pool School Safety page.

 

[JanHan]

Is that a rat? Mole? Guinea Pig? It looks like it has mange, along with the whole dead problem.

 

[JoyfulNoise]

Arizona ground squirrel (like a prairie dog). Little cuties rip up my front yard. I kill a few dozen every year with snap-traps. Hate them!!!

He's just a little waterlogged and bloated is all....

 

[JanHan]

Yuck! We have a neighborhood filled with deer and assorted creatures. I'm always bracing myself as I flip open the strainers. So far only turtles and frogs, but I know it's only a matter of time before a snake or armadillo tries to party though.

 

[Dewayne B.]

It's for that same reason my kids will no longer check and empty the skimmer basket for me.

 

[pabeader]

I check mine twice a day cuz I feel bad when I find something drowned.

 

[SuzfromTexas]

I check mine twice a day cuz I feel bad when I find something drowned.

I feel the same way! This has worked really well for me.

Swimline 70200SL FrogLog Critter Saving Escape Ramp https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004UHY2TY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_TB-wzb4PY5DMT

 

[JoyfulNoise]

I check mine twice a day cuz I feel bad when I find something drowned.

I feel the same way! This has worked really well for me.

Swimline 70200SL FrogLog Critter Saving Escape Ramp https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004UHY2TY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_TB-wzb4PY5DMT

Wow....you guys are way too nice. Survival-of-the-fittest in my book - clearly that critter was dumb enough to go near my pool therefore it deserved its fate :slidehalo:

 

[ZcottD]

Somehow the frogs around here have learned to adapt and evolve to chlorine. Had 12 in the pool at one point. You close your pool for a day if you find an animal in it? We still swim, are we weird or are you extra cautious?

 

[JoyfulNoise]

Somehow the frogs around here have learned to adapt and evolve to chlorine. Had 12 in the pool at one point. You close your pool for a day if you find an animal in it? We still swim, are we weird or are you extra cautious?

The squirrel was dead and bloated in the skimmer for an indeterminate time period as it had been 3 days since I last checked. So, out of an abundance of caution I raised the FC to 10ppm and kept the kids out for a day. Not really a big deal around here as it is way too hot outside to swim during the day.

 

[HiddenRiver]

I feel the same way! This has worked really well for me.

Swimline 70200SL FrogLog Critter Saving Escape Ramp https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004UHY2TY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_TB-wzb4PY5DMT

I have one of these and it works quite well. No frogs in my skimmer this year.

 

[woodyp]

Had some guests who could have used a people sized one of those............................

 

[ctrav]

No dead animals yet but the first day after fill I went out to brush and there was a field rat doing laps in my pool I mean this little guy had his head up and was going to town. I just used the pool brush to get him out and he ran back off into the field.

 

[kk_isme]

I was gone one weekend and came home to find a dead bird floating in my pool. Stinky and gross. Raised the chlorine way high and didn't swim for a week. :tongue:

 

[S1ngram]

My grandfather had a deer in his pool years ago. Thankfully they were home. I caught a possum, thankfully he didn't fit in the skimmer:taped:

 

[StacyTX]

I was in about third grade and loved to skim our neighbors' pool and empty the skimmer baskets.
A dead possum taught me to look before reaching in. 40 years later, I finally have my own pool and still remember grabbing that possum every dingdang time I open a skimmer cover.

 

[Steve H]

Not in my skimmer basket but in the pool, so far this summer I've fished out 3 desert mice and 1 lizard.

Steve H

 

[Mrsheller2246]

New critter for me this season was a bat. Apparently they can't swim [emoji12]

 

[BattleOfYakima]

Oh....that's where I left her. Thanks for letting me know you found her; the reward is in the mail. Pity she didn't make it out this time...she is such a strong swimmer and usually treads until someone nets her out.