When we moved to Texas we had to start afresh with all new appliances and gadgets (apart from my computers of course) – and we opted for a cheap little vacuum cleaner as we have all wood floors and tile in the bottom half of the house and berber carpet upstairs… so a good old fashioned “Hoover” style unit worked great for us. Anyway, the addition of Alfie has also brought a lot of extra fur into the house and he sheds, a lot!

Anyway, last week we decided to jump in and get ourselves a Dyson DC15 Animal (the one that they recommend for pet fur).  It came yesterday afternoon and as we were taking Charlie to his training classes I only managed to get 5 minutes with the unit after assembly – but that five minutes doing about 4 steps on the staircase got me worried…. the canister on the Dyson was filling fast with a mixture of fawn and black Pug hair!   Were we really that unclean?  No time to tell, as Petsmart Beginner Classes were calling.

This morning I was not feeling too great, I had a rough night and really did not feel like messing with cleaning – but the only thing on my mind was the though that the house was dirty… I could not get it out of my head.   So, I popped a couple of Ibruprofen and 3 cups of coffee and set about cleaning the house from top to bottom.

3 hours later and 1 average bin-liner full of fur I can now conclude that we DID live in a dirty, smelly, furry, disgusting and totally unclean house.

But not any more!  We might be living of Ramen Noodles and drinking Dollar General Coke for a month of two, but thanks Mr Dyson…. I knew there was a reason I had a DC04 in the UK!

Richard