\u2018It\u2019s definitely a blue job\u2019<\/strong> Strom\u2019s husband suspected something was lodged in the skimmer and needed eyes on it. She balked immediately.<\/p>\n \u201cIt could be a snake or a spider,\u201d she protested, citing the couple\u2019s running household shorthand\u2014\u201dblue jobs\u201d and \u201cpink jobs,\u201d their tongue-in-cheek division of labor by gender. A skimmer inspection fell squarely in the blue column.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m gonna leave it there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n She didn\u2019t leave it there.<\/p>\n In a follow-up video, Strom approaches the skimmer with visible reluctance. What she finds is a baby bunny, motionless in the basket \u2014 its small form initially resembling the top of someone\u2019s head through the murky water.<\/p>\n \u201cThe skimmer mystery has been solved, and I can say it is not what I expected,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd I\u2019m kinda sad about it. I\u2019m not gonna lie.\u201d<\/p>\n Her husband, watching remotely, cycles through his own surprise. \u201cOh, that is not what I thought it was going to be. Maybe it\u2019s a skunk. Does it smell great?\u201d Told it\u2019s a bunny, he concedes without hesitation: \u201cBlue job. It\u2019s definitely a blue job, babe.\u201d<\/p>\n Wait, how did he know there was an animal in the pool skimmer if he was out golfing?<\/p>\n Her husband likely used an app on his phone. Services like PoolScout, CamerEye, MaiGuard, and Pool Angel monitor home swimming pools and send alerts if they detect a stuck animal.<\/p>\n \u201cIs that a crowning baby?!\u201d joked one person in the first video. Another person said, \u201cI am very concerned and creeped out.\u201d<\/p>\n In the second video, some had a bad feeling. \u201cThat\u2019s exactly what I thought it would be,\u201d said one commenter. A couple of people recommended a \u201ccritter ramp\u201d that would help animals out of the water, or getting netting put around the pool.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy did [her husband] wait till he was golfing for him to remember the skimmer?\u201d another person asked. Strom replied, \u201cHe saw the dogs going crazy around the skimmer on the cameras.\u201d<\/p>\n A common backyard heartbreak<\/strong> Baby rabbits, frogs, mice, and other small wildlife are regularly drawn<\/a> to backyard pools but don\u2019t know how to escape. With close to 10 million pools across the country, wildlife biologist Rich Mason estimates<\/a> the annual death toll reaches well into the millions. Mason, who invented a floating escape ramp after a friend\u2019s pool killed dozens of frogs in a single summer, keeps the calculus simple<\/a>: \u201cIf you give animals a way out, most of them will find it.\u201d<\/p>\n The Big Lead reached out to Strom via TikTok message\/comment and to Nebraska Game & Parks via email.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/af1b927d9875a4e4a07612114b0d24f6.jpeg\"\/)
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