Forum: Pools, Pets and Creepy Critters

Hello, I live in North Alabama, and it seems that a bunch of birds have decided to use my IG pool as a toilet. There are many deposits on and...

I'm sure this has been asked a million times, but all of the old posts are gone. I even hoped Google had cached some of the old posts, but I couldn't...

We are thinking of getting a vinyl liner, ingound pool. We also have a golden retriever that LOVES to swim. Will she cause a lot of damage?? Is it...

We have been slammed with rain the past 5 or so weeks, but I am seeing a BUNCH Of roaches around my pool in the mulch and such...anybody know how to...

We have had our 24,000 gal., below ground, gunite, swg pool for three years. All has been wonderful until, suddenly, this summer our pool has been...

Hello: Been a lurker since last year, never had a pool before so after reading this forum got the guts to try out an Intex 12' round last year....

Some of you may know that I still do some local service work for larger commercial pools. Today, my older son and I were delivering some equipment,...

Finally got my pool water clear and clean thanks to this forum and yesterday a neighbors dog decided to take a swim and climb out over the edge...

Ok, here's the story! Mini Doxy got fleas last week, took him to the groomer now is all clear. Sprayed some kind of mega spray in the yard to kill...

Had a baby turkey in my skimmer the other day when I opened the pool. It was about 10 inches tall. I opened the top and thought what the heck is...

Has anyone had a problem with large spiders living near the pool? These are very strange looking--reddish-pink bodies and they crawl in and out of...

we have awful horse flies. they are never around it seems until the kids get in the pool. as soon as everybody gets wet out they come, landing on...

In May 06 we had 3 of our 5 lines replaced - 2 returns and 1 wall vac line. Luckily, since the concrete slabs and the perimeter of the pool are lined...

I did fine all winter and now my wife has put out bird feeders (gone now) and has attracted birds to the pool as a bath, drink and a place to take a...

Just want to leave behind something that has worked... I had/have issues with Honeybees coming to my pool for water. I read up and tried a few...

How do I keep frogs out of my pool?

Well, we didn't close the pool properly last fall and finally got around to opening it this afternoon. We cleaned the leaves off the surface and...

I noticed a lot of bird poop on the edge and in the pool over the past few weeks and last night I discovered why. It seems the Grackels think the...

Just wondering if anyone else is having problems with fire ants. We are in south central Texas. After every rain they come out in force with the...

So... in the last week I've had to fish 3 mice out of my pool.... One of them I "rescued" as it was still alive and swimming for dear life, and...

Each night for the past three weeks, a bat has visited our pool at 845pm, like clockwork. He/she swoops down from the surrounding brush and trees,...

I have ants around the coping of my pool CONSTANTLY. I want to kill them but am leery of spraying any type of spray that close to my water. I can...

When I arrived home from work last night and walked through the garage to the back yard, I found a baby racoon in the pool. Thankfully he was still...

the other day. It was early a.m. and I had my 3 dogs out with me to shut off power to the automatic pool cover pump since we didn't get the rain...

It looks like I have water boatman and can not seem to get rid of them. I have started with the BBB recently and have gotten the levels in good...

This is a new development. Several times in the past week, a turkey has pooped in the spa (my spa is connected to the pool, they share the same...

The last 2 mornings I found a little package on the top step of my IG pool. :eek: Looks about "cat size". I'm concerned that I this is some...

Here in NE Florida, we had our first significant rain in about the last 35 days or so, on a Friday night. Went out to the pool Saturday morning, and...

I have an in-ground pool infested with Boatmen, no matter how many hundreds I scoop out every day, there are a hundred more the next day. -Including...