May 24th, 2011
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Having a dog at a home with a swimming pool requires an additional level of safety considerations. First and foremost, your dog should not have any means of unintentional access to the pool. The pool needs to be fenced and gated. If you choose to allow your dog into the swimming pool, then your pooch needs to repeatedly be shown how to enter and exit the pool using the steps. The steps should also have a permanent, above water identifying mark such as a flag, landscape feature, etc. that will make the steps easily recognizable to a swimming dog. If you have a cover, then it needs to have enough rigidity to support the weight of your pooch. Many dogs have perished due to disorientation and entanglement in soft pool covers. Lastly, dogs should never be left unattended with access to the swimming pool.
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How true. We almost lost our little Rottie/Lab puppy in just 60 seconds. I turned my attention away for a minute and the next thing you know, she’s crawling towards the door, soaking wet and barely breathing. She fell in the pool and luckily made it out. She’s fine now but for a few days it was touch and go. It only takes a few seconds of inattention to lose your pet so please always take precautions.
Be careful with those plastic pools too! We bought a larger one for our Golden Retriever pup and I started filling it up with the hose and left it for a few minutes. When I came back to check on it our Mini-Dachshund had jumped over the foot high wall and was standing up to her chest in COLD water. Was she mad and was I shocked. She wouldn’t have been able to get out if it was full. I cut out a one foot wide door in it and from then on she would be able to walk out. She never went in it again though.
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