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06-15-2016, 08:56 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
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| Summer is coming! Should I get a kiddie pool? Summer is right around the corner. I'm excited for our first summer in our new home. Since our home has more yard space, I think this is the year I'll get Kaji a little kid pool. Any advice? I'd prefer domething that I can easily store when not in use. Something not too big since Kaji is well under a foot tall. Please send your pictures, recommendations, and advice my way.
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06-15-2016, 05:30 PM | #2 |
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| I set up an entire water park in my yard during the HOT summer months...drug stuff out this week as temps are in 90's now...I use the little plastic kiddie pools....my dogs grab the rubber inflatable pools and try to relocate them around the yard and of course they put holes in them! They dont fool with the hard plastic ones....I have 3 of the little ones for the 3-8lb dogs....I got the larger ones for my larger yorkies....they LOVE running right thru the pools as they tear around the yard, thru the pool, out the other side, around the yard, thru the water sprinkler, I bought 3 different kinds of water sprinklers that fling water all over every where, down the water slide (slip-n-slide) and back around again! I had a small beach ball....that lasted about 20 minutes, until the "cows" got ahold of it and punctured it.....the little ones couldnt get it in their mouths and they had a ball as it flipped all over the kiddie pool and grassy back yard.... Last edited by Yorkiemom1; 06-15-2016 at 05:31 PM. |
06-15-2016, 09:45 PM | #3 | |
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06-15-2016, 10:54 PM | #4 |
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| I watch our water restrictions very carefully and if they limit us to every other day or even/odd day water cycling, that is when I "do" the water park for the dogs, and I kill two birds with one stone.....watering the grass and trees with the water "events" during their play time, so nothing is wasted! I also have a couple of small plastic fish ponds I bought at Home Depot, but rather than filling the pond tub up with water, I stacked large stones in them so the water comes down the little fall and them splashes over the rocks and it is then recirculated back up and falls down over the rocks...Instead of recirculating 40 gallons of water, with the large rocks in the "catch pond", it only uses maybe 4-6 gallons of water that keeps recirculating and splashing down over the rocks...the larger dogs will actually lay on the level ledge of the large rocks and enjoy the water splashing down over the rocks and them! |
06-16-2016, 04:52 AM | #5 |
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| Cody at 4 yo was introduced to pools and swimming, his first introduction was at my friends in ground pool, I got him a size large round kiddie pool last year soon after our pool invite, his reaction was like WTH. Last fall I found this one, this pool my now passed girls LOVED, my smallest could swim it it, she be in it all day, I called her my little water buffalo. I have not yet set the BIG pool for Cody I PRAY I do not get another WTH look from him lol.the puppy pit bull will not be sharing Codys pool lol
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06-16-2016, 01:27 PM | #6 | |
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06-16-2016, 04:33 PM | #7 |
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| I bought Buddybear one of the small blue hard plastic ones a couple of weeks ago. He has 3 water safe toys I tossed in.....he would walk around the edges biting at the pool, mind you I only put a couple of inches of water in it. Finally he got in long enough to pull one of the toys out. He's not a water dog apparently but I do hope, it might take all summer, that he will eventually enjoy it.
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06-17-2016, 04:22 AM | #8 |
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| I got a tiny inflatable kiddie pool for mine. They weren't sure at first but now they like jumping in and out of it I also got them life jackets to take them in my real pool. Haven't done that yet but I'm excited for it. My last Yorkie didn't really like the pool so I'm hoping these two do! |
06-17-2016, 07:35 AM | #9 | ||
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06-17-2016, 07:43 AM | #10 |
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| I was thinking the same thing!!! I want to get a small kiddie pool A few summers past we rented a house with a pool for a summer vacation. Ace (my granddog) loved it... so much so we had a hard time keeping him out of the water. We kept the two yorkies in vest at all times and had to watch them like a hawk It was soooo much fun.
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06-17-2016, 10:57 PM | #11 |
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| I saw some inflatable pools at Walmart and Kmart. One of them actually looked big enough for Uni to swim in with her long ass legs. We're thinking about it, but it would have to go on our roof bc our backyard is too small! Too bad dogs aren't allowed in the community pool.
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06-19-2016, 07:10 PM | #12 | |
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06-20-2016, 07:40 AM | #13 |
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| Yorkiemom1.....I wish you can post a pic of the fish pond and rocks....bc I don't get it...LOL....sorry....is that almost a waterfall???????......
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06-20-2016, 08:00 AM | #14 |
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| I am doing good to even write on this forum, let alone post pics!!! But yes, I just stacked boulders in the pond collection tub part, which already had a "pile of rocks with a waterfall" that emptied into the pond....so the pond area has large boulders in it and the water just splashed down, around, and over the bolders, gathers in the pond area so it can be recirculated back up to tumble down the rock waterfall and back into the pond. The dogs like to lay on the rock ledge and let the water fall down on and around them...it is not a massive fall, only like a water hose on medium, streaming down over the rocks........ Last edited by Yorkiemom1; 06-20-2016 at 08:01 AM. |
06-23-2016, 09:29 AM | #15 | |
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