My neighbor recently found a second cat drowned in her pool. In these hot days, cats and dogs can get very thirsty and seek relief from your or a neighbor's pool. I have a rain barrel beneath my gutter. If I'm not quick to empty it, I very often find a squirrel carcass therein on a hot summer day. Here are some tips that can save "Fluffy's" life:
Keep the pool filled to the top so an animal that falls in can climb out.
Leave something in the pool that floats.
Leave buckets or pails of clean fresh water out on the ground. Birds, squirrels, opposum and other assorted critters may go for that rather than the chlorine flavored stuff.
Thanks for the post. I don't have an in ground pool, but I have friends that do, and this is a serious problem!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
I like when I can get the double benefit of cool and refreshing oasis and death trap for nuisance animals. I was happy to fish 2 dead baby skunks out of my skimmer yesterday morning ( I empty 2-3 times a day) so that was cool. They are disgusting beasts and it saved me the trouble of shooting them dead with a pellet gun. Anytime a squirell or chipmunk decides to off itself in my pool, I say " be my guest!" A possum would be a bonus, since I detest those things.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Yeah, it also saves me the trouble of going to NAPA to get antifreeze, if I don't have any handy. And trying to locate the smelly corpse too. I wish wood chucks would go for a swim but they don't seem interested in water the way lower creatures such as Skunks, Possums and Raccoons do. One night while sitting in my patio I watched a big skunk scurry by the glass door dragging one of the largest rabbits I have seen. It must have pounced on it and killed it. So it drags the rabbit to the fence gate, and tries to get it through the fence. Making a racket as it slams the things body against the post for a half hour I finally scare it away. First thing in the AM I go out and fetch the carcass, it chewed the head off since that was all it could get through the opening and left the carcass jammed in between the gate and post. Worms got the better part of the rabbit for all the work the stupid skunk did. They are the pits. No redeeming value whatsoever, but nonetheless they are survivors as a species.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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