"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
> "Nancy Young" > wrote in news:e69pdt$5mc$1
> @news.monmouth.com:
>
>> Oh, no, she stays inside. Only outside occasionally when she can
>> be watched. No, once in a while my pool presents me with some
>> dead rodent or bird. Or frog. Unfortunate.
>>
>> nancy
>
>
> nancy,
>
> Leave a boogie-board half in and half out of the water by the stairs.
> Eventually the frogs and critters will find their way there and can save
> themselves. Give it a try.
>
> In the beginning, with the pool system set to auto-on in the morning, I'd
> come down to the pool to clean the skimmer and there'd be a handful or
> more of frogs spinning around yelling "Help us Andy!!!" No auto-on after
> that.
>
> Andy

I forgot to mention in my list of critters in our pool -- a groundhog.
We did put a board for stairs for them -- it may have cut down, but not so
you'd notice, because it was a usual occurrence.
DH would pick out and strain out the little froggies/babies and take them
down to the creek.
Cute.
Dee Dee