Quarterly? Semi-annually? Annually?

Well, had to do a reasonably decent clean up, in preparation of the
exterminators being here tomorrow (Who, me, putting it off until nearly
the last minute?). This did involve some vacuuming.

Now, Apache has been with us nearly a whole year. The reason I mention
this, is that when I started up the vacuum, she jerked her head up with
a "What the HELL is that noise?" look, before running off.

Um, I thought I vacuumed more than once a year, but I guess not!

After I finished, I went around to each of the cats, cuddled them and
apologized for making such horrible noise. Poor Apache was sitting in my
closet looking very concerned, and didn't even argue about being picked
up and cuddled.


Hugs and Purrs,
Mark

On 12/18/2012 11:45 PM, Mark Edwards wrote:
Well, had to do a reasonably decent clean up, in preparation of the
exterminators being here tomorrow (Who, me, putting it off until nearly
the last minute?). This did involve some vacuuming.

Now, Apache has been with us nearly a whole year. The reason I mention
this, is that when I started up the vacuum, she jerked her head up with
a "What the HELL is that noise?" look, before running off.

Um, I thought I vacuumed more than once a year, but I guess not!

After I finished, I went around to each of the cats, cuddled them and
apologized for making such horrible noise. Poor Apache was sitting in my
closet looking very concerned, and didn't even argue about being picked
up and cuddled.


Hugs and Purrs,
Mark

Vacuuming is a *chore*. Especially when one is dealing with cat fur

Jill

"jmcquown" wrote in message
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On 12/18/2012 11:45 PM, Mark Edwards wrote:
Well, had to do a reasonably decent clean up, in preparation of the
exterminators being here tomorrow (Who, me, putting it off until nearly
the last minute?). This did involve some vacuuming.

Now, Apache has been with us nearly a whole year. The reason I mention
this, is that when I started up the vacuum, she jerked her head up with
a "What the HELL is that noise?" look, before running off.

Um, I thought I vacuumed more than once a year, but I guess not!

After I finished, I went around to each of the cats, cuddled them and
apologized for making such horrible noise. Poor Apache was sitting in my
closet looking very concerned, and didn't even argue about being picked
up and cuddled.


Hugs and Purrs,
Mark

Vacuuming is a *chore*. Especially when one is dealing with cat fur

Jill

That's very true. I paid a lot for a vacuum cleaner that is supposed to be
especially good for cat hair. Ha! I have a little broom and dustpan set
about three or four feet high that I got from Miles Kimball. That little
broom picks up the cat hair off the carpet very nicely. True, I have to
pick it off the broom, but that's no more trouble than emptying the vacuum,
and it works a lot better than the vacuum.

Joy

jmcquown wrote:
On 12/18/2012 11:45 PM, Mark Edwards wrote:
Well, had to do a reasonably decent clean up, in preparation of the
exterminators being here tomorrow (Who, me, putting it off until nearly
the last minute?). This did involve some vacuuming.

Now, Apache has been with us nearly a whole year. The reason I mention
this, is that when I started up the vacuum, she jerked her head up with
a "What the HELL is that noise?" look, before running off.

Um, I thought I vacuumed more than once a year, but I guess not!

After I finished, I went around to each of the cats, cuddled them and
apologized for making such horrible noise. Poor Apache was sitting in my
closet looking very concerned, and didn't even argue about being picked
up and cuddled.


Hugs and Purrs,
Mark

Vacuuming is a *chore*. Especially when one is dealing with cat fur

Jill

One advantage to living in Spain is no carpet anywhere in the
apartments. So I never need to vacuum anymore. I just sweep the floors
and give them a wash every once in a while. Of course, no carpet means
that as soon as I have finished sweeping, I get little tumbleweeds of
Sweety-fur rolling down the hallway again. But that is preferable to
having cat hair tangled into the carpet, and having to run the vacuum
over the same spot 5 times before it will pick up all of it.

