WEST READING, Pa. \u2013 Monday was the last day of the pool season for the West Reading Pool, but it was the first and only day for dogs to take a dip.<\/p>\n
“The dogs love it. It’s a great way to end the summer,” said Marlelle Fromuth, from West Reading.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Every year, for just $10, owners can jump in the water with their four-legged friends.<\/p>\n
Half of the proceeds benefit the local efforts of Humane Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
“It’s a lot of fun. And raising the money for a local shelter is always great,” said Kim Lennox, from West Reading.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s Jennifer Stoltzfoos’ second year bringing her dog Mabel.<\/p>\n
She says Mabel loves getting the chance to run around off leash.<\/p>\n
“There aren’t a lot of places, so we’re really lucky that West Reading has pool time for the pups,” said Stoltzfoos.<\/p>\n
Fromuth’s dog Ava is turning 14 years old.<\/p>\n
“And she’s been enjoying it. Oh, I think probably close to 14 years,” Fromuth said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fromuth says for Ava, it’s never gotten old. Even after all these years, it’s still her favorite way to end summer.<\/p>\n
“Just anytime you’re able to be outside and enjoying yourself, dogs are great. They make you happy,” Fromuth said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Letting them run around and get wet is a great way to make your dog happy, too.<\/p>\n
“It’s good for their mental well-being, their health, and also it’s just good to see other doggos and hopefully make some friends in the process,” Stoltzfoos said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST READING, Pa. \u2013 Monday was the last day of the pool season for the West Reading Pool,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5922,5705,117584,9356,128,130,129,97834,707],"class_list":["post-281244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-animal-shelter","tag-charity","tag-dog-swimming","tag-dogs","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-swimming-pool","tag-west-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}