7 month old puppy swimming - Page 2

 Well, Mike   that article I will dispute till the  cows come home

I swim in the salt water pool , and I know it is soft, it has no smell, my eyes do not burn , it is not unsafe bacterial wise and my Catalina swim suit has not faded in two whole years of swimming..

 The article presents some fact  very much an opinion and not factually.  I know what I see and I would not be in it for hours and have no residual effects like we did in our old pool who was put in my home by Gulf Coast Pools , a man who has installed Holiday Inns for tons of years before he installed mine. My families   SALT WATER pool is so easy to keep that if left to my grandkids, without a mom and dad they would never miss a lick

It is like trying to convince me  Kibble diets without raw are better than RAW>

Vets try to convince dog owners raw is horrible and is deadly.

I sold bathing suits for 30 of my 49 years in fashion and I know what chlorine does to a swimsuit.

BUt it is like telling a lady that Catalina is better than BOBBY BROOKS...I  know which ones is better material , more costly but will last for many swims more than the other..
It is like telling someone that a diesel engine is much better than a gasoline engine and safer for the environment...

The article is also just like telling new home owners that installing a  SOLAR SYSTEM FOR  their electricity is better, more efficient and safer than the electric company...WELL>, I disagree, talking to many builders here in Tyler..The initial cost is astronomical..if you are wealthy and can see your return on your dollar and have a huge home and intend to live there for 30 plus years you may save some money..

Other arguements pros and cons for salt water pools is same exact opinionated try . If  you have one and you know the results and how you know the big difference, then you have your own self to satisfy.
You could not give me or any of our family another chlorine based pool.
My daughter was on the Swim Team in her senior year in high school and she had horrible headaches and chlorine smell day and night and said she would never own a pool again..Grandson quit the swim team last year in his school because the chlorine levels in school pool was sickening and he could not even sleep at night after a few hours practice for eyes swollen and the saturation of chlorine on his body...SO I know from hands on and body in...the salt water pool it is entirely different and entirely soft, safe, odorless and clothes are bright colors and stay . My jewelry has no effect in this salt water pool..YOU cannot wear gold, torquouise or coral jewelry in any chlorine pool.
Mine is on my body in this pool and I had no effects on it..SO the facts in that article are not of a nature that is all fact.

Just do not swim your dog in your pool . Solves that question. If you think you know better than go ahead and swim your dog ..

A roll of the dice is a roll of a dice.. I would not want to be on the other end a couple of years down the road..I know we have a lot of other chemicals that harm dogs...your insecticide , which chlorine is one ...classified as an insecticide....flea meds are chemicals...shots are chemical...breathing fumes of our vehicles are chemicals...we cannot get away from all but we can be smart about not subjecting our animals to the ones we can control...

THE liver is over worked in animals and dogs both...Preserve the liver ,you have a much better life to live, as the liver is a miraculous organ in our body. It does regenerate itself and white THISTLE IS  A HERB  you can take to help detox your liver, along with eating lemons in everything and lots of  healthy antioxidants.


Yr

Lots of people don't like their dogs to swim in the salt water of the sea;  and say that they should always be showered off
immediately after swimming.
Mine only goes in the sea on rare occasions (I live nowhere near the coast)  so I don't really worry about it, but can see
that may be a problem for people in different situations.
 

YR, I think I remember climate was a reason to choose one system over another, too. I think the "pool guy" said salt systems are sold to more owners who keep their pools open year round. Can't remember the reason why it made a difference, lol, but it was a factor in our choice.

I think people just need to use some common sense and give fido a good rinse, same as any PERSON using the pool. For some reason people (and my dog) keeps coming back to swim, it can't be all that BAD. LOL

LOL....Yeah, try to keep my dogs out of the water.  Getting a Lab mix only made it worse.  

I only have natural based pools (not salt, not chlorine) so I can't tell you from experience one way or the other.  I know that dogs are more and should be more resiliant than most people give them credit for.  (than again, I do not own the new designer dogs)

That said, I would not recommend letting a dog play a lot in a chlorine based pool, just like I will not put myself through that.  If it can damage me, it can hurt animals (dogs).  Chlorine is harmful to me so why let my dogs have it?

Use your common sense.  If the water is uncomfortable to you, it will be uncomfortable to your dog.  If you swim in it for 30 min with no reaction, test for 15 minutes on the dog.  Rinsing off afterwards will not hurt and may or may not help.   Then see if there is a reaction.  Look for increase in scratching, look in the soft, hairless belly area for any reaction.  Go from there.

One thing to keep in mind, you tell kids "not to drink the pool water."  Why is that?  How are you going to prevent the dog from drinking the water?

If you are close to a lake, that is a better alternative...It is as it was created, nothing man-made was added (I hope).

