Pool Safety Ramp for Pets

Features

• Most pool safety ramps are made from polypropylene, a type of plastic that is durable, flexible and resistant to the chemicals often used in pools.
  
  

Installation

• Pool safety ramps are usually easy to install. The ramp attaches to a wall of the swimming pool with D-rings and extends into the water at all times.
  
  

Function

• The ramps are created to be non-slippery by the addition of textured holes. The safest pool ramps are manufactured solely in white, because all animals can see white in the daytime and at night.
  
  

Fun Fact

• Dogs need to be taught how to use pool safety ramps, but most other animals, including cats, ferrets, possums and snakes instinctively know how to use the ramp to escape a pool.
  
  

Prevention/Solution

• In addition to pool safety ramps, pet owners with a pool should consider fencing the pool and installing alarms that sound when something disturbs the surface of the water.