Flat Wheel Cafe - March Edition - Trains Magazine

Deggesty

If your dogs are like some I have known, they will not stay around a working vacuum cleaner. The one that was most averse to vacuum cleaners was the worst offender. I am confident that he was part porcupine, because when he wagged his tail, hair shot out of it.

Dalmatians are walking snowstorms, so there's short white (and the occasional black) hairs everywhere - especially at corners and doorways where he might brush against things. 

The Sheltie mix has long hair, and she's doing some shedding right now.   Mix the two together and you get some interesting dust bunnies.

Since the Dal has been deaf since birth, and the Sheltie has recently gone deaf, neither gives the vacuum as wide a berth as they would if the could hear.  I've been known to vacuum right next to the Dal (although he doesn't like the exhaust).  The Sheltie remembers when she could hear, and stays away.