Cats and the Dreaded Vacuum Cleaner

My cats do not like the sound of a giant upright vacuum cleaner. Most of my cats will hide and be out of sight until I put the vacuum cleaner away. My cats do not get upset over a little handheld vacuum cleaner.

I purchased a room for the first time about five years ago. My cats would sit and watch the Roomba vacuum in my living and dining rooms. One day my cat Kohl fell asleep under a chair in the dining room. The Roomba got dangerously close to Kohl’s tail. I have never seen a cat move as fast as Kohl did that day. One day I was planning on starting my Roomba in about ten minutes. It is as if one of my house cats had read my mind and pushed the start button on my room. My Roomba was vacuuming my living room, compliments to one of my house cats, who was very observant in watching me start the Roomba at once.

My cats do not like it when I vacuum their hair off my drapes or the furniture in my house. Garfunkel will sleep on top of my Grandfather’s clock. Kohl lays down in a platform rocker in my living room, and Conrad sleeps on a rocking chair in one of my upstairs bedrooms.

My cats in the house next door are not impressed with a large, noisy vacuum either. Most of them will hide back of a piece of plywood or go to the utility room in the house.

I started a Roomba for the first time in the house next door last week. My cat Russ kept an eye on it and seemed to enjoy watching it move across the carpet as it did an excellent job removing its hair from my carpet. Bella watched the Roomba from the box she was resting in. Hilford and Mr. Gray watched it from a heated cat bed. Cali was also interested in protecting the Roomba clean up her sleeping, toy, and a living area of the house.

My cats were enthralled with how a Roomba moves around and cleans your carpet.

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