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It''s been many years since I''ve owned a Dustbuster type of handheld vacuum, largely because every one I''ve used had limited battery life, and wasn''t good at picking up all but the lightest debris.

I thought I''d give the Bissell Pet Hair Eraser a shot, hoping that the handheld technology has evolved, and that something -anything -could make living with a Shepherd and Pointer easier.

Out of the box, I immediately noticed how the pink rubber tip on the end of the vacuum looked and felt a lot like the brush I use on my short-haired Pointer. Holding back the urge to vacuum my dog, I decided to read the instructions, telling me I needed to put it on the charger for 18 hours before I vacuumed anything. Dutifully, I put it on the charger, but noted that the design of the charger base REALLY expects you to mount it to a wall. I wasn''t sure I was ready for that sort of commitment, but it worked fine left on my floor.

The next day, it was time to start erasing pet hair. The first few minutes were brilliant. It seemed this was going to be a perfect way to get my furniture and stairs vacuumed without lugging around my upright and dealing with the attachments. But, things started going downhill. The pink grabber thing seemed to bring short hair up, but didn''t consistently make it to the actual vacuum. Not a huge deal until I emptied out the bin and noticed how quickly the filter had changed color.

Unfortunately, the filters aren''t washable, so in just under two weeks, the Pet Hair Eraser went from "awesome" to "dumb 80''s Dustbuster". If I had been using this for hours on end, or if my house was particularly dirty and dusty, I''d totally understand. After all, filters don''t last forever. But the performance absolutely tanks if the filter is dirty, and replacement filters (P/N 52H6) aren''t all that cheap when they need to be replaced so often.

Personally, I see this as a design problem. If the Pet Hair Eraser had been designed to pick up your kid''s spilled Cheerios, I wouldn''t rate it so harshly. But when it''s advertised as a product to deal with debris that''s inherently dirty, I don''t understand why they wouldn''t put a washable prefilter before the cotton-like filter. At this rate, I''m likely to spend more money in filters than the MSRP of the Pet Hair Eraser in under a year. At that kind of money, I almost start to wonder how long it would take before I''d come out ahead getting a refurbished Dyson DC31 Handheld Animal Vacuum Cleaner.

If you are a pet owner, you need the Bissell Pet Hair Eraser...no doubt about it. I own one of the Dyson animal vacuums, which is great, but even the many attachments don''t do a good job of getting cat hair off the furniture. I usually have to go over my couch with one of those lint rollers, which is a huge pain and still doesn''t work all that well.

Enter the Bissell Pet Hair Eraser. I don''t know what it is about this thing, but WOW, does it work! I was amazed (and somewhat disgusted) by the amount of cat hair it sucked off my couch in the first few seconds alone. In fact, I believe that if I turned this hand vac on and pointed it directly at my cat, it would suck her up whole. It really is that good. The cordless feature and easy cleaning mechanisms make this an even more valuable product. I highly recommend this to all pet owners who would like their furniture to be fur-free!

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Summary: A good choice for general cleanup, rubberized nozzle helps get hair out of crevices in upholstery.

With 2 cats and 3 girls in the house, there''s an abundance of hair mixed in with all the other detritus hardwood floors collect. The nubby rubberized nozzle is the same material that the cat hair brushes in the store are made of. It helps lift cat hair out of chair cushions and the like. As soon as this was charged up I went to the basement where the cats sleep and quickly dislodged and vacuumed off their sleeping pad.

Like the pet hair cleaners, it really helps to brush the material in a few directions or make small circles as you vacuum.

With 12 volts of power it definitely beat out most of our older dustbusters. It''s not quite as powerful as our current Black & Decker Pivot Vac 18V Cordless Pivoting Hand Vac, PHV1810 but it''s lighter and *much* quieter. It has a solid and quality feel, with the same rubberized material on the grip.

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This little vacuum is fine, but I find it to be nothing special when it comes to pet hair (at least not the hair of my two short haired cats). I imagine most hand vacs of this size would do a pretty comparable job. I have a microfiber couch and was really hoping the Pet Hair Eraser would be awesome at getting the hair off of it, but it''s just so so. The best strategy I have found so far with the couch is to brush it vigorously with the thin-bristled side of the FURemover duo rubber brush and use the Pet Hair Eraser to suck up the clumps of hair produced by the FURemover brush. This vacuum does practically nothing on the cat hair that is accumulating on the doormat near my front door. It may be that it''s better for longer haired animals... I''m just not sure it''s worth the cost if you''ve got short haired kitties that shed everywhere! The tip of the vacuum is also pretty small so you have to make a ton of passes over something to cover any mildly significant sized area of upholstery.

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I have always needed a small vacuum. I live in a condo, and so often I find cobwebs or dust or dirt in the corners of the place that need to be taken care of. I do not own a pet, so I cannot speak for the pet-hair-attractant quality of this thing, but as a handheld vacuum, it works fine. The thing I like about it the most, is that there''s like a 3-4 inch nozzle that you slide out (it''s in the middle of that fat pink bit on the front of the vacuum) giving you extra reach. This makes it PERFECT for getting cobwebs and dust from places up in the corners of the ceilings of my place. So far, in using this, even on the corners along the floor, I use it with the nozzle extended. I don''t really like that clunky pink bit on the front: When I vacuum, I like to have a nice clear edge on a nozzle, not some thick thing. But well, maybe it works for pet-owners.

The filter inside doesn''t seem like much; it''s like a piece of cheesecloth over the part inside where the fan is. I don''t know how to replace that, if it ever needs replacing. I have having to find parts to stuff like that you go to a store and it''s like "this is the filter for the Panasonic V-52e" but you own the Panasonic V-52a and who knows if they are interchangable or WHAT?

Another grip, is the plastic thing that extends at the end, it EASILY slides back up into the unit as you''re using it! Kind of a pain. It doesn''t CLICK out when you extend it, and so I find that I am constantly having to slide it back out as I vaccuum up the hallway edges.

It''s not too heavy, either. But then again, I''m a guy. I''m a guy who goes to the gym, so I have no problem with this!

For what I need it for the occasional cleanup of dust or cobwebs, I''m fine with this product.

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