To think having dogs in Saltdean lido is utterly disgusting?

[llamajohn]

They let dogs into the lido with people on weekends 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

https://www.saltdeanlido.co.uk/dogtember

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

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!)

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. 😂

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!

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.

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

Isn't it gorgeous.

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.

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 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 😬

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.