The Ducks Have Returned :(

BewareOfThe Dog on 23/08/2024 - 18:29
Last edited 26/08/2024 - 23:17 by 1 other user

Further to a prior post, we have been free of ducks from our pool for several years now. A few weeks ago, we noticed that they have returned, and started aplashing around in the pool, leaving the usual filth around the pool, and no doubt in the pool.

We introduced Magnesium to the pool about the same time they 'moved on', but it was also during the really hot weather we experienced, where I assume nearby ponds/creeks etc dried up.

Now some have returned.

I read about a motion sensitive sprinkler system with quite a few positive reviews.

Any ideas, that are safe etc, that don't require a dog?

**********update 26/8*********
One thing I did not mention, is I have arthritis in my left hand, which is getting worse. I also had a car accident last year (I was not at fault)and I broke my right hand wrist, and a tendon was torn. This cost me a high paying job, as I rely on my right hand for typing, writing, using a mouse, plus i had constant medical appointments, rehab etc. As of today, it has now become a legal matter, for loss of income etc, so I may need to close this. I struggle to mow the lawn, use a hammer, use a screwdriver, use a pressure cleaner, let alone put the net cover on, as there like 40 pins that need to go in, then be tightened.

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Comments

  • Pecan on 23/08/2024 - 18:35
    +12

    Got a pool cover?

    • BewareOfThe Dog on 23/08/2024 - 18:53

      We have a pool net (similar), but painful to install.

      Even worse, our Zodiac Pool cleaner has died, but looking at Aipen, who also have aSolar powered pool skimmer.

      • Nugs on 24/08/2024 - 10:30
        +7

        no pool cover?
        how much water do you replace over summer?
        .

        • BewareOfThe Dog on 26/08/2024 - 18:19

          It's been good over the last few summers. We have rainwater tanks, which help, plus a drainpipe that goes into the pool.

  • spackbace on 23/08/2024 - 18:56
    +9

    That's ducked

  • Shoocat on 23/08/2024 - 19:01
    +3

    Giant inflatable crocodile? Scare them off!

    • BewareOfThe Dog on 23/08/2024 - 22:07

      Its on my mind.

    • Roary on 25/08/2024 - 00:21
      +1

      Hah no… My brothers neighbour also has a problem with ducks in his pool. He did buy a couple of about 7th inflatable crocodiles. The ducks didn't care and didn't go anywhere. Poor guy cops a lot of laughs from us!!

    • dojomojo on 25/08/2024 - 09:32

      Tried it, didn't work. Only thing that worked for us was a pool cover.

    • Chandler on 26/08/2024 - 11:04
      +4

      Giant inflatable crocodile?

  • c64 on 23/08/2024 - 19:19
    +25

    back fill the pool with dirt

  • Iwantthebestprice on 23/08/2024 - 19:25

    It’s their natural habitat, let them be at ☮️

    Or get a few dogs, that will do it.

    • BewareOfThe Dog on 23/08/2024 - 22:06

      And pick up all the dog pooh. No thanks. We have poodles across the road.

      • cadwalader on 24/08/2024 - 18:51
        +5

        Do you prefer dog poo in your yard or ducks in your pool?

      • OzzyOzbourne on 24/08/2024 - 20:33

        Only poohdles pooh

      • crentist on 25/08/2024 - 05:10
        +3

        Across the road? What do your neighbours dogs have to do with anything?

      • Lord Fart Bucket on 26/08/2024 - 13:13
        +1

        We have poodles across the road.

        Well, having your poodles across the road won't help. Put them in the backyard near the pool instead.

      • darkmoss on 26/08/2024 - 19:55

        why do your poodles live 'across the road'?

        • BewareOfThe Dog on 26/08/2024 - 22:59
          -1

          They're not mine, fortunately. They constantly yap.

      • figarow on 27/08/2024 - 07:43

        Christopher?

      • ssfps on 24/08/2024 - 23:56
        +14

        Given pop distribution here, it's a decent likelyhood your house is built over their natural habitat.

  • payton on 23/08/2024 - 19:29
    +10

    BewareOfTheDogDucks

  • AustriaBargain on 23/08/2024 - 19:30
    -3

    Get a dog.

    • us3rnam3tak3n on 26/08/2024 - 16:25
      +1

      Username does not check out

  • randomusername2017 on 23/08/2024 - 19:45
    +1

    Ducks can't read?

  • pinsanity on 23/08/2024 - 19:47
    +18

    Roast duck is delicious.

    • altomic on 24/08/2024 - 01:20
      +6

      Rabbit season

      • N15 on 26/08/2024 - 18:39
        +1

        Duck season!

