diff --git a/google/cloud/sqlalchemy_spanner/sqlalchemy_spanner.py b/google/cloud/sqlalchemy_spanner/sqlalchemy_spanner.py
index 82eb14bd..6888e8fa 100644
--- a/google/cloud/sqlalchemy_spanner/sqlalchemy_spanner.py
+++ b/google/cloud/sqlalchemy_spanner/sqlalchemy_spanner.py
@@ -48,14 +48,14 @@
 @listens_for(Pool, "reset")
 def reset_connection(dbapi_conn, connection_record):
     """An event of returning a connection back to a pool."""
-    if dbapi_conn.connection.inside_transaction:
-        dbapi_conn.connection.rollback()
+    if isinstance(dbapi_conn.connection, spanner_dbapi.Connection):
+        if dbapi_conn.connection.inside_transaction:
+            dbapi_conn.connection.rollback()
 
-    if getattr(dbapi_conn.connection, "staleness", None) is not None:
         dbapi_conn.connection.staleness = None
-
-    if getattr(dbapi_conn.connection, "read_only", None) is not None:
         dbapi_conn.connection.read_only = False
+    else:
+        dbapi_conn.connection.rollback()
 
 
 # register a method to get a single value of a JSON object