Bissell Pet vacuum-I love you

Posted by Mandy M. Roth on Feb 21, 2010 in Hell If I Know What It Should Be Labeled |

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As you all know, Hercules-our 8 mos old boxer pup- is super spoiled and thinks his throne is any item of furniture that doesn’t have a pillow tipped forward, blocking his ability to jump onto it. My old vacuum wasn’t doing the trick anymore. It had been fine with our other dog but we had her shaved down every 8 weeks so she didn’t shed. Herc is a horse of a diff color. The boy sheds like mad and I do NOT deal well with animal hair. So I decided to start pricing vacuums that are out there. I really thought I’d have to spend at the very least $400 to get something that would do the trick. After much shopping around, I kept coming back to this $200 model by Bissell (I ended up finding it for $149 at Home Depot on sale but Lowes wanted $190 and Sears wanted $169). The box made lots of great claims about how it was for pet hair issues and what not–even boosting a pet hair attachment. I’m cheap. I do NOT like to spend money even if I’m spending less than I had thought I’d have to. I’m also not afraid to take something back if its a piece of crap.

I got it home and Shane put it together for me (fast and easy assembly). I started in my family room, running it over a six foot section in the center of the room. I have off white Berber carpeting down there. I have always vacuumed daily and do a carpet cleaning twice a year. It didn’t look dirty. Um, let me start by saying OHMYGOD the fiflth the vacuum sucked up was just…. ahhhhh…. I lived with that there! Ahhh! It pulled up that much funk and I’d only done a small section of the room? GAH! I then did the entire room and utilized this fantastic feature the vacuum has. Its called “Lift Off & Go”. The entire center (motor area, cord, hose) unhooks from the base/upright vacuum. Its heavier than a dirt devil handheld but no where near trying to lug a vacuum around. And it has ALL the power of the vacuum. With a 30 foot cord I could move freely around the family room and even use it on the stairs. I put the pet hair furniture attachment on it and my navy loveseat that I assumed would never again be Hercules hair free–was suddenly navy once more!

I kept going, doing my entire house and every piece of furniture I own. I’ll admit it, I did the dog too. Hey, before you yell… he LOVED it! He was moving his butt end towards it like “Mom, get that spot”. LOL. I can’t stress enough how amazed I am at the power this vacuum, that was under $200 in the end, packs. Not only that but I just noticed that Bissell actually sells an attachment kit for $29 that is made FOR your pets, to vacuum and groom them. Holy shit, I’m soooo buying that!

I use this daily and I’d also like to stress how great it does on my hardwood floors and kitchen flooring. Other vacuums I’ve had in the past made claims of bare floor quality but only managed to throw the dirt behind the vacuum. This one sucks it up! It also has a feature where you can shut off the main turning brush thingie (like my tech terms) so that you don’t have the brushes going against your hardwood but still have all the sucking power. Did I mention its bagless? Bissell should so hire me as a spokesperson because I’m in love with this thing.

The pics I’ve included in the post are not my own. They’re from the web, Bissell site and Amazon. I’m including a buy link to the Amazon listing.