My Kids Play for Hours in This Pool Made for Dogs
My Kids Play for Hours in This Pool Made for Dogs Jasonwell Aug 25·3 min read

Jasonwell Dog Pool

I have a thoughtful, child-free friend who was once the pets editor at a magazine, and would sometimes give unused pet products, like stuffed toys or tulle tutus, to my kids as gifts. (My youngest daughter still wears the latter.) While I cherish my friend’s generosity, I sometimes questioned her thought process: “Should I be a little offended that you see no distinction between my human children and actual animals?”

My thinking abruptly shifted last summer, when, in a pinch, I realized I was willing to blur those lines myself. Amid a jag of 90-degree days, I stumbled upon a photo in another friend’s Instagram Story that showed his two kids splashing around in a small pool within his city backyard. I asked where he got it, and the pool, he told me, was meant for bathing dogs. In what felt like an instant, I went from a somewhat haughty “my kids are human” to “what’s the difference between these beasts and mine?”

I ordered one, and it arrived on a blazing hot day. Unlike the previous kiddie pool we owned — a flimsy blow-up number that my husband and I took turns puffing into until one of us passed out — the setup for this was pretty effortless. It comes in a plastic pouch and unfolds like an accordion. The pool is sold in several sizes, meant for dog breeds from teacup Yorkies to Great Danes. I opted for the 63-inch XXL, which runs a foot high and sprawls across most of my mini backyard patio, but offers a little more room for the girls (who, at ages 3, 4, and 8, range in size from pug to pit bull).
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