So You Want to Have A Swimming Pool In Your Back Yard.... (2 Viewers)

[jazzeum]

Well, friends, here's Exhibit A for the reason you don't. We went to open our pool, admittedly a little late, and when they took off the cover, here's what awaited them.



The liner is ruined and has to be replaced. The cost? Let's just say for the cost I could buy a lot of Wooden Warbirds from Andy {eek3} Just to remove the deer from the pool cost $200! I suppose the saving grace is that the deer was a baby.

My wife had been bugging me about doing it, saying that she sees the deer and their babies going in there and since there's a rip in the cover (probably need a new one of those too ), she hopes one doesn't fall in and drown. Of course, I yessed her to death.

So friends, don't do it. You'll save yourself a lot of grief -- and money!

 

[Toy Soldier Brigade]

Man that is nasty. I bet it was quite fragrant as well

 

[jazzeum]

You got that right!

 

[wayne556517]

WOW.{sm2} the only thing ive ever seen dead in a pool in anyones backyard was a cat,do you live in the bush or something.....^&confuse

 

[jazzeum]

No, there are just a lot of deer around here. They are a hazard and constantly running into cars. About 10 years ago one hit a car and killed a woman and a passenger riding in her car.

 

[Toy Soldier Brigade]

They are everywhere in NJ. A few weeks ago I had at least a six run right across the road in front of my car. Last week I opened the blinds on my patio door and one was standing in my backyard. Ten years ago I hit one which did major damage to my car. I hate them.

 

[wayne556517]

No, there are just a lot of deer around here. They are a hazard and constantly running into cars. About 10 years ago one hit a car and killed a woman and a passenger riding in her car.

They are everywhere in NJ. A few weeks ago I had at least a six run right across the road in front of my car. Last week I opened the blinds on my patio door and one was standing in my backyard. Ten years ago I hit one which did major damage to my car. I hate them.

Sounds like it could be a very Dear problem..........{sm4}
(Sorry)

 

[Njja]

Geez Brad that's just awful!

Not to mention the fact that I just signed a contract to have one put in!{eek3}

It's not as bad in Georgia, I don't recall even seeing a deer, even with all the local parks and woodlands. Just one more little "gold star" for jersey!

We are having a salt water pool installed, so as long as Charlie the Tuna doesn't show up it should be unpleasant for uninvited "friends":tongue:

 

[Scott]

Even out on Cape Ann you can see a few Deer. I've seen them in my back yard only a hundred feet from the highway and a few hundred yards from the ocean in a residential area. They hide here during hunting season as well. I pointed one out to my daughter when she was small and she surprised me by commanding me to get my gun and shoot it!

The worst animals around here are raccoons and seagulls! A few Lobstermen have found drowned raccoons in their lobster traps. They get into them a low tide to eat the bait then drown when when they get stuck.

 

[jazzeum]

They are definitely a hazard and apart from deer issues pools suck out money. I know a few people who have had theirs filled in.

In a sense you have to feel bad for the deer. We've encroached on their land and they have no way to go.

 

[Combat]

Oh man! I've found a few nasty things in my pool but that tops them all. I have bats that swoop down and drink from the pool at 8:30PM on the dot. It makes for some nervous swimmers. If anyone wants to make a nice living, go into the pool business. Nothing costs less than 3K. With that said the kids love it. And with the newer systems maintenance is not that bad.

 

[Gideon]

Animal or not, what a terrible way to die.

 

[theBaron]

My parents have a pool, an in-ground, which they bought because my mother wanted it. My dad tolerates it, because it makes her happy to have the pool. But he's the one who has to maintain it. They had ducks land there one spring, after it was opened, but nothing bigger than a dead mouse floating in it.

As far as deer go, they're an infestation here in PA, albeit a delicious one. There are more deer now, it's estimated, than in pre-Colonial days. First, their natural predators have been all but eliminated, and the margins around farmland, and backyard gardens and planting, recreate the forest margins that is their preferred habit (they don't spend all their time in the deep woods--the greens that they eat are at the edges), so it's like a whitetail buffet from the Delaware to the Ohio state line. Whitetail, squirrels, rabbits and red-tailed hawks seem to have adapted pretty well, judging by the numbers of each that I see around here. And I'm starting to think there are a lot more red foxes around, than most people would think, from how frequently I'm seeing live and road-killed examples in rural parts of Lehigh and Northampton Counties.

Coyotes are here, too.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Combat]

Brad-
Don't feel too bad. Here is the king of all pool horror stories and a recent one:

A preliminary investigation shows "murky and cloudy" water in a public swimming pool helped conceal the body of a drowned woman for two days while people swam there, authorities said Friday.

The Bristol County district attorney's office said the body of Marie Joseph was submerged at the bottom of the 12-foot-deep end of the pool from Sunday afternoon until Tuesday evening.

Joseph, 36, was a hotel housekeeper in Newport, R.I. She was from Haiti and had five children. Her body was discovered after it floated to the surface shortly before some youngsters sneaked into the pool for a clandestine swim Tuesday night.

The medical examiner's office has determined the manner of her death to be accidental and the cause to be asphyxiation by drowning.

