our best is when we had a skunk in the pool... it's an inground with just ladders, no stairs, so he fell in swam around a few times trying to get out.. rested in the skimmer opening, and tried again several times all day. i was at work when my mom called to tell me...
at one point he swam out of the skimmer & caught the stringline on one of the kids floats, & towed it around the pool a few times... mom got video, and we sure laughed at it.. i don't know what happened to it though...
dh used the hand skimmer to get the skunk out... just tossed him from the watet into the trees... managed not to get sprayed somehow...