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[Airic]

I currently have a Northern Water snake in my pond. Very neat looking snake. Worried me at first as I thought water moccasin till I looked it up. He's about 3" long and been in there for a couple months now. Earlier in the year I found hundreds of Mud Puppies all no more than a 1" long. Never seen these in the wild, only know of dissecting them in Biology class as a kid. I think they are still there but not seen them. The odd is that I don’t have one frog this year and not had any turtles. If I find a turtle and put him in do you think he will stay?

[Robyn]

The snake probably is eating your frogs! LOL

[koiguy1969]

turtles are dirty nasty disease carriers... thats all i'll say about it.

[MassKoi]

Dead bird.....2 years ago.

[Robyn]

Cannot comment on the pond side... but at my mothers house, she has an inground swimming pool. Weirdest so far? 1 dead deer. 1 LIVE bobcat (which ended up requiring the replacement of the entire liner after it tried to get out without using the stairs!). Yes... it is a large pool (38' x 42' kidney with a 10' deep end). LOL

[BBK]

Found a dead squirrel this spring. Poor thing probably didn't know the ice was only 1/4" thick on my heated pond.

[aviator79]

The girl I work with said she saw a chipmuch swimming around in her pool and went outside and rescued it, when she got home what was in her pool? the chipmunk dead.

[DrDave]

My 2 year old nephew, head first. fortunately, I was there to rescue him.

[duckyboy1975]

Dead rat...pretty gross

[Shaeward]

Two Boxer puppies and 2 adult Boxers. After 1 fall in each, all were much more careful around the edges.

I have another adult Boxer that I can't keep out of the pond! She's constantly climbing in on the plant shelf that I'm not utilizing yet. She loves to swim so I keep waiting on her to climb in and take off...

[poodles-ponds and gardens]

When I had my "kiddie pool" pond, I found a horse hair worm in it. I had never heard of them before. It looked like a strand of hair from a horses tail. When I went to net it out, it moved! Really quite creepy!

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[OntarioTodd]

Nothing too crazy (yet). I get a kick out of watching the water striders and other small insects that live on the water.

[leeannecastro]

My dog lays in the bog on hot days. Oh and I almost found myself in the pond yesterday. that was the closest call yet.

[DrDave]

It is 109 degrees in the shade here at 11:00.

[leeannecastro]

Yikes! We are in the 70's and 80's now.