I ran down my Little Buddy!

[snapdragen]

We've got one of those guys too - Chloe hates it. I walked into the back room where it's "docked" one night, she is lying there, pointing at it, with her hackles raised, asleep! The ever vigilant corgi - on guard even at rest.....

[Pedal Wench]

Do those things work? I've always wanted one and last week, Home Depot had one on sale. I go through vacuum cleaners like crazy - I've got a Newfie mix - 125 lbs. of fluffy black hair EVERYWHERE. I also like the Dyson concept - again - does it work? Will it last?

[Running Mommy]

Like the others I thought it was going to be sad.. Kinda geared myself up for a "and then my puppy darted out the front door after me into the path of my front wheel"... But LUCKILY I just spit my water on my keyboard!!
I want one of those! Actually I want the new "scooba" wet vac (same idea as the roomba) for my tile downstairs! Here in AZ we have more hard surfaces than carpet- it's a dusty desert thang..

[Nanci]

I have the Dyson The Ball. I wanted one ever since my friend Tiffany got The animal, but couldn't decide since there are so many models and prices and colors. The Best Buy salesman explained to me that the insides are all the same- it's the attachments that you pay for. Since The Animal has the most extra stuff, it costs the most. The latest generation have a pivoting ball that lets them go around corners. I didn't like it, driving it in the store, but decided to get it anyway, and love it now and am so glad I got that kind.

What I like about it. It's extremely simple to use. There is nothing tricky about disconnecting, emptying, reconnecting the cannister like there has been on every other bagless vacuum I have ever had. Push a butotn, it comes off. Pull a lever, the bottom drops open and stuff falls out. Click the bottom shut. Set it back in it's place with no fighting or aligning.

How it performs. I wanted a vacuum that would vacuum up both tiny down feathers that are all over my house like others have pet hair, and bigger wing and body feathers. It does, and never gets clogged. The suction is so strong that, if I vacuum under Milly's cage, feahters fly out of the cage down to the floor. You can see feathers being pulled to it from as far away as two or three feet. Also, it picks up right to the edge of baseboards- no need to get out a separate attachment to go along there. You can turn the rotating brushes off with the push of a button, up at the top of the machine, to go onto tile. I vacuumed up pine needles from the Christmas tree, even the big quantity from when it first came in the house. No problem. I take it outside and vacuum my truck. I love it.

I especially loved that when I went to Best Buy, there was a salesman who knew absolutely everything about it and had one himself. He let me play with the different ones for as long as I wanted. He let me pour dirt on the floor and vacuum it up. He let me try emptying the cannister right on the floor. He showed me how the suction is so strong that, if you have the wand on a hose attachment out, you can walk away as far as it will stretch, then cover up the end, and it will pull the vacuum towards you, fast! He could explain all the technical stuff, too. He advised me to get the Best Buy extended warranty simply for the reason that, though Dyson has a good warranty, you have to pay $40 to ship it. If you have the Best Buy extended warranty, it covers shipping.

Nanci

[Melody]

Do those things work?

All I can say is that my husband and I *love* ours.

Mel