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If you take your pup to a pool I would wash him, there is chlorine added to pool water, years ago I read chlorine is not good for furbabies hair or skin and and should be bathed afterwards. BEACH if it's salt water, salt dries skin also bath afterwards to remove salt. Lakes and ponds, depends on the water quality, example: my now passed pups would swim in a lake that had a sandy beach, water was clean / clear, no bath needed, sometimes they would swim in an area that had muddy ground, their paddling around would stir up the mud, I washed them to remove any mud that could have gotten on them. Last summer I took Cody to a state park lake, the water had a lot of silk and very murky bottom which stirred up a lot of slimy water. He got a GOOD bath when we came home. I use HyLyt shampoo and conditioner recommended to me by my vet due to Cody's allergies, you can bathe dogs everyday causing no damage to skin. Always better to be safe then sorry and bathe after swimming in any kind of water providing you use a good quality non skin drying shampoo.