Chrome Dome's dog sees old dude as the alpha in her world

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11613353

Oh my.

It's a slow day on Skins's island, and temporarily bored with Steve and nadin and Sherlock Judy, I meandered over to see what's up with the sparkling old dude.

Stinky The Clown (45,678 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

On a pure whim, we bought a Dyson Groomer attachment . . . . .

http://www.dyson.com/store/accessoriesDetails.asp?accessory=ACC-PETGROOMTOOL&product=GEN-ACCESS

We lost a tool for our vacuum and went to the web site to buy a replacement. Sparkly noticed this and thought it seems a good idea, so we bought it. Yeah, its a little spendy, but wow. It works as well as any other carding type groomer. It gets deep undercoat up. The cool part is how it just sucks the fur off the card and into the vacuum. Once you get a rhythm going its just automatic. You could groom your dog in the middle of a white rug and get away with it.

As the Shih-Tzu and the GSD just got back from the groomer on Monday, our only test subject was the Border Collie . . . . and she HATES vacuums. She was freaked by being so close to the vacuum, but the tool itself was okay with her.

This definitely falls into the category of luxury, but if you have a Dyson vacuum, it isn't all that much.

Okay, franksolich has a question.

franksolich owns a Dirt Devil bagless vacuum cleaner, blue and grey in color, about two years old and cost circa eighty bucks when I bought it new.

How does a Dirt Devil compare with a Dyson?

Is Chrome Dome trying to boast again about how he can afford expensive toys, while the other primitives can't, rubbing it into their faces?

get the red out (5,213 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

1. You did a wonderful job if you got your BC to deal with being close to a vacuum cleaner. I can't imagine our little herding-blend even staying in the same room with one.

Stinky The Clown (45,678 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

2. She HATED it. I don't use all caps very often, but they're appropriate here.

She HATED it.

I'm going to try some jerry-rigged hose extension to separate her from the actual vacuum and see if that helps.

Funny thing about our BC, while she is the absolute dog alpha, and sees herself only very slightly below Sparkly in status, I am **the** alpha in her world. If I told her to run through flames, she would.

I love that dog.

get the red out (5,213 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

3. She sounds like a wonderful dog

I always enjoy reading about your dogs.

jtuck004 (3,267 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

10. A Border Collie. She would run through flames, and then back, and then through, and after a couple hundred times would herd you into the kitchen for food. Just for fun.

I miss Barney, had him for 15 years. BC's are smart, smart dogs, and lots of energy. He was a mix, of course, like all mine are, so he was a little large, but quite a sight to see after he decided he really liked the agility course, especially when he learned he could herd strangers around while they watched. He thought that was great fun.

Suggestion: The idea of extending the hose is a good one. The other thing you might do is get a high-value treat (something that SHE values - beef, chicken?), set a little time aside and give her just a little bit as the vacuum nears the fur. Repeat many times. After a bit don't give a treat every time, vary it randomly, and lengthen the time between rewards. Over time she may begin to tolerate it more as she associates with the more pleasurable experience.

Be careful, though. She may like it, then she will be getting the vacuum out and doing it herself, just for the exercise. 2 am, whrrrrrr.

She sounds great.

MadrasT (2,952 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

4. I have a deaf cat who loves to be vacuumed

She would think this was the best invention ever!

Unfortunately I don't have a Dyson.

I just use the dustbuster on her. If I even pick up the dustbuster in the same room as her, she starts meowing at me to vacuum her. It's hilarious.

The Velveteen Ocelot (30,693 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

5. I once had a cat who liked to be vacuumed.

He'd roll over on his back to get his belly vacuumed. The interesting thing was that being vacuumed would get him... um ... excited. So we always felt a little pervy about vacuuming him, even though he obviously enjoyed it.

pacalo (17,327 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

9. We bought a Dyson when we still had carpet & I'll never forget the first day we used it.

We were amazed at how much dirt was pulled out of the carpet! My husband & I were jokingly fighting about getting a turn to use it.

My Boston Terrier doesn't shed much at all, but looks like a great tool, Stinky!

Worried senior (195 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

11. I have a dyson

it's the purple one designed for animal hair. Wonder if this would work on our old english sheepdog, he loves to be vacuumed but don't know if it would get the hair before it knots and matts.

[Ballygrl]

With so many people hungry in the US and living on the edge, someone has the nerve to not only purchase a vacuum that cost over $300-$400, but to actually mention it? you know how much food could've been purchased and donated to a food bank for all that money?

[Bad Dog]

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The Velveteen Ocelot (30,693 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

5. I once had a cat who liked to be vacuumed.

He'd roll over on his back to get his belly vacuumed. The interesting thing was that being vacuumed would get him... um ... excited. So we always felt a little pervy about vacuuming him, even though he obviously enjoyed


"a little pervy"???  That's some industrial strength creepy right there.  Brings to mind an old Southpark episode "Red Rocket Red Rocket"

[jukin]

Is 'Getting Vacuumed" what the kids are calling it today?

