mouse in my pool

[lynne]

PLEASE CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF THERE IS ANY EXTRA CARE TO BE TAKEN AFTER SCOOPING A MOUSE OUT OF MY POOL. OR DO WE NEED EXTRA CHEMICALS IN IT OR IF THATS NOT ENOUGH TO GET RID OF GERMS DO WE HAVE TO EMPTY IT, PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP ME IT MAKES ME FEEL SICK. BY THE WAY IT WAS DEAD AND LAYING AT THE SHALLOW END AT THE BOTTOM.

[Pool Helper]

Shock treat the pool. Wait 48 hours before swimming. This is not a big problem. The germs will all be dead within a day but waiting 2 is just a precaution.

There is no need to empty the pool or do anything radical. After all, the water we drink out of the faucet comes from lakes and dams where wildlife breed, drop waste and die every day.

[pacobell]

Try this web site for help next time a mouse or frog gets in the pool

[deaun]

PLEASE CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF THERE IS ANY EXTRA CARE TO BE TAKEN AFTER SCOOPING A MOUSE OUT OF MY POOL. OR DO WE NEED EXTRA CHEMICALS IN IT OR IF THATS NOT ENOUGH TO GET RID OF GERMS DO WE HAVE TO EMPTY IT, PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP ME IT MAKES ME FEEL SICK. BY THE WAY IT WAS DEAD AND LAYING AT THE SHALLOW END AT THE BOTTOM.

Lynne,
Pool Helper is right...we experience a wide variety of wildlife in our pool out here in the sticks also, and after a storm last summer (a nest full of fledglings and their mother), I swear by shock. By the way, I have a
4 1/2 lb. bullfrog living in the pool now...

Best luck!

[dand]

I find all kinds of little dead critters in the pool every year; mice, snakes, etc. I just keep shock handy and have never gotten sick. When the weather gets a little warmer I tend to get some frogs swimming around which I just catapult out the pool

just my 2cents.

[Backglass]

You can rest assured that if your pool was properly chlorinated, that you now own a nice, well sanitized mouse carcass.

Scoop out, dispose, shock and relax!

[missing_eric]

You can rest assured that if your pool was properly chlorinated, that you now own a nice, well sanitized mouse carcass.

Scoop out, dispose, shock and relax!

2 chipmunks so far this year!

[BrickPool]

(1) mouse and (1) rabbit so far. SHOCK IT !

[Poolside in Ktown]

How bout an OPOSSUM ! lol yep really happened, baby Opossum was found in my skimmer bucket! YUCK ! Since our last Tropical storm Debby seems like it rained out frogs, everyday I am getting many out of my skimmer...how nasty !

[TSH Tech]

The grossest of the gross are moles that have been in the pool for a few days. I cannot describe their awful, AWFUL odor. 5 and 7 at a time discovered in the leaf catcher of a Hayward Navigator pool cleaner... absolute gross-out ... and I've seen some pretty gross messes in my time.

Silently, I laugh. I keep all laughter to myself, though. As long as I've been in this business, housewives freak out when there's a dead rodent in the pool. But this one I cannot for the life of me, figure out; seems perfectly ok to allow a baby in the pool with a diaper.
If I had to choose a torture test, I'd rather swim in a pool with a dead mouse than a baby that has taken a dunk into a pool with a diaper on.

I'll throw my .2 cents in agreeing with everyone else, shock the pool. The Centers for Disease Control recommends pool superchlorination(shock) for fecal matter and a period of no swim due to the serious nature of bacterial infections and possible fatal infections for those with low immune systems.