To think having dogs in Saltdean lido is utterly disgusting?

Hardly "on the weekends" (when did we start saying that in this country?). I thought you were complaining that it was every weekend and putting you off having a swim when you were able to get there. It's a handful of weekends over a very specific time of the year. It's well publicised so no one is going to unknowingly get into a pool full of dogs. Likewise, kids will be back at school. I'm surprised though that it's popular in a place where you can go swimming with your dog in the sea for free.

@Greenbananasoup people on Mumsnet are so embarrassing that jump onto a thread frothing at the mouth at how dirty and disgusting something is without bothering to look at half the facts.

All the people on here deciding it's every weekend, children will be swimming with the dogs. The dogs will be covered in worms, parasites and go knows what else.

Posters have clearly said the pool is a charity, they raise money at the end of the year once it is closed to keep it running. The water is drained for the winter, the pool cleaned and refilled and back open for May. But then the people on here wouldn't be able to clutch at their pearls and scream about the disgusting dogs harming their precious children when the likelihood is most people have never heard of this pool and will never go there- but we must shut it down to save the children.

Tbh, not for me, and I’m a dog lover, but people are pretty disgusting too. There are signs up saying to shower before you get in a pool, but I reckon most people just take their dirty sweaty bodies straight into the pool, and some have a pee in there too. So equally disgusting.

My lab'd love this, not sure if I'd actually get in the water though. DH would and I'd stay poolside and watch them play.

You think that most people scrub their arseholes spotless before they get in a pool?

It’s my happy place. They’ve just opened the cafe in the beautiful Art Deco lido building as well. It’s fabulous.

Have you actually read the details of this? As many have stated the pool is closed to the public at this point and it is just open for the dog swims then the pool is shut down for the winter. Perhaps check your facts out? You don't have to go, either...

LMAO!

Sounds like your dog lives the life of a prince!

Because if they actually read the facts they wouldn't have anything to froth over would theyOP has done a good job, post something, leave out the facts and relevant details then wind them up and watch them go

OP you are being disingenuous in your selective posting!

Saltdean is famous for this within the dog owner community

THIS IS ONLY AT THE END OF THE SWIMMING SEASON FOR 4 WEEKENDS AND THE POOL IS THEN DRAINED AND CLEANED

The tickets to allow 'humans' to swim too are mostly for the owners who enjoy swimming with their much loved pets.

Please don't spread misinformation about a Lido that has already been saved once

Sadly I think this is the way of the world these days! People can start any kind of spat on the basis of knowing nothing and not caring to try to learn.

I'd go too.

I think you've just put me off swimming for life!

This!!

The same filtering and chlorination systems that deal with all the snot, piss, shit, earwax, saliva and dirt from you and your children will also deal with anything a dog can throw into the mix, so hygiene isn’t a problem here.

Sounds like a really good way for them to extend the profitability of the season and keep the place running. No problem if it’s not your thing; you don’t have to go during those sessions.

As a PP has pointed out it is after the human season and makes a lot of money for the Lido. If it helps to keep the Lido running

I'd love to just go sit and watch all the fun but you have to take a dog with you and I don't have one

Yes I know. I haven’t said otherwise, the poster I was correcting said no humans are allowed in the water. Dog owners are in fact humans and they are allowed in the water.

I wouldn't want to go in, but at end of season when there's no general public sessions and everything is thoroughly cleaned out before the next season, it's not going to affect the general public.

I wouldn't have thought that the dog hair shed would be much good for the filtration systems though.

I swim at a managed lake for water sports. I'm clearly no germaphobe when I'm opting to swim with geese, swans and all the other wildlife on site, but when I had a rest in the shallows recently, the oily film of dog hair that accumulated near the entry point was rather gross. Fortunately the dogs don't tend to swim out very far to affect the rest of the lake and it's only a limited zone that they affect.

TBH I'd rather dogs weren't there or at least had a seperate zone out of the way. It's annoying trying to access the exit point trying to work out how to swim past a hyper excited dog playing ball. There are often reminders to dog owners about not obstructing the area.

Why are people totally ignoring the facts? These sessions are for dogs and their owners only - they sound great, and if I lived nearby I would take my water loving labradors there. You don't like dogs - no problem, you can't go in anyway.

The dog month takes place after the pool has closed for the season. It's then drained, cleaned, and refilled in time for the next season. The Lido is open until September 12 and then closes for public swimming. Just doggies and their owners until the next season. No dogless humans are allowed during that time.

That's what I was thinking. Fur will kill the filters surely? Waiting for someone to come along and say most humans have more hair and pubes than a dog now......🤣

I'd not get in my dogs bathwater unless you paid me very well and i disinfected myself aftrwards with a plug in each orifice. But then I'd keep my mouth firmly shut. I love her like a sibling but she walks bear foot, eats her own vomit and other animals shit and her own shit. She loves rolling in fox and horse shit too. So whos up for bathing with her? Don't all rush at once. She also eats spiders and sometimes has slugs caught in her long fur. Yum yum!

I don't care how your dog is cleaner and less fuzzy than most humans. My dog is not uniquely dirty

Same here.

Think of all the people who don't wash properly after bowel movements. Or those who don't bathe daily or who pee in the pool.

Give me the dogs any day.

I don't see any issue, they will obviously make sure it is clean enough for people to use when they do all of the checks they have to do each day to test the water. Humans are more gross than dogs a log of the time, especially the rancid men who walk out of the sauna drenched in sweat and throw themselves straight into the pool at my health club...I would far rather swim with my dogs.

I joined an elderly arthritic dog having a soak in a natural hot spring in California, years ago. The dog’s face as she soaked up the warmth on her old bones. Beautiful.

I bet that if they did half price swims for actual people in September they would make more money than swimming for dogs.

They just need to advertise it.

I know at least 140 adults that would go but they can't afford the mid summer season prices.

I love dogs but after seeing my mums doggos rolling around in fox poo and god knows what else, I’m not sure I’d want to go swimming in a pool with them.