Bee:



What is salt?...Sodium Chloride, therefore chlorine is being generated for the pool through a “chlorine generator” and the salt level is about 1/10 of salt water in the ocean. I guess people should stop swimming in the ocean? Here are some of the advantages of having a saltwater pool: no toxic chemicals to buy, store and handle; no stinging eyes and no chlorine smell; lower maintenance. All pool builders these days are building salt water pools, they only build the old chlorinated pools if requested by the owner.

The ozonator is a good thing to have on your chlorine pool  NASA used it to Purify water for the astronauts in space and osmoseis is used here by most well owners to purify the water we get out of ground...instead of chlorine from city water.

Chemical companies and pool companies with wharehouses full of chlorine products are gonna negate the salt water until they sell all their products..

SO it is a choice for what you want.

When a dog has mega skin problems, our vet says...sure wish we had the gulf water here for you to go swim the dog..

Salt water is used in your nostrils to clear your sinus' of junk and infection.

Salt is a natural GOD given product from the earth and SUN is the energizer.

My son in law wrote the first paragraph. He  is the owner of the pool I swim in.. He is a Texas Certified Survey Engineer.   A Land man...  he is the one that takes care of the pool so he is the one who knows .

DOGS just dirty up a pool unnecasarily , especially when you have 10 teenagers in your pool almost every week end.

Their dogs do jump in and love it  but they limit it because of the idea....they did not build the pool for the dogs use. Dogs go to the LAKE  to cool off and play.

Pool builders in Tyler are not installing Chlorine pools unless  THE owner wants the old style. New techniqology is to make homes safer, healthier and economical in todays fast pace life.

My biggest , besides the chlorine burning and the results of it, task and dislike of my pool was the mice and rats that ended up in my pool strainer.. I had to call a neighbor to come rid them..THEY  ate holes in my screen room to get to the water they thought was good for them. THAT  is another drawback of living in the Gulf Coast area...or anywhere. Varmits are drawn to water..
Always check your skimmer before you go in the pool. Friday the 13th is not how I want to swim..


YR

My pool isn't exactly old....LOL! Just sayin'. Matter of fact, it is pretty much state of the art. Even has those cleaning jets, and circulalor, etc. so we are 99% vacuum free. Sometimes this pool just seems like it's alive! Yes, the skimmer, that can be a sad ending place for amphibeans. I do what I can in that rescue department. 

My DH is our "Pool" guy. He does all the testing and chemical adding. It becomes a matter of pride, eventually to have the closest to perfection, crystal clean, balanced water. He would agree, dogs in the pool annoys the ^*$%&* out of him. My philosophy is more of the one that goes, "Life's messy, clean it up."

So, when he's around the dog doesn't go in the pool. 

 Yeah my hubby was the same way...when the cat 's away the mice play. When he was alive we had three dobermans, cocker spaniels and the one Guard dog for our business. I let the one doberman swim a few times with the kids

After I was the sole proprieter I let

Zu my foundation bitch jump in once in a while..

She was my love of my life and I always gave her a few priviledges . But back them I was green in dogs and green in a lot of lifes reasonings...

I have GROWN UP now.

lol

YR

Grown up...what a bore.  Jump in the pond with the dogs.  It is lots of fun. 

With a natural pool, there are no chemicals, filters are generally wash and reuse; most of the filtering is by plants.

The koi/goldfish only nibble a little.  Water shoes if you have issues with the stuff on the bottom.

Snakes....now that is an issue to watch for.  Only solution I have found so far is cats (ewww) and pellet gun.  I have heard ground up shells work too.  If you find a better solution (no chemicals), please let me know.

I love my pool. Today it was 34 degrees 42 with the humidity factored in.  We all jumped in the pool had a swim and got out.  Cooled off, refreshed and revitalized.  I'll risk dying from chlorine to feel the way I feel when I get out. 

I have to chime in here, If you take proper care of your pool, there shouldn't be any smell or burning or anything like that. Any chlorine smell from a pool is an indication that there are contaminates in the water and something is off, same with the burning. As long as you check your CYA levels (stabilizer) and keep your chlorine levels corresponding to that, ph 7.5/7.8 (poolcalculator.com) and no Borax your dog/kids/you should be fine. I always rinse my dog after any swim. If you need to learn more about proper pool chemistry, head over to troublefreepool forum. The only other recommendation I have is to put a sock on the skimmer basket to collect the hair, so it doesn't get to the filter, because it is a pain to clean. Re: bathing suits, my kids have had the same bathing suit for over 6 years and still looks like new, too bad they outgrew it...used several times a day, never rinsed, often just thrown on the pool deck in a pile...that said, they never swim in any public pools.