vacuuming

[jmdebb]

My chins actually love the shop vac! Wesley likes it if you "pretend" to suck his nose up in the hose on the outside of the bars of his cage. Then he does a little twisty dance when you're done. It's very cute. I must say I've never had much alarm vacuuming around my chins or by son when he was a baby. Stewart (my son) didn't wake up for anything! Now the cats . . . whole nother story!

Sounds really cute. Take a video if you can would love to see it.

Jean

 

[Spoof]

I clean with a shop vac as I don't have pans. They know to get up on their shelves when I turn it on, and away I go.

 

[ChipNOreo]

Mine actually seem to really like the vaccume. I think they play a game of who can touch it first. I will actually vaccume in their cage and they will get up from wherever they are hiding and come and try to chew on the hose and stick their nose in it...

 

[xcoronaangel]

I have always wondered why my cats are so afraid... I mean they are all over 4 years old at this point and I vacuum almost everyday so you would think if the evil vacuum hasn't sucked them up by now they would just get used to it, right? But nooooo..... it's like their is this horrible monster that mommy controls that is just waiting suck up a cat!

One of my GS's thinks the Vacuum is a monster... you turn it on and he freaks out running around the house barking... he even barks at it if he walks by it and its out of the closet not on :laughitup: what a dorkis!

 

[Jenn]

My cats and especially my furocious doberman are quite fearful of the vacuum...turn it on and they're in the next county! My chin, however, will come up to it and watch me work. I think she is ready, though, to take on anything that invades her home domain!

 

[Maighen]

I was worried about Bailey being scared of the vacuum and it seems he isn't but every other animal is! Its really interesting and funny.

 

[Harleychin]

My boys freaked out a little the first couple times I ran the vac.
Now they don't even wake up for it.

 

[Chinniechantel]

My chins like the vacuume, they love it when I stick the hose up to the cage bars and let them play with it. I really don't think you need to worry about it, and what can you do....take the cage out of the room evertime you need to vacuume? That does not sound fun.

 

[Maighen]

My husband is in there vacuuming right now....somehow I convinced him to do it haha...anyways...Bailey just opened one eye and then turned around with his butt facing my husband and went back to sleep! He has such a little attitude haha!!!

 

[lydz]

The only sound my chins do not react to is the vacuum. I was nervous too when I first got them but I turned it on and they didn't even flinch. They run up to it and try to stick their nose in the nozzle when I'm vacuuming poo.

It's funny.

 

[Maighen]

I haven't tried vacuuming poo yet.....Bailey pretty much opens one eye as if to say "do you mind? I'm trying to sleep here!"

 

[Ruby]

When I run the shop vac Venus will run up to sniff it and Blitzen will give me the stink eye and go back to sleep. :laughitup:

 

[Maighen]

They really have little attitudes though!

 

[blue_soda025]

Wow, I'm surprised that chins aren't scared of vacuums. :O Maybe you guys just have nice, quiet, relatively new vacuums. Ours is super old and really loud.... My bird is terrified of it. If he even sees it in sight, he'll fly around like mad, even if it's not near him.

 

[stampinchick]

Man, If chins were scared of the vacuum, I would be screwed. I usually vacuum at least every other day, if not every day. I vacuum thier cage while they are still in it, and honestly have to be real careful not to get a chin stuck in the hose :dance3:

 

[Dust Fly]

My cats hate the vacuum, my chins are just fascinated by it!

Haha, my cats are the same way they flee from the vacuum instantly. One of my cats jumps on top of the cupboards, lol. My chinchilla just stands there like nothing is going on.

To answer the question, I leave my chinchilla in her cage when I vacuum and she's fine with it.

 

[Euphoric]

I have to vacuum my chin cage everyday now that they are sharing one.
Its really loud, but they just go to a different part of the cage.

Thank god. The poo is so much! So much! lol

 

[lauralynne]

My 2 fur-girls have been kinda like my human kids. I constantly had noise going and they grew used to it. I'd vacuum while my daughter slept in her bassinet in the living room.
My chins have been the same way. When I brought them home, I'd run the hand held vac around their cage daily. At first they'd freak out a little and get as high in the cage as they could - but it doesn't even phase them anymore.