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

[HoosierDaddy]

New to me this year was a baby rabbit. Caught him swimming one day and fished him out. (Didn't know they could swim!)

He must've had fun. Next day, I opened the cover and there he was again - but it was too late... I still haven't told the wife or kids...

 

[BestJoeyEver]

Yuck! We have a neighborhood filled with deer and assorted creatures. I'm always bracing myself as I flip open the strainers.

I don't think I could brace myself enough to find a deer in my skimmer basket!!

 

[OhCanada]

Only 1 mouse in the skimmer so far this year. Will get a pooper scooper to fish them out from now on as my basket doesn't have a handle.
A few years back in another property I had we'd get baby raccoons learning to swim in the pool at night - what a racket. But the mother always fished the babies out.
And there was a moose that fell into a winterised pool in Ottawa a number of years ago - made the newspapers.

 

[Marlahoutex]

I had a dead baby possum in mine. Gross!

 

[salty87]

Skimmer's had a busy week
- baby mouse
- lizard, no idea what kind but a good 6-8" long
- couple frogs

At least 1 sunken scorpion in the pool or spa every day. Scorpions everywhere lately.

 

[BattleOfYakima]

still alive or dead?

 

[JoyfulNoise]

Scorpions can live under water for a very long time. They can shutdown their respiration to extremely low levels. Whenever I see one in the skimmer basket, I usually try to lift it out with a stick to see if it is alive.

 

[BattleOfYakima]

Great info, thank you!

 

[dcbear90]

Riddle me this Batman. How does a frog get into the pump skimmer? I have a skimmer basket at the pool, but one day I go over to shut the pump off and through the clear cover I can see a frog floating in there. He had drowned unfortunately, so I popped the cover off and got him out of there, but I still can't figure out how he got through the pool skimmer, through the line underground and into the pump skimmer.

 

[JoyfulNoise]

Riddle me this Batman. How does a frog get into the pump skimmer? I have a skimmer basket at the pool, but one day I go over to shut the pump off and through the clear cover I can see a frog floating in there. He had drowned unfortunately, so I popped the cover off and got him out of there, but I still can't figure out how he got through the pool skimmer, through the line underground and into the pump skimmer.

Does the pump run all the time?

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My latest critters have been scorpions. My robot has picked up two and I have found two in the skimmer in the last week....

 

[dcbear90]

Does the pump run all the time?

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My latest critters have been scorpions. My robot has picked up two and I have found two in the skimmer in the last week....

Yes it does

 

[JoyfulNoise]

Yes it does

That is strange....if there is a main drain or equalizer port below the skimmer, that's another source of entry to the suction side of the pump. But I doubt a large frog could get in through those....

 

[pabeader]

They aren't very large after they get sucked in... eeww.

 

[JoyfulNoise]

???

 

[pooldv]

It probably slipped by when emptying the skimmer basket. I've had that happen a couple of times.

 

[dcbear90]

It probably slipped by when emptying the skimmer basket. I've had that happen a couple of times.

Quite possible

 

[BattleOfYakima]

They aren't very large after they get sucked in... eeww.

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perfect posts you two! you two gave me a hilarious, yet cringing, belly laugh