Can anyone recommend a good vacuum cleaner?

[Pet_Bunny]

gentle giants wrote:

My parents have a Filter Queen which is almost thirty years old and still running great, too.

We have a Filter Queen. It is quite heavy and bulky for the canister and power head. We had to change the belts for the power head a few times, that I went and bought several belts to keep on hand. It is very messy to empty, and you have to replace the paper filter with a new one every time you open it so you don't void the warranty.

I am waiting to replace it with a Dyson. But Pam seems to like her Bissell Pet Hair Eraser Vacuum, I might take alookat those too.

 

[Nancy McClelland]

we have a Dyson for the rest of the house--the bunny room has a 16 gal. sears shopvac--never been able to clog it, even cleaning up after 17 bunnies--just dump it out once a week. Run the Dyson over the carpet after the big stuff is eliminated by the shopvac first. And, yes, the Dyson is expensive, but it is so handy and works better than any other vacuum we've ever had.

 

[RexyRex]

gentle giants wrote:

I have a Dyson for my house, and I love it. The only problem I have with it is that it tends to push around bunny pebbles rather than pick them up. It does great picking up hay and stuff like that though, and itdoes really fabulous picking up all the dog, cat and bunny fur in the carpets.

I have a Dyson Animal and I have the same problem with the poops. Mine isn't so great on the hay though. I use a shop vac for the hay/poop messes then go over everything again with the Dyson.

My mom has a Filter Queen as well and LOVES it. She's had that thing for 15 years and it still runs well. She doesn't have animals, soI really can't say how it would hold up to bunny messes.