thing into the home.

two cats are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cute.

This also made me when I saw this.

thanks!!!

" i will bite the shit out them"

Fucking genius

Great stuff, Cat!!

(just kidding)

monster that lives in this house and it will eat you! It is called Vaccuum!"

I actually just had an incident with my three year old girl kitty. I was vacuuming and she didn't seem too alarmed. I was using the hose and attachment, getting some corners. She always retreated for my moving the whole machine around getting big areas, but I wondered if she would freak out about just the attachment and hose. I've seen videos of cats that actually let themselves be vacuumed. I reached out slowly with the attachment toward her, and she threw a left hook like Floyd Patterson clocking Ingamar Johannsen! Nope! Not this kitty!

5 or 6 months...Lordy she was gorgeous. She wasn't feral, but very skittish and all alone. Eventually I chummed her in, and we got TIGHT!

Anyway, I don't know how it happened, but I found I could - as long as I petted her and "scritched" her neck - I could vacuum her with my SIXTEEN GALLON SHOP VAC. She'd be up on the bureau, looking out the window, I'd be petting away, and all that kitty hair was GONE. She loved it!! (me, too!!)

Any chance Buddy is young? Youngsters may have a better chance at acclimating (though I've seen no studies on this!) - best luck to you both, at any rate!

Oh, and I don't think the size or shape of your Dyson mean much to him - it's that VRROOOM when you crank it that could freak the poor fella out, eh - but, he WILL recover at some point when you're finished cleaning!

he seems to be maturing into a more skittish cat. Never been outside. The older one Twilight knows what a vacuum is. Doesn't like it but is not traumatized by it so I am not worried about her.

course!), close the door and crank that new Dyson, that'll muffle the noise a bit and give him a chance to skeedaddle to a "safe space" if he freaks a bit...again, best wishes!

I want to vacuum, I wait until she is elsewhere - whatever day that might be.
If she is on the deck, with the glass door closed, I will run it inside, and she hisses and hits the glass if it gets too close.
Sorry - the kitties are in charge.

put the cat in a room where you can close the door, preferably a room that has a bed to hide under or closet to hide in. When you turn it on - your cat will run anyway. My cat disappears somewhere when I vacuum - she is well hidden.

I once had a cat - for many years - and she would hide when I used the vacuum. When she was near the end of her life, she walked up to the vacuum cleaner ( it was not on) and hissed at it and walked away. She finally made her stand.

Not unlike the dog, the vacuum is an ancient and ancestral enemy of the cat.
However, if your cat is a snot you could always shake out plastic bin liners prior to vacuuming to really rachet up the terror.

Oh...sorry you didn't want to visit your cat with torments, did you?

Nevermind.

til i try it one her i bet. she hisses at the garbage truck's beep beep.

He wouldn't move from his chair so I could suck the hair up. So I thought I'll get the hose really close. Next thing I know he's getting a 10 minute vacuuming.

Male @ 5 and a Dyson vacuum.

...3 of our 4 cat scattered like leaves in the wind. The 4th one has gone deaf in her later years (she's 13 now) and I can vacuum righr next to her and she won't even wake up.

She used to be very skittish and is actually a happier cat now that she can't hear.

I've indoctrinated my cats by running it in short bursts before actually vacuuming around them. Over time they got used to it and would sit longer before bolting out of the room. Once they would sit long enough that I could get near them for some ear skritching I'd do that while letting the vacuum run. Now we all have a tacit understanding that I can go ahead and vacuum as long as I don't start anywhere near them and get in and get out of their area in a reasonable amount of time.