Ducks in pools

[HopperFan]

For de record. Yes… I’ve been in kids sports and competitive outdoors and indoors from 6 and up to junior olympics including WP. I was an Aquatics director at a college for a couple of years with an outdoor and indoor pool. I have my bio degree, and aquatics expertise. I have three kids with “experience as watching my kids hop in a pool” whatever that means. Whole family has dive certs in just about everything including expert, rescue, and dive master. Doing research and rescue dives in the upper Midwest. And for an occupation build water and wastewater treatment plants for small communities and very large municipalities for over 30 years. So yah… I may know a thing about bacteria and viruses. Wanna swim in duck poop and turn a blind okay. But they swim in the waste water plants raw poop tanks… yes… they do. They eat the corn you don’t fully digest. Then, they swim back from the WDW WWTP and swim in your pool with all that plant poop on their sweet and kind little feathers. They are water rats. Nothing more

Ahhh the downside of it being within your professional knowledge. I get that. My FIL was a high official with USDA and was in charge of things like botulism investigations, inspections and closing of many food processing plants (yeah that once got their family moved for their safety), expert in processes ............. that knowledge and expertise told us ...

NEVER eat at a buffet!!! Impossible to keep that food safe. Trust no one.

NEVER eat at a salad bar!!! Only takes minutes to make that a bacteria bar.

DO NOT eat processed meats; hot dogs, lunch meat etc. What they put in that food would turn you green.

DO NOT EAT RAW or RARE foods ~ bye bye sushi.

AND the list goes on.

I think given your background it would be hard to share with the ducks and I would plan my vacations around it. Luckily there is so much to do at Disney that pools are def not a priority for us. I don't think we swam at a Disney hotels since COVID.

PS When you said "water rats" the first thing that hit my brain was children. I think they are the bigger danger since they are always in the pools, ducks not so much.

 

[Mle8308]

Even if they somehow magically kept the ducks out of resort pools, they are still letting small petri dishes with legs into them, and you don't want to know where they've been, what they've been putting in their mouths, what comes out at the other end, and what they've been doing in general.

I really don't mean to be rude but if this genuinely bothers you this much, you would probably be better off not ever getting into a public pool, ever. Or just going to Florida. You probably sit in worse on the plane ride down, unless you're getting on it like Detective Adrian Monk.

Let's not even start with public hot tubs!

 

[matt and beth]

Even if they somehow magically kept the ducks out of resort pools, they are still letting small petri dishes with legs into them, and you don't want to know where they've been, what they've been putting in their mouths, what comes out at the other end, and what they've been doing in general.

I really don't mean to be rude but if this genuinely bothers you this much, you would probably be better off not ever getting into a public pool, ever. Or just going to Florida. You probably sit in worse on the plane ride down, unless you're getting on it like Detective Adrian Monk.

Even if they somehow magically kept the ducks out of resort pools, they are still letting small petri dishes with legs into them, and you don't want to know where they've been, what they've been putting in their mouths, what comes out at the other end, and what they've been doing in general.

I really don't mean to be rude but if this genuinely bothers you this much, you would probably be better off not ever getting into a public pool, ever. Or just going to Florida. You probably sit in worse on the plane ride down, unless you're getting on it

 

[SL6827]

These ducks deserve a lifetime ban from Disney property ASAP!

 

[loves to dive]

As others have said, they are protected at WDW and people feeding them all the time doesn't help. I had a ground floor room at Dolphin once that was facing the pool. I was sitting out on my patio, minding my own business eating my breakfast. A family of ducks came to visit, I politely asked them to leave since, no, I wasn't sharing my breakfast with them. I had left my sliding door open a tad since I have a fear of getting locked out. The ducks just looked at me, told me how they felt about me not sharing my breakfast and decided I was being rude so must share my room instead. Inside all of them marched, just like they belonged there. Well, poop I thought, what do I do now. While I sat there thinking about how to evict said visitors without any of them flying around (I have a huge fear of birds flying into my hair, blame my 5 older brothers who liked to put things like bugs in my hair), they decided they didn't like the room and marched out. Needless to say, if I have a ground floor room and see a duck family approaching now, I go into said room and shut the door. Off topic but I've also had lizards visit me in my room at Disney, which is no big deal since I'm not afraid of them so if I can catch them I do and release them back outside. Of course, like just about everyone else I've also had the odd roach or palmetto bug as well. Hate the palmetto bugs, who decided it was a good thing to make roaches fly?

 

[WinterSolider]

Never seen this in probably 100 trips since 1992. I’ve seen it because of human waste in the pool. Never from ducks.

Just because you've never seen it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

 

[Best Aunt]

Many years ago, we were staying at BCV. One of my young nieces refused to swim in the BCV pool because of the ducks. They ended up swimming at the BC quiet pool. (I'm not complaining, I'm just recalling. I wasn't swimming anyway so I didn't really care which pool my nieces and their parents chose to use.)

 

[maxiesmom]

I have to ask, do none of you swim in lakes or in the ocean????? Do you only swim in sanitized bodies of water??? As a lifelong Michigander all of this ruckus makes me chuckle. Nothing like having fish nibble on your toes as you are swimming. And watching ducks and other birds land and take off. Not to mention frogs....

 

[disneydreamer1980]

We live near the Chesapeake bay, the ocean and many different rivers, all of which we swim in every summer. There are ducks, seagulls and all kinds of other birds and animals in and out of the water. We’re all still in great health. I gotta say though, when I first saw the title of this thread I thought he was talking about the ducky races they do in the pools lol.



Ducks in the pool at WL!

 

[Kooks and Bay Bay]

I have to ask, do none of you swim in lakes or in the ocean????? Do you only swim in sanitized bodies of water??? As a lifelong Michigander all of this ruckus makes me chuckle. Nothing like having fish nibble on your toes as you are swimming. And watching ducks and other birds land and take off. Not to mention frogs....

That's what I'm saying!
And Ironically OP is from Michigan.

 

[matt and beth]

That's what I'm saying!
And Ironically OP is from Michigan.

Because this is what I see .

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wastewater/comments/fe6l9m/ducks_are_part_of_wastewater_processing

 

[Pinnochio]

Jeopardy Category: Florida Visitor Complaints

$200 What do you mean there are gators in the water
$400 OMG! Palmetto Bugs - They fly!!
$600 Ducks in pools

I'll take Ducks in pools for $600....and the answer is, The Daily Duckble.

 

[mom2rtk]

I have to ask, do none of you swim in lakes or in the ocean????? Do you only swim in sanitized bodies of water??? As a lifelong Michigander all of this ruckus makes me chuckle. Nothing like having fish nibble on your toes as you are swimming. And watching ducks and other birds land and take off. Not to mention frogs....

And without chlorine!

 

[HopperFan]

And without chlorine!

Yeah and I think about all those ducks and critters that might take those sunrise swims while the pools are empty. Then the CMs arrive and if the chemicals check out, pool is open for business, even after wildlife have enjoyed a couple hours of leisurely swimming.

 

[georgina]

I was at SSR a few weeks ago. There were a few ducks in the Paddock pool for a bit, but they shut it down because a kid pooped in the pool. Can we ban kids? (Just kidding of course but it is annoying when the pool is shut down for emergency cleaning)

 

[gottalovepluto]

... I had left my sliding door open a tad since I have a fear of getting locked out.

But snakes!!! I haven’t seen a gator yet at Disney but I’ve seen a snake on hotel grounds…

 

[David Gardner]

Both Nine Dragons and Morimoto's serve Peking Duck. Just sayin'.