[franksolich]

With so many people hungry in the US and living on the edge, someone has the nerve to not only purchase a vacuum that cost over $300-$400, but to actually mention it? you know how much food could've been purchased and donated to a food bank for all that money?

What made this "suspect" to me--remember I don't do television and all this other stuff, and am hence pretty much immune to Madison Avenue and advertising and status symbols--was that the sparkling old dude went to great lengths to give the brand-name of his vacuum cleaner, suggesting a subconscious desire to show off.

If it'd been about vacuuming dogs, Chrome Dome wouldn't have bothered with the brand-name.

The campfire's about the sparkling old dude's need to show off to the other primitives, nothing more.

[Duke Nukum]

Man, The DUde is really set up. He boasts having 45-50 Apple ipods, ipads, etc. and now he boasts he has a bunch of Dyson stuff too.

For a guy who wants to spend our money for us, he has no problem spending for the best for himself. He could get three or four Colby touch screen products and a Dirt Devil and send the rest of his cash as a gift to the treasury, but that is not how the Catbox DUde rolls.

[GOBUCKS]

With so many people hungry in the US and living on the edge, someone has the nerve to not only purchase a vacuum that cost over $300-$400, but to actually mention it? you know how much food could've been purchased and donated to a food bank for all that money?

The squatter is a DUmmy, and DUmmies lie, all the time and every time. Of course this dog clipper bouncy is a lie.

Mike is still pissed off about being located in a crappy little tract home, after years of building a fake DUmp image of wealth.

So now he's up to his eyebrows in Apple products and other luxuries DUmpmonkeys dream about? Of course not. He's a liar.

Next week, he'll casually mention buying an ermine stole and the Hope diamond for DUmbass SparklyM.

I always knew he was a hateful lunatic, but I never thought Mike would prove to be as transparently stupid as Pam Dawson.

[shadeaux]

Sparkly wears the pants in that family.   

Of course he's showing off. I'm surprised he didn't say he bought the attachment for the housekeeper to use.

[Tucker]

DUmmies only use a vacuum for one thing only and it doesn't have anything to do with cleaning.

[franksolich]

Ever since Lu, who usurped the now-gone Mrs. Alfred Packer, the hippywife primitive, as denizen of the cooking and baking forum, the sparkling old dude's hardly ever been there, probably discomfitted that the forum isn't so full of Hate and rage and spite and envy and Godphobia and pretension as it was when Mrs. Alfred Packer wielded the rolling-pin (and hippyhubby Wild Bill the cadaver-carver).

Lu's a nice person, and I don't think she chased the sparkling old dude and Sherlock Judy away; I think it was just one of these natural evolutions where one just drifts away to somewhere else.  But in these two cases, both drifted away because Lu's serene niceness is too much for them to bear.

Now the sparkling old dude spends much of his time in the pets forum, and Sherlock Judy, if she hasn't already been, is fated to fall into the Dungeon, the conspiracy forum.

[BadCat]

I don't have a Dyson vacuum cleaner.

My maid, who cleans my house, has one.

[Rebel]

franksolich owns a Dirt Devil bagless vacuum cleaner, blue and grey in color, about two years old and cost circa eighty bucks when I bought it new.

How does a Dirt Devil compare with a Dyson?

Never had a Dyson, but I've never been impressed with the handheld Dirt Devils. If you want something that'll suck a golf ball through a water hose, get an Oreck handheld canister. Mine came with my Oreck upright. It's awesome.

This is what mine looks like:

[franksolich]

I don't have a Dyson vacuum cleaner.

My maid, who cleans my house, has one.

You're aware, of course, that the sparkling old dude has a maid.

One isn't sure however if she has papers.

Or if he pays her by check or cash.

Or if she can park in the driveway and come in the front door, or has to park on the street and slip around to come in the back door.

There's something else that's bothered me for quite a while now about the sparkling house.  Down in the basement, they have this sheeting (?) applied to the walls to make it look like they're bricks, but that sheeting (?) is so obviously fake it's almost a caricature.  It in no way resembles bricks; it resembles sheeting (?) made to look like brick.  I would've left the original walls exposed, whatever they are, even if they're just plain ordinary concrete blocks.

[franksolich]

Never had a Dyson, but I've never been impressed with the handheld Dirt Devils. If you want something that'll suck a golf ball through a water hose, get an Oreck handheld canister. Mine came with my Oreck upright. It's awesome.

Mine's a reasonably heavy-duty upright floor vacuum.

When making my previous comment, I looked for the model number, but didn't see it.

It's got awesome suction.

It has all these attachments, and unlike Chrome Dome, I have yet to lose one.  The trick to that is simply by always keeping the attachments where they belong.  If people put things back after using them, rather than just setting them down and waiting for "someone else" to put them back, one doesn't lose things.

[Tucker]

If you want something that'll suck a golf ball through a water hose,

Are you talking about Stinky's vacuum or his wife?