Nadia, Kotyo and Sweety
--
Little Monster pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/Kotyo
Sweety pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/Sweety
Kotyo and Sweety together:
http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/KotyoAndSweety

Nadia N. wrote:

jmcquown wrote:
On 12/18/2012 11:45 PM, Mark Edwards wrote:
Well, had to do a reasonably decent clean up, in preparation of the
exterminators being here tomorrow (Who, me, putting it off until nearly
the last minute?). This did involve some vacuuming.

Now, Apache has been with us nearly a whole year. The reason I mention
this, is that when I started up the vacuum, she jerked her head up with
a "What the HELL is that noise?" look, before running off.

Um, I thought I vacuumed more than once a year, but I guess not!

After I finished, I went around to each of the cats, cuddled them and
apologized for making such horrible noise. Poor Apache was sitting in my
closet looking very concerned, and didn't even argue about being picked
up and cuddled.


Hugs and Purrs,
Mark

Vacuuming is a *chore*. Especially when one is dealing with cat fur

Jill

One advantage to living in Spain is no carpet anywhere in the
apartments. So I never need to vacuum anymore. I just sweep the floors
and give them a wash every once in a while. Of course, no carpet means
that as soon as I have finished sweeping, I get little tumbleweeds of
Sweety-fur rolling down the hallway again. But that is preferable to
having cat hair tangled into the carpet, and having to run the vacuum
over the same spot 5 times before it will pick up all of it.

Not to mention that fleas love to burrow in carpet!

--
Joyce

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going
somewhere. -- Groucho Marx

"Joy" wrote in message
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"jmcquown" wrote in message
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Vacuuming is a *chore*. Especially when one is dealing with cat fur

Jill

That's very true. I paid a lot for a vacuum cleaner that is supposed to
be especially good for cat hair. Ha! I have a little broom and dustpan
set about three or four feet high that I got from Miles Kimball. That
little broom picks up the cat hair off the carpet very nicely. True, I
have to pick it off the broom, but that's no more trouble than emptying
the vacuum, and it works a lot better than the vacuum.

Joy

I have a Dyson (cylinder model) and I find it very good for picking up cat
hair. I had an ordinary vacuum cleaner before that - can't remember what
model now and it never did a good job with dog/cat hair on carpets. The
first time I used my new Dyson (many years ago now) I'd only run it for a
few minutes and it looked like I'd picked up a whole dog in the drum it was
so full of hair :-) I had to empty it twice when I went over the whole
house that first time.
It's very good at picking up dust too. It has tools that you can dust with.
They are quite expensive though, it was a leap of faith when I spent so much
money on one but I haven't regretted it. My only worry is if it passes away
of old age. The switch that turns it on stopped working so I jammed it open
with a broken jigsaw blade, that did the trick and it is still giving me
sterling service.
I forget how long I've had it, before I had cats anyway, perhaps even 20
years. They were fashionable and new at the time. My model is a DC02, one
of the first ones, and still sucks microns of dirt up perfectly. And cat
hairs!

If I used it every day, there would never be a cat hair or a speck of dust
in my house. However I don't..

I have no connection with the company that makes Dysons, btw. I just think
everyone should consider getting a Dyson when your present machine hits the
dust.
No flea eggs, or fleas (if any) have ever survived the Dyson suction.
None of my dogs or cats have ever had fleas even in the summer.
If a couple escaped the Dyson they wouldn't survive here in the winter
anyway! Fleas love centrally heated houses.
They could not tolerate how cold my house gets during the night in a cold
spell. It was only last Wednesday that when I got up in the morning it was
2C in my bathroom which is roughly 34F. It was a bit nippy in there.

Tweed

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"Joy" wrote in message
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"jmcquown" wrote in message
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Vacuuming is a *chore*. Especially when one is dealing with
cat fur

Jill

That's very true. I paid a lot for a vacuum cleaner that is
supposed to be especially good for cat hair. ...