The probe shows the water in the Fall River pool was murky from the time the pool opened for the season last Saturday. Visibility tests conducted Wednesday revealed a diver couldn't be seen at a depth of 3 1/2 to 4 feet below the surface of the water.

"Although this office is releasing this preliminary information regarding the case today, the investigation into the death, the circumstances surrounding it and the delay in discovering the body is ongoing," the district attorney's office said in a statement.

State Department of Conservation and Recreation Commissioner Edward Lambert said the preliminary findings "are deeply disturbing."

The agency will immediately begin investigating issues related to Joseph's death, including clarity of the pool water and whether water quality protocols were followed, Lambert said.

The death at Veterans Memorial Pool surprised and troubled swimmers, residents and public officials.

Lambert's agency, which runs the pool, immediately closed all 30 deep-water swimming pools and began reviewing safety and operational procedures.

Lambert said that 11 pools reopened Friday after safety inspectors found they met all safety guidelines and their staffs are well-trained. Additional pools will reopen once their reviews are complete.

But the Fall River pool will not reopen anytime soon because its entire staff has been suspended. City officials also have said that they will not issue a permit to reopen until state officials assure them that swimmers will be safe there.

 

[damian]

My parents have a pool, an in-ground, which they bought because my mother wanted it. My dad tolerates it, because it makes her happy to have the pool. But he's the one who has to maintain it. They had ducks land there one spring, after it was opened, but nothing bigger than a dead mouse floating in it.

As far as deer go, they're an infestation here in PA, albeit a delicious one. There are more deer now, it's estimated, than in pre-Colonial days. First, their natural predators have been all but eliminated, and the margins around farmland, and backyard gardens and planting, recreate the forest margins that is their preferred habit (they don't spend all their time in the deep woods--the greens that they eat are at the edges), so it's like a whitetail buffet from the Delaware to the Ohio state line. Whitetail, squirrels, rabbits and red-tailed hawks seem to have adapted pretty well, judging by the numbers of each that I see around here. And I'm starting to think there are a lot more red foxes around, than most people would think, from how frequently I'm seeing live and road-killed examples in rural parts of Lehigh and Northampton Counties.

Coyotes are here, too.

Prost!
Brad

I thought that a lot of Americans liked hunting. Does that not help keep the wildlife in check.
We have a similar problem with monkeys. My Jack Russels chase them away as they do with the Reedbuck on our estate. We are not allowed to shoot the monkeys.

 

[Martin Tabony]

At least it was an accident unlike this. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ned-elderly-pony-lake-horrified-families.html

 

[theBaron]

I thought that a lot of Americans liked hunting. Does that not help keep the wildlife in check.
We have a similar problem with monkeys. My Jack Russels chase them away as they do with the Reedbuck on our estate. We are not allowed to shoot the monkeys.

Hunting laws vary from state to state, and there are federal laws, too, that impact it. But you're right, it's very popular, rooting deeply in the culture.

Regarding culling the herd of whitetail, our Commonwealth's Game Commission regulates the bag, by limiting the number of licenses that are issued for each season. The limits are set with an eye to maintaining the population across PA. What happens, though, that there are local booms in population, especially in areas where hunting is restricted for safety reasons, or otherwise limited (such as in state parks). Same goes for other kinds of large game, like black bears.

On the opening day of antlerless deer season in November, Pennsylvania has something like 200,000 men under arms in the field

Prost!
Brad

 

[Gideon]

My parents have a pool, an in-ground, which they bought because my mother wanted it. My dad tolerates it, because it makes her happy to have the pool. But he's the one who has to maintain it. They had ducks land there one spring, after it was opened, but nothing bigger than a dead mouse floating in it.

As far as deer go, they're an infestation here in PA, albeit a delicious one. There are more deer now, it's estimated, than in pre-Colonial days. First, their natural predators have been all but eliminated, and the margins around farmland, and backyard gardens and planting, recreate the forest margins that is their preferred habit (they don't spend all their time in the deep woods--the greens that they eat are at the edges), so it's like a whitetail buffet from the Delaware to the Ohio state line. Whitetail, squirrels, rabbits and red-tailed hawks seem to have adapted pretty well, judging by the numbers of each that I see around here. And I'm starting to think there are a lot more red foxes around, than most people would think, from how frequently I'm seeing live and road-killed examples in rural parts of Lehigh and Northampton Counties.

Coyotes are here, too.

Prost!
Brad

I heard that the parks commission was thinning the herds of deer at Valley Forge AND that all the meat was being donated to homeless shelters and poor families.

I asked all over the place if I could replace what I could take with beef and poultry. All that deer meat and I have to pay a small fortune for it in Philly if I can find it. Sheesh. Never mind the $25 plus per pound rate in NYC and Brooklyn.

So... anybody have some???

 

[Scott]

At least it was an accident unlike this. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ned-elderly-pony-lake-horrified-families.html

You won't see that on "My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Fat_Gypsy_Weddings

 

[Napoleon1er]

You won't see that on "My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Fat_Gypsy_Weddings

HA!{sm4} Very funny!