  • Randxyz123 on 23/08/2024 - 19:50
    +10

    You could try wildlife services in your area? See if you can get someone professional to relocate them to a nearby pond or river. We had this issue as well. I didn’t really care. Just gotta pressure hose the pool area once a week. Pool cleaner and auto chemical thing takes care of the $hit in the pool.

    It is a body of water, I quite enjoyed seeing them land and chill in the pool every week.

  • Gunnar on 23/08/2024 - 20:38
    -5

    A cat? Preferably one that can actually hunt?

    • BewareOfThe Dog on 23/08/2024 - 22:08
      +9

      We have 2, but we keep them inside.

      • gyrex on 24/08/2024 - 08:35
        +23

        I know this is off-topic but thanks for being a responsible cat owner. Nothing irks me more than entitled women who think their cats should have the freedom to roam around neighbourhoods to kill all the local native fauna.

        • morse on 24/08/2024 - 08:38
          +9

          There are entitled men who do this too. I can think of two that I know personally off the top of my head.

        • TrustNoBody on 24/08/2024 - 20:02
          -1

          i’ve got 3 cats never go outside unless it’s out the back when i’m out there but my complex is like a feral cat colony. started 1 neighbour got a cat n the left it after moving and now there is at least 15 or more cats from that one cat breeding and the kittens are feral then breed ..my dogs go crazy when they fight or bred

        • ssfps on 24/08/2024 - 23:58
          +4

          It's absolutely disgusting that the 8 trees and 3 birds we left alive in our cities, after bulldozing 90% of the forest on this content, are being attacked by these selfish cat owners and their bloodthirsty minions. I'm simply flabbergasted.

          • beach bum on 25/08/2024 - 00:55
            -1

            @ssfps: Yes , they are miniature killing machines.
            Get yourself a decent slingshot and some lead sinkers and even the score
            on our continent .

          • CocaKoala on 25/08/2024 - 10:27
            +3

            @ssfps: Don't forget these feral cats shit and piss everywhere also.

            • TrustNoBody on 26/08/2024 - 07:52

              @CocaKoala: 100% i go out to my car n i see cat foot prints on the bonnet and then see cat piss spray on my tyres or back of the car ..

          • TrustNoBody on 26/08/2024 - 07:51

            @ssfps: i agree , i have 3 cats and they are 100% indoors , there needs to be a cat curfew ..

        • skidexa on 25/08/2024 - 09:06
          +2

          Why target women only???

          • THICKnSLOW on 25/08/2024 - 18:18
            -1

            @skidexa: Have you ever seen a cat man let his cat roam outside?

            Me neither, only hetero couples where the man has no say in anything and the woman runs the house shrugs

        • sackrace on 25/08/2024 - 21:38
          +1

          This shits me too. You bought a cat, not me, so why the hell are there cat turds and dead native birds in my yard.

  • Gunnar on 23/08/2024 - 20:41

    Also just remember this:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=125&v=ZyVF1glhAfk&feature=yout…

  • theHMASfriendship on 23/08/2024 - 20:59
    +8

    Duck’s sake not again.

    This would drive me quackers.

    • GordonD on 26/08/2024 - 19:21

      I used to have a duck couple visit my place. I called them Mr and Mrs Quackers.

  • pegaxs on 23/08/2024 - 22:22
    +8

    OMG! Now I want a pool so the ducks will come to my house!! I love ducks… we have local wood ducks the live at the side of the road… but I understand that they can make a hella mess with their arse blasters. And if these ducks here are anything to go by, cats don’t phase them either.

    Ducks are a pretty DGAF type of animal. They aren’t phased by much. You can make sure that there is nothing for them to eat laying around. Hit them with the hose spray. Generally make being there uncomfortable for them and they might leave.

    Our neighbourhood ducks tend to only be here for a few weeks/months and then move on. So they probably won’t move in like those arsehole Indian Myna birds do…

    • DashCam AKA Rolts on 23/08/2024 - 23:58
      +2

      Are you our Olympic Skateboarding gold medalist?

    • Baysew on 24/08/2024 - 18:03
      +5

      Hit them with the hose spray.

      Reply from Ducks: It would be like water off a duck's back

  • Guybrush57 on 23/08/2024 - 22:31
    +9

    Pic of these cute ducks in your pool please

  • bdl on 24/08/2024 - 00:14

    For Ducks' Sake

  • morse on 24/08/2024 - 08:36
    +2

    Pet python.

    But more seriously I wonder if it’s got to do with your pool cleaner breaking. They might not have liked the noise and movement of it.

  • saltypete on 24/08/2024 - 08:46

    I’ll believe times are actually tough in OZ when the feral ducks we see all over the place start to disappear…….

    • mapax on 24/08/2024 - 08:56

      Wild ducks or feral ducks? The ferals are regularly culled due to being non indigenous and particularly so at the moment with the avian flu being the current thing.