I have a Dyson (cylinder model) and I find it very good for
picking up cat hair. I had an ordinary vacuum cleaner before
that - can't remember what model now and it never did a good
job with dog/cat hair on carpets. The first time I used my new
Dyson (many years ago now) I'd only run it for a few minutes
and it looked like I'd picked up a whole dog in the drum it was
so full of hair :-) I had to empty it twice when I went over
the whole house that first time.
It's very good at picking up dust too. It has tools that you
can dust with.
They are quite expensive though, it was a leap of faith when I
spent so much money on one but I haven't regretted it. My only
worry is if it passes away of old age. The switch that turns
it on stopped working so I jammed it open with a broken jigsaw
blade, that did the trick and it is still giving me sterling
service.
I forget how long I've had it, before I had cats anyway,
perhaps even 20 years. They were fashionable and new at the
time. My model is a DC02, one of the first ones, and still
sucks microns of dirt up perfectly. And cat hairs!


I've got a DC01, maybe slightly older than yours. I got one on
the back of a recommendation from a friend, who had thoroughly
abused his machine when renovating his house - he treated it like
an industrial vacuum cleaner, cleaning up builder's waste such as
a collapsed lathe-and-plaster ceiling, and a lot of brick dust.
When he bought his, in the early '90s, the Dyson came with a
lifetime guarantee. Needless to say, his machine stopped working
after being misused, so he claimed on the warranty - which was
honoured, and most of the parts of his machine were replaced,
free of charge!

I have no connection with the company that makes Dysons, btw.
I just think everyone should consider getting a Dyson when
your present machine hits the dust.

They *were* good vacuum cleaners, when they were made in the UK.
In my opinion, they're not quite so good now, since production
was moved to countries in the far east, with a lower cost base
:-(.

--
MatSav

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"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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"Joy" wrote in message
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"jmcquown" wrote in message
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Vacuuming is a *chore*. Especially when one is dealing with cat fur

Jill

That's very true. I paid a lot for a vacuum cleaner that is supposed to
be especially good for cat hair. ...


I have a Dyson (cylinder model) and I find it very good for picking up
cat hair. I had an ordinary vacuum cleaner before that - can't remember
what model now and it never did a good job with dog/cat hair on carpets.
The first time I used my new Dyson (many years ago now) I'd only run it
for a few minutes and it looked like I'd picked up a whole dog in the
drum it was so full of hair :-) I had to empty it twice when I went over
the whole house that first time.
It's very good at picking up dust too. It has tools that you can dust
with.
They are quite expensive though, it was a leap of faith when I spent so
much money on one but I haven't regretted it. My only worry is if it
passes away of old age. The switch that turns it on stopped working so I
jammed it open with a broken jigsaw blade, that did the trick and it is
still giving me sterling service.
I forget how long I've had it, before I had cats anyway, perhaps even 20
years. They were fashionable and new at the time. My model is a DC02,
one of the first ones, and still sucks microns of dirt up perfectly. And
cat hairs!


I've got a DC01, maybe slightly older than yours. I got one on the back of
a recommendation from a friend, who had thoroughly abused his machine when
renovating his house - he treated it like an industrial vacuum cleaner,
cleaning up builder's waste such as a collapsed lathe-and-plaster ceiling,
and a lot of brick dust. When he bought his, in the early '90s, the Dyson
came with a lifetime guarantee. Needless to say, his machine stopped
working after being misused, so he claimed on the warranty - which was
honoured, and most of the parts of his machine were replaced, free of
charge!

I have no connection with the company that makes Dysons, btw. I just
think everyone should consider getting a Dyson when your present machine
hits the dust.

They *were* good vacuum cleaners, when they were made in the UK. In my
opinion, they're not quite so good now, since production was moved to
countries in the far east, with a lower cost base :-(.

Let's hope mine doesn't die yet then. The DCO1 was an upright version IIRC.
My DC02 (cylinder version of of DC01) is still doing a perfect job even
though as i said the on/off switch failed but jamming it on works.
It is more than elderly but it works perfectly. If I could be bothered to
use it every day no dust or cat hair would touch my house, but unfortunately
I can't be bothered and only do it once every two weeks.
Tweed

On 12/19/2012 5:45 PM, Christina Websell wrote:

I have a Dyson (cylinder model) and I find it very good for picking
up cat hair. I had an ordinary vacuum cleaner before that - can't
remember what model now and it never did a good job with dog/cat hair
on carpets. The first time I used my new Dyson (many years ago now)
I'd only run it for a few minutes and it looked like I'd picked up a
whole dog in the drum it was so full of hair:-) I had to empty it
twice when I went over the whole house that first time. It's very
good at picking up dust too. It has tools that you can dust with.
They are quite expensive though, it was a leap of faith when I spent
so much money on one but I haven't regretted it. My only worry is if
it passes away of old age. The switch that turns it on stopped
working so I jammed it open with a broken jigsaw blade, that did the
trick and it is still giving me sterling service. I forget how long
I've had it, before I had cats anyway, perhaps even 20 years. They
were fashionable and new at the time. My model is a DC02, one of the
first ones, and still sucks microns of dirt up perfectly. And cat
hairs!

If I used it every day, there would never be a cat hair or a speck of
dust in my house. However I don't..

I have no connection with the company that makes Dysons, btw. I just
think everyone should consider getting a Dyson when your present
machine hits the dust. No flea eggs, or fleas (if any) have ever
survived the Dyson suction. None of my dogs or cats have ever had
fleas even in the summer. If a couple escaped the Dyson they wouldn't
survive here in the winter anyway! Fleas love centrally heated
houses. They could not tolerate how cold my house gets during the
night in a cold spell. It was only last Wednesday that when I got up
in the morning it was 2C in my bathroom which is roughly 34F. It was
a bit nippy in there.

I LOVE my Dyson. The only thing I don't like about it is when vacuuming
stairs. I use the hose with the small attachment like you'd use on
upholstery but the hose always wants to pull it back to the base so when
I get to the upper stairs it's difficult. I finally broke down and
bought a Roomba. I love setting that thing loose and it amuses the
cats, too. It's only about as loud as a hairdryer so they're not as
afraid of it as they are of the Dyson. My upstairs is mostly hardwood
and it does a great job on it though it takes a while.

"Cheryl" wrote in message
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On 12/19/2012 5:45 PM, Christina Websell wrote:

I have a Dyson (cylinder model) and I find it very good for picking
up cat hair. I had an ordinary vacuum cleaner before that - can't
remember what model now and it never did a good job with dog/cat hair
on carpets. The first time I used my new Dyson (many years ago now)
I'd only run it for a few minutes and it looked like I'd picked up a
whole dog in the drum it was so full of hair:-) I had to empty it
twice when I went over the whole house that first time. It's very
good at picking up dust too. It has tools that you can dust with.
They are quite expensive though, it was a leap of faith when I spent
so much money on one but I haven't regretted it. My only worry is if
it passes away of old age. The switch that turns it on stopped
working so I jammed it open with a broken jigsaw blade, that did the
trick and it is still giving me sterling service. I forget how long
I've had it, before I had cats anyway, perhaps even 20 years. They
were fashionable and new at the time. My model is a DC02, one of the
first ones, and still sucks microns of dirt up perfectly. And cat
hairs!

If I used it every day, there would never be a cat hair or a speck of
dust in my house. However I don't..

I have no connection with the company that makes Dysons, btw. I just
think everyone should consider getting a Dyson when your present
machine hits the dust. No flea eggs, or fleas (if any) have ever
survived the Dyson suction. None of my dogs or cats have ever had
fleas even in the summer. If a couple escaped the Dyson they wouldn't
survive here in the winter anyway! Fleas love centrally heated
houses. They could not tolerate how cold my house gets during the
night in a cold spell. It was only last Wednesday that when I got up
in the morning it was 2C in my bathroom which is roughly 34F. It was
a bit nippy in there.

I LOVE my Dyson. The only thing I don't like about it is when vacuuming
stairs. I use the hose with the small attachment like you'd use on
upholstery but the hose always wants to pull it back to the base so when
I get to the upper stairs it's difficult.

Even a dyson cannot reach to the upper stairs from downstairs. You have to
move it up as you go.
Mine is a cylinder one and sits on every stair as I go up.






I finally broke down and
bought a Roomba. I love setting that thing loose and it amuses the
cats, too. It's only about as loud as a hairdryer so they're not as
afraid of it as they are of the Dyson. My upstairs is mostly hardwood
and it does a great job on it though it takes a while.