Carrie specializes in smart home devices such as smart plugs and smart lights, as well as large and small appliances including vacuum cleaners, air fryers, stand mixers, and coffee machines. Dyson’s Ball Animal 2 Upright is an amazing corded vacuum for eliminating pet hair on carpets. The Pure ONE S15 Pet Smart Cordless Vacuum is a terrific lightweight option for pet hair on hardwood floors and other bissell vacuum cleaner surfaces. Handheld vacuums are compact and easy to carry, making them perfect for spot-cleaning car interiors and furniture. The CleanView has swivel steering, so it’s easy to maneuver around even semi-cluttered furniture layouts, but it didn’t have as tight of a turning radius as other models. It’s fairly easy to push or pull across most surfaces, but it can drag a bit on fluffier carpet.
Read more about the Ryobi 18V One+ HP Cordless Pet Stick Vac Kit with Dual-Roller Bar in our guide to cordless stick vacuums. SEBO sells more attachments online, including a pet kit with a mini turbo brush and a grooming tool. We haven’t fully tested the kit, but we did try the pet-grooming brush. Test cat Tula grudgingly tolerated the brush, though it took a lot of treats. (The other two cats and the rabbits bolted.) Respect your pet’s wishes when trying one of these, and don’t force it.
The Dyson has a longer range, requires less maintenance, and has almost no recurring costs. It performs better on all surface types and comes with a pet grooming tool, which is nice for pet owners. It’s worth noting that there are multiple variants of this vacuum, which offer slightly different design features, like differing colorways or an automatic power cord retraction system. However, these differences won’t result in significant differences in debris pickup performance. Further details on the differences between models are outlined in the Differences Between Variants section of the review. As someone who suffers from hearing loss, I found this machine to be annoyingly loud, so I did a noise level check on it.
Carly Kulzer is a commerce writer for PEOPLE.com who’s covered pets, fashion, home, and more for four years, and she occasionally receives products to review and writes about her personal favorites. Carly Kulzer has been with Dotdash Meredith since 2018 and is currently an Entertainment Ecommerce Writer for People. As an owner of two dogs and two cats, she started primarily writing pets content for People in 2021.
Including a top-tested upright vacuum and a cordless Dyson for hardwood floors. In our tests, the RoboVac 11S Max cleaned about as well as the much pricier Roborock Q5. It effortlessly removed rice, Cheerios, cat litter, and even baking soda sprinkled close to baseboards (a rarity among even the most expensive robot models). As of early 2024, the 11S Max has one bissell crosswave cordless side brush (the model we originally tested had two). During testing, this vacuum efficiently ferreted out an unholy amount of fur and swept the whole batch into its extra-large dustbin. If your pets are shedding as if planning to join a nudist colony, and you’re too tired to drag out the ol’ plug-in vac, a robot vacuum is a great sidekick for midweek cleanups.