To think having dogs in Saltdean lido is utterly disgusting?

They're talking about the dog's owners. Owners can get in the pool with their dogs with a human swim ticket, and most do, in order to keep Fido safe. But it's not a public session - the dog month takes place after the Lido has shut to the public for the season - and the humans don't do much swimming. They're looking after the dogs. The dog swims are not open to the general public, so you can't just decide you want to swim with dogs and go and do lengths with them around. To get in the pool, you must be bringing a dog.

The general public can get a spectator, non-swim ticket.

You sound like all the snobby 19th c. surgeons who mocked Lister for insisting on weak carbolic hand washes for surgical staff, carbolic acid baths for the instruments and solutions of carbolic acid spray to reduce the level of germs in the air around the patient. They said he was afraid of germs and that his antiseptic system was too excessive and unnecessarily complicated.

🤢 I’m never going in a pool again. ( runs to shower in Dettol)

I call BS.Any local would know the lido is closed in the autumn.

I can’t tell if people are just being deliberately obtuse to hate on dogs here?

It’s only the final weekends of the season. It’s only open to dogs and their owners. There are no “regular” lido sessions in between. It helps raise money to keep it affordable for humans during the summer. Afterwards the pool is drained, cleaned and closed until the summer season.

And as someone who has been I am not sure if I’d go again. I got dog hairs in all the wrong places 😬

At first, it sounds weird until you actually read the fact (have you bothered to do that OP?) and realise it's a few sessions at end of season when the general public wouldn't be allowed in anyway. Dog owners can choose whether to go in or not. They're not foisting "dog infested waters" on the general public.

I've just looked at the website, Saltdean is chlorinated.

Chlorine levels are dropped slightly for the dog sessions. The pool remained open over the winter last year, just for a short session at weekends, with the pool heated to a lower temperature.

Pools are constantly filtered and have chemicals added to make them safe to use. Anyone with an outdoor pool which they close in the winter will know that when you take the cover off in spring the water will be green. You don't have to empty the pool to clean the water, you add chemicals which makes algae sink to the bottom where it can be hoovered up. Swimming pool chemistry is complicated.

Isn't it gorgeous.

Also - what a beautiful pool! I had no idea!

Aren't these sessions near the end of the season when Lidos get very quiet anyway? Our local one in Penzance runs special dog sessions similarly at the end of the season. The pool is then emptied and cleaned out anyway, and refilled. We took our old dog there who usually loved water and he was so freaked at the number of humans in wet suits in the pool alongside their pets that he refused to enter the water!

It's a great idea. Presumably they've looked at numbers and realised they could get an injection of ticket sales at a quiet time.

Have you ever seen a dog have a shit? They sniff a spot, turn around it several times and then squat. If they try that in a pool they'll drown!

Far too much of a reasonable response for mumsnet.

You're ruining their fun frothing. They've still got lots of stats about going blind from dog poo and similar things to share. 😂

Dear god, don’t come on here with the actual facts and being all sensible…..what has MN come to!

Don’t you know this is clearly another step in Devildogs master plan to take over the entire universe…..now, must go, my dog needs me to put his fan on so he keeps cool while he is reclining on the sofa (this bit is actually true!)

They do it at the end of the season and the drain and clean the pool afterwards

It really does kill everything . One mouthful of seawater can have you in bed or on a toilet for days crusty eye infections and all sorts it is such a risk there is more chance of flesh burrowing of your worms in the sea than a chlorinated swimming pool. If someone is paying money to let their dog swim they are going to have their dogs vaccinated and wormed.

Again, they do this at the end of the season and they drain and clean the pool afterwards. Human dog owners can swim with their dog if they choose to, no other humans are allowed into the pool during the dog swims or afterwards until it's been thoroughly cleaned.

Why are people focusing on the wee? It's the muck and all the other stuff they have on them, and the hair floating around - it's just disgusting on so many levels.

As much as I feel sorry for people who go about their life being scared of germs, they do sound funny when they bring their ridiculousness to these threads. I feel sorry for their children because I bet they're not allowed to play in dirt in case of going blind from dog poo or something they read happening extremely rarely. Poor kids.

Rank.

Not just the weeing in the pool but what if they 💩💩💩 in it? At least children not toilet trained have a swimming nappy on.

I would have expected a separate pool for dogs. A better idea would be a separate area where staff look after them. They can make doggy friends while the owners go for a swim (without them).

Exactly

Nothing mumsnet loves more than a good froth about dogs

You're not allowed into the pool at a dog swim unless you have a dog, anyway. Those weekends, post-season, aren't for humans to swim, they're for people to look after their dogs in the water. So you couldn't go just because you fancy swimming with dogs.

I know someone that goes to this event with her dogs. It's an end of season thing before the big clean out.

What are you moaning about?

'There are people having some harmless fun that I personally don't approve of!"

Just...don't go. Meanwhile other people can enjoy themselves. See how that works?

It doesn't. I find it amusing how wound up people get. Just wondering the reason why

This is hilarious. It’s an end of season swim for dogs!

Why does my opinion bother you so?