# Did You Ever Play "Vacuum Cleaner" With Your Dog **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 26, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-play-vacuum-cleaner-with-your-dog/522646 "2009-12-26T20:51:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-play-vacuum-cleaner-with-your-dog/522646/1 "2009-12-26T20:51:23Z")
When I was little I used to grab my dog’s (he was a collie/shepherd mix) two rear legs and then walk him around like he was a vacuum cleaner. He’d be walking on his two front legs. While it amused me greatly and mildly irritated the dog, (he never stayed mad for more than a second and after awhile he just put up with it, I thought I was the only one who did this. Then I saw on a rerun of _the Simpsons_ where someone (I forget who) confessed to doing the same exact thing. So did anyone else play “Vacuum Cleaner” with your dog? Yeah I know a lot of dogs are afraid of the real vacuum, as shown on _the Family Guy_. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-play-vacuum-cleaner-with-your-dog/522646/2 "2009-12-26T21:04:39Z")
My dog when I was a kid loved to be vacuumed! She’d sit for as long as you’d vacuum her, with a blissful look on her doggie face. All subsequent dogs I’ve had or been affiliated with have run in terror from the vacuum. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-play-vacuum-cleaner-with-your-dog/522646/3 "2009-12-26T22:01:24Z")
That would be wheelbarrow. My dog would have bitten your arm off, so no. ---
**Author:** ![Postariti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Postariti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Postariti)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-play-vacuum-cleaner-with-your-dog/522646/4 "2009-12-26T22:22:55Z")
A second vote for “wheelbarrow.” I did this with my cats. It reinforced their idea that I was completely insane. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-play-vacuum-cleaner-with-your-dog/522646/5 "2009-12-26T22:26:31Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > My dog when I was a kid loved to be vacuumed! She’d sit for as long as you’d vacuum her, with a blissful look on her doggie face. All subsequent dogs I’ve had or been affiliated with have run in terror from the vacuum. Well, if you hadn’t traded in the canister vacuum for the upright model with the beater bar, things might have turned out differently. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-play-vacuum-cleaner-with-your-dog/522646/6 "2009-12-26T22:57:36Z")
It would only be a wheelbarrow if you put something on top the dog. It’s a vacuum when the dog is eating stuff off the floor 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-play-vacuum-cleaner-with-your-dog/522646/7 "2009-12-26T23:16:42Z")
But you said it irritated him. I never saw a dog get irritated over getting someting to eat. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-play-vacuum-cleaner-with-your-dog/522646/8 "2009-12-27T01:11:27Z")
No, but we played “elevator” with the cat… ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2009, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-play-vacuum-cleaner-with-your-dog/522646/9 "2009-12-27T01:54:25Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > But you said it irritated him. I never saw a dog get irritated over getting someting to eat. Irritated at first, but being a dog, you know they pretty much get over things within a few seconds