vacuum cleaners

[Tucker216]

Speaking of vaccumes lol Does anyone else vaccume their dog? Tucker wasnt shedding much until we went camping for a few days Now he is shedding so bad I vaccume our bed EVERYDAY! I do brush him twice a day but its never enough so I started in on him with the vac lol He just kinda lays there like "ok here she goes again on one of her MOM THINGS" I swear he should be bald by now but he aint even close lol
Hugz
Jessica and Tucker

[Stenograsaurus]

I have a Kirby G4. As already stated, it's a little expensive, but it's worth it. I've had it for six years now and I think I've had to replace a belt once. I go through a lot of bags though with all the hair. (I have a husky, long haired shepherd, had a rotty, and two cats.) The Kirby still sucks up like it did the day I bought it. It is expensive, but you get a vacuum, a sander, a leaf blower, and a scrubber, (I think that's it) all in one. The one drawback is that it is heavy and with a bad back, it really hurts carrying it up and down stairs, so I just recently bought a Eureka 12 amp. bagless. I ran it in 1/3 of my living room and I had to stop to dump all the hair out. The filter needs cleaned already because of all the hair and coal dust. (Have a coal furnace too). So I'm taking the Eureka upstairs where there's less hair and dirt and keeping the Kirby downstairs. As stated, you get what you pay for. Good luck in your decision.

[ramanth]

Originally posted by Tucker216
Speaking of vaccumes lol Does anyone else vaccume their dog?

The neighbors would use a shop vac on their malamutes in the summer. However, they would not 'suck' up the hair, but switch the shop vac to 'blow'. Every other week we'd help 'blow out' the dogs hair.

[kobieeli]

I too have seen my neighbors Shop-Vac their Chow-Chow. What a hoot to see them blow the dog's fur right off of him! The dog looks like he loves it too.

Sorry about having no vacuum advice for you, but welcome to PetTalk!

[shais_mom]

YES Anna the Kenmore Progressives are AWESOME.
I am so glad you had a good experience at Sears!
I would also advice (this sounds odd I know but I would do it if I had a dog like a St. Bernard in the house) Collect some dog hair and take it to the store and lay it on their patch of carpet. Step on it, ground it in, then sweep it up. I had a customer bring in a bag of cat litter and we threw it all over the floor and tried and tried different sweepers until we found one that swept it up the best.
On a side note, the only reason I am gonna say this is b/c I worked straight commission for more than a year and it is very hard work. If you go to Sears, or somewhere like that, and the sales person gives you a business card, please please please honor it. If you go back another day to buy it then take the card with you and give it to the sales associate. Usually they are permitted to ring the sale in the other person's number. I had more trouble with stuff like that in the time I worked at Sears. I wouldn't know that someone else talked with a co-worker and they would walk in and say "I want that" and I would ring it up to find out that it was another person's sale. Round and Round we would go.
I even had people try to barter with me for sales and Sears just isn't that type of a company I would always think "You wanna make a deal, go to a garage sale or pawn shop!" This one guy whined about it so much that I finally said "You know that sale price is so cheap now that you are taking food off my table and food outta my dogs mouth" He said "Oh you get a base rate plus commission" and I said "No sir I do not, if I don't sell anything today I am paying my employer for me to be here, they will pay me x amount for showing up today but when I make that on my next check, they take it right back out, its called the draw system. And when things are on sale, I lose money"
AND YOU CAN ASK ANYONE THAT KNOWS ME, I LOVE A GOOD SALE!!!!
Just some tidbits of info that might be helpful!!!

[anna_66]

Wow! That's crazy I had no idea it worked like that there. Thanks for the info!