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Cleaning your floors is a necessary part of housekeeping, but it becomes particulary important when you have pets. I recently took a look at the Dyson DC24 Animal, which is an ultra-lightweight and compact Dyson Ball vacuum cleaner optimized for pet hair removal and dirt elimination.

The ball helps provide maneuverability as I showed in this video demo of the Dyson DC24. The Dyson DC24 pet brush helps clean loose hair from your pet, which I demonstrated on a less than willing Wicket.

A second Dyson vacuum – the Dyson DC35 Multi Floor – offers additional versatility for vacuuming hardwood floors in addition to cleaning carpets. I have a lot of hardwood floors in my home, so this is the perfect compliment to my cleaning arsenal.

And yes – I actually clean my own house most of the time.

How to Clean Pet Hair Using the Dyson DC24 Animal

I gotta get me a bug vacuum – or a spider vacuum, if I have to get something pest-specific. It’s spider season here in Seattle, and Ponzi and I are crawling out of our respective skins. She’s already gone through 14 magazines today (with the victims getting anything but more literate). If there’s a can within reach, our uninvited pest guests are treated to a complementary insecticide bath. We used to deploy the handheld vacuum to suck up spiders, but nobody ever wanted to clean the trap afterwards. A bug vacuum may be the only way to go… zip zap!

Bug Vacuum