Rarely have I bought a product that performs exactly as advertised. Today I went to home depot searching for a new vacuum cleaner. Unfortunately for my checkbook, my girlfriend was not there to beat me senseless, but I fell in love at first sight with the Dyson Animal.
I got it home… and this baby SUCKS!
I love my great purple beast also. My only beefs are that it must be emptied quite often and that animal hairs coat the brushes pretty quickly also. My fault for having four hairy dogs, some would say.
I have a DC07 Animal. I love it. It is the only vacuum cleaner I have seen that does not route the hose past the beater bar. Therefore I can suck up the worst of the dog hair and it will not be wrapped around the beater bar afterwards.
I also think it could suck a golf ball through a garden hose…
DC-14 Animal here.
I’ll second that the brushes pick up cat hair pretty fast. But damn. A flight of stairs and a lap around two upstairs bedrooms and a hallway almost fill the canister with cat hair. NO vacuum I’ve ever had sucked this much fur.
Dude, did you also get a Dell?
Ah, Dell makes shitty vacuums.
I love my dyson animal. I just wish my various animals would let me vacumn them directly, instead of having to wait until they drop the fur on the floor.
I’ve heard of music snobs.
And clothes snobs.
Wine and spirit snobs.
Movie snobs.
And just snobs in general.
But a vacuum cleaner snob?!?
Humanity needs a hobby. If you need me, I’ll be on the top floor of a Manhattan high-rise awaiting the Stay-Puff Marshmallow-Man.
We bought a DC 14 a couple of weeks ago, and I am amazed at this machine! It’s incredibly powerful, surprisingly quiet, and extremely well designed.
Like CynicalGabe said, the damned thing performs exactly as advertised.
You must have a Hoover. 
Suck up the fleas! You can suck up the fleas! You can watch those suckers dance the death dance! Then dump 'em the hell out!
(You were the poster with the cat with fleas, right? Had a couple drinks tonight… my memory might be the fuzzzy)
One of these days, one of these Dyson threads is going to be about a Dyson sphere, or at least Freeman Dyson. There is a disturbing lack of nerdity about this board. Either that, or people are discovering why June Cleaver was always vacuuming the living room floor.
The Ringworld is unsta…oh, never mind. Go play with your vacuum cleaners.
Stranger
Love my Dyson. Sucks the carpet right off the floor. Amazing. And I can vacuum while the baby sleeps. Quiet too. Sucked a spider right off the wall. Too cool.
I got yer Dyson sphere right here! And yes, the Ringworld is unstable. However, the sequels were boring.
That said, I have an older Dyson and it sucks quite a lot. If I had a Dyson sphere I would order a custom Dyson vacuum to keep it clean.
I got yer Dyson sphere right here! And yes, the Ringworld is unstable. However, the sequels were boring.
That said, I have an older Dyson and it sucks quite a lot. If I had a Dyson sphere I would order a custom Dyson vacuum to keep it clean.
I’m not sure how I managed to do a double post with a 32 minute gap in between. Maybe it was a spacetime distortion caused by a nearby cloaked Dyson sphere.
Buy you must admit that they suck.
DC 14 Animal owner here too. I love it. I’ve had it nearly a year now and can’t say enough good things about it.
[adaption of old British car joke] In 1997 Dell computers branched out and started making vacuum cleaners. It was the only product that they ever made that didn’t suck. [/AOOBCJ]
This post was typed on my Dell
I’m a saddo Dyson evangelist.
Now I’m waiting for my current washing machine to die, so I can con myself into getting one of these babies.