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What is the Best Vacuum for Pet Hair?

Posted on 30 November 2009. Tags: best vacuum, dyson canister, dyson vacuum cleaners, oreck xl, upper body strength

An avid Three Dachshund’s reader commented on how nice our off-white carpets look and wondered how we keep our carpets clean and what the best vacuum for Dachshund hair is. First off, vacuuming your carpet can become a taxing chore especially when you have three Dachshunds that shed and have a tendency track in outside dirt. The weekly chore can be cut down to about 15 minutes with the right kind of equipment.

Over the ten years that we’ve had our dogs, we’ve tried just about every vacuum on the market and the only two that have survived the test of time are the Oreck and Dyson Vacuum cleaners. The amount of money we wasted on the cheaper (well known named) brands easily would have paid for our more expensive vacuums we own today.

We fell in love with our Dyson canister from the moment we got it home. It has incredible suction and keeps the dirt and dust inside the canister instead of spreading though out the house as you vacuum. The only problem is that the air driven bush does not work well for pet hair on our medium pile carpet. The power cord was too short making it difficult to cover some of the rooms in our house. Eventually we gave it away to my mother who lives in a small apartment and suffers with COPD making it a perfect vacuum for her.

We didn’t know how dirty our carpets were until we cleaned them with the Oreck XL. The hypo-allergenic filtration system keeps the dust and dirt in the bag so it doesn’t go spewing back out into the room. The bags hold an incredible amount of dirt so you don’t have to empty it so often like you do in bagless systems.

The light-weight design is perfect for the stairs, but again, it is designed to work on low pile carpeting. You can get a really good workout on your biceps and triceps with this vacuum. Even though this is probably the best vacuum for dog hair – and we continue to use it to clean our stairs — the upper body strength it takes to clean our caused us switch back to Dyson.

The Dyson Animal upright is what we use to clean our carpets every week. The short comings of the canister were eliminated with a 25’ power cord and a motorized brush that even picks up the baby-fine fur that Molly sheds. The large wheels make vacuuming nearly effortless and are the main reason we can vacuum our house in less than fifteen minutes.

The main problem is with Dyson is that it is a bagless system and you have to empty the canister outside. (Remember to stand up wind when you drop the contents into the trash.) But other than that, it is a really good vacuum for our carpet.

So which vacuum is best for cleaning pet hair? The Dyson Animal and Oreck XL are the best vacuums that we’ve ever owned for cleaning up after our Dachshunds. Unlike cheaper vacuums, the exceptional quality of these brands will last for many years even though the prices are substantially higher. But do you really want to sacrifice when buying the best vacuum for pet hair?