      • TrustNoBody on 24/08/2024 - 20:05

        what’s a feral duck ? a white one someone has dumped at the pond

        • mapax on 24/08/2024 - 21:48
          +1

          They’re domestic ducks, can be other colours than just white but often white. Sometimes dumped or escaped, but other times illegally “agisted” in public parks with the owner planning on catching them at a later date when they have fattened up.

          • TrustNoBody on 25/08/2024 - 08:33

            @mapax: ok thanks ..i go to a “duck park “ regularly and every time i go there i can guarantee there’s a new duck that’s most likely been dumped but they won’t come anywhere near you even if you feed them ..
            i go to another park at georges hall nsw and it’s over run with ibis and when you go near there part omg the smell is putrid and it’s so messy where they live ..i wish the government did do the cull on them when they were talking about it 20 years ago but now they are protected

  • stickingly on 24/08/2024 - 09:43
    +1

    The ducks in my pool took no notice of the dog. She would bark at them and they would calmly swim to the other side, she'd run around and they would swim back. Repeat x1000. The cat had no interest in the ducks
    It was a game to them.

  • 82norm on 24/08/2024 - 09:46
    -1

    Air rifle.

  • spc12go on 24/08/2024 - 13:31
    +1

    Call National Park and Wild Life. They will send someone to catch them and set them into the wild.

    And hopefully they won’t return.

    • Poor Ass on 24/08/2024 - 21:30
      +4

      Hahahahahahaha

    • UFO on 25/08/2024 - 10:48

      ahahahahahahaha…. yep, they'll deploy a team to your house, 24/7 monitoring, a crack squad of professional duck relocators, to remove the problem and prevent them from coming back.

  • 2esc on 24/08/2024 - 13:51
    +2

    Ducks like pools and dams with not much vegetation around them as its harder for cats and foxs to hide waiting for a opportunity. My mum has a dam with 2 islands(3 house block size) where she has planted a large number of native trees and shrubs around over the last 30 years. The ducks might visit but they then sleep on the neighbouring farm dam (no trees) though i think they might nest in the box thorns sometimes on this farmers property.

  • Baysew on 24/08/2024 - 15:38
    +7

    Someone tell Tony Soprano.

    • Mikeer on 24/08/2024 - 18:01

      He was just sad to see them go

  • Kiro on 24/08/2024 - 15:54

    Means your water quality is more akin for ducks. Nuke it with chlorine or salt and presto they will go.

  • nobro25 on 24/08/2024 - 17:57
    +1

    Dinner for Peking Duck lovers sorted.

  • Charybdia on 24/08/2024 - 21:29

    There is a chemical available from some pool stores which makes the water much less pleasant for ducks, might be worth giving it a try.

    https://swimart.com.au/product/no-more-ducks/

  • CommuterPolluter on 24/08/2024 - 21:51
    +1

    It’s a duck. Eat them.

  • Alonzo on 24/08/2024 - 22:02

    A shanghai with clay projectiles

  • Aerith-Waifu on 25/08/2024 - 01:45
    +1

    Tell the Chinese Restaurant Owner next door!!!!! LOL

  • Bookiejim on 25/08/2024 - 02:11
    +1

    bikies

  • Typical16-bitEnjoyer on 25/08/2024 - 11:23
    +2

    Hey, I remember this episode of The Sopranos

  • payless69 on 25/08/2024 - 13:01
    +1

    New BBQ and a cookbook?

  • Choc0 on 25/08/2024 - 13:31

    Bring it up with your shrink at your next appointment Tony

  • CourtJesterau on 25/08/2024 - 15:07

    buy a gel blaster and your duck problem will be solved

    • bethepro on 25/08/2024 - 18:47

      hahahaahah

  • ddilrat on 26/08/2024 - 00:35
    +1

    Even a dog doesn't help in my experience. Ducks just gently float from side to side out of dogs reach. If your dog is willing to jump into the water, maybe a different story

    • BewareOfThe Dog on 26/08/2024 - 18:20

      We tried it before. It didn't work.

  • miicah on 26/08/2024 - 08:24

    Ask Tony Soprano what to do?

  • sirstiv on 26/08/2024 - 09:41
    -1

    Capture them all,
    Drive them 100km in random direction and release.

    I did this with persistant pigeons that kept coming back and making moaning sounds on my balcony.

    Worked. I relocated them and we all lived happily ever after

  • eek on 26/08/2024 - 09:42

    Perfect time for this

  • jugsy on 26/08/2024 - 11:30
    +2

    Cover the damn pool

    • darxtorm on 26/08/2024 - 14:27

      not sure why this isn't the top answer

    • BewareOfThe Dog on 26/08/2024 - 18:21
      -1

      We have a net, but it is a bit difficult to put on, especially when we use the pool quite a bit in summer.

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