Something needed to rescue animals from my ponds

[ZEROPILOT]

What are y'all using to rescue animals that have fallen into your ponds?
Two of my ponds are designed in a way that make it impossible for anything like a cat or a rat or lizard. Etc to be able to get out on its own.
For right now. I have a length of wooden post in each side. These don't look very good.

 

[HARO]

HOO, BOY! That would be one hard pond to get out of! Basically, there are two ways to accomplish what you want; a sloping beach, or a plank with one end on the edge of the pond and the other floating IN the water. Obviously, the first is not an option in this case.
John

 

[j.w]

Floating platform and a step down under water attached together made to stay at side of pond. Or what about a wide strip of plastic lattice type product or something similar. Or..................excuse me I got carried away,lol!

 

[TheFishGuy]

I like JW’s idea. They make some ramps like that for turtles that might also work.

 

[Jerri]

What are y'all using to rescue animals that have fallen into your ponds?
Two of my ponds are designed in a way that make it impossible for anything like a cat or a rat or lizard. Etc to be able to get out on its own.
For right now. I have a length of wooden post in each side. These don't look very good.

 

[Jerri]

What are y'all using to rescue animals that have fallen into your ponds?
Two of my ponds are designed in a way that make it impossible for anything like a cat or a rat or lizard. Etc to be able to get out on its own.
For right now. I have a length of wooden post in each side. These don't look very good.

Why not have a stack of slate stones inside or rocks next to an edge. Remove the metal roofing, it is unappealing and replace with rocks or get pieces of styrofoam, rip up and caulk together - spray paint them in random earth tones with styrofoam paints. I bought the rocks on a 12x12 netting tiles and cemented around the outside of an above ground portion of my pond systems. And then grouted them. The more natural you can make it, the more you’ll love to sit, watch it, and decompress.

 

[rubyduby]

Floating platform and a step down under water attached together made to stay at side of pond. Or what about a wide strip of plastic lattice type product or something similar. Or..................excuse me I got carried away,lol!

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That was so nice of you to find all of these j.w. Such an important issue considering the shape and depth of the pond...

 

[Arbuthnot]

Be careful. A good way OUT of the pond is also a good way IN. Raccoons can’t jump in a pond - they must walk in. But when they get there, boy do they wreck things.

 

[j.w]

That was so nice of you to find all of these j.w. Such an important issue considering the shape and depth of the pond...

Thanks and I would just hate to see anything fall in there and drown. I'm always looking for ways to save critters. I thought I was the only nut in our hood as when I walk and see a worm on the road I pick and toss to the grass. One day a woman saw me doing this and said, "Good to see someone else who helps out the creatures in harms way".
I was happy to meet another nut

 

[rubyduby]

Wouldn't it be a wonderful world if everyone was as sensitive to life...I never thought I would actually save a spider in my home and now I even go through great lengths to put them outside....I can't kill anything....

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Be careful. A good way OUT of the pond is also a good way IN. Raccoons can’t jump in a pond - they must walk in. But when they get there, boy do they wreck things.

I've had plenty of battles with them previously

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I've got strip of medium plastic mesh screwed onto the edges and dangling in the water so that most animals would be able to get out.
My issue has been like 99% lizards. But since all of them have been without tails. I think it's likely that a feral cat or two has been dropping them in there

 

[GBBUDD]

what kind of animal needs rescuing? a limb from a tree but one that's fairly long and beefy

 

[YShahar]

In my old pond (now decommissioned) I had a problem with hedgehogs and land tortoises falling in. The pond had a beach for them to crawl out on, but some still ended up drowning. So I put a couple of thick branches in that crossed the deepest part just below the water level and came out of the water at the beach. This allowed anyone falling in to climb up on the branch and make his or her way toward safety. I'll definitely be doing the same thing for the new pond.

Hedgehogs, in particular, seem to get into trouble. Even buckets left out in the rain can be a safety hazard for them, as they fall in and can't get back out.

 

[addy1]

I built turtle ramps a bit of the green matala foam hanging like a shelf. Since installing I have not found any dead turtles. so if they are falling in they are getting out.