This is a good subject. We have berber (and I'm not taking a picture of it, it's full of dog hair and I don't feel like vacuuming right now) . I hate it. I really want to replace it with something hard - Pergo, wood, whatever, but the big thing I worry about is all our dogs are so old I think they would have a really hard time getting up off of it - and slipping on it and falling down. Especially Bandit, the oldest dog. He has problems getting up because of his age, and he has problems getting up on the carpet now. I'd hate to have him try and get up on something slippery. He has a back leg that is weak, and he has to get his good leg under him to get up. Sometimes he has problems and ends up under my computer desk, or under a dining chair and then we have to help him up. So I will probably have to stick with this yucky carpet (at least in the main room) for now.

Having an older dog does mean occasional accidents, and some of it is rough because the dogs try and make nests. So in a few spots you can tell that it has been plucked up, so we stick dog beds over those spots.

I am surprised how well overall the berber has stood up to three dogs, (even though I have made it sound really bad), after we shampoo it most of it looks good as new.