Pool Safety Tips- FOR PETS!

Although it is very important to ensure that your children are safe around your pool, oftentimes we forget to think about the safety of our pets!  Here are some easy pet-safety ideas to ensure that your "four-legged friends" are just as safe around your pool as you are! 

• Fences - Installing a fence around your pool will help to a certain degree, and it will definitely help keep other roaming animals out of your pool. However, fences are only useful to your pets if they are not allowed to run around inside of them. If this is the case, you will have to take other safety measures to protect them. 
• Pool Alarms - Whenever the water is disturbed, an alarm will sound, either at the surface or below. They can sell from about $60 up to $700.
  Floating pool alarms will float in your pool and will sound off if the surface of the water is disturbed. You can find one with adjustable sensitivity for pool features such as waterfalls or fountains.
  Another option for a pool alarm is an invisible fence. It surrounds your pool with a beam of light that will sound an alarm if the beam is disturbed. This is ideal for an in-ground pool. And great for kids as well as pets! 
• Skamper-RampR - The Skamper-RampR is designed to hook onto a deck or sidewall of a pool so animals trapped in a pool can safely climb out. It attaches either by drilling holes in your deck or by being attached to a ladder. Because the ramp sits at eye level, it is easy for all animals to see if they become trapped in your pool. It is also white because that is the only color that all animals can see. The Skamper-RampR is especially handy when no one is around to hear an alarm go off.
  
  
  There are other swimming pool dangers to your pet in addition to drowning. If they are in the cold water too long, they can develop hypothermia. Also, the chlorine in a pool will irritate your pet's eyes or make them sick if they drink the water. Use caution whenever your pets are around a pool.

Be sure to use the pool safely this summer- not only for your family, but for your pets, as well!