Suck it up!

February 18.  On this day in 1901, a man by the name of Hubert Cecil Booth took out a patent on the first suction vacuum cleaner.   All modern vacuum cleaners are based on his early model.  Honestly, I’m surprised my human doesn’t have a portrait of him over our mantle.  We seem to go through vacuum cleaners like people go through toilet paper.  Well.  Maybe not THAT much.  But seriously, my human should be writing her very own vacuum-cleaner-review-for-pet-owners-blog.   I mean this woman has tried everything from – very expensive models to very cheap models.  She has had canister vacuums and upright vacuums.  Hand held models, and models capable of sucking up water. She even got a vacuum as a Valentine gift many years ago.  Some women get excited about flowers.  My human can’t contain her excitement over a new vacuum.

We are actually awaiting delivery of a new model that she ordered on-line.  She went to a store looking for a particular model with VERY specific features.  The store didn’t carry it, but by the time she finished talking to the salesperson, he was looking up the one she wanted on-line to see where he could find one for himself.  I won’t give out the details until it comes in and she has the chance to review it.   

We dogs, of course, have our own opinion of vacuum cleaners.  We play a game of block-uum.  We each lie strategically in the path of the oncoming vacuum.  So my human must continually get us to move.  It’s great fun. 

So today we celebrate that amazing invention that makes my human’s life so “wonderful”.   Honestly.  Humans are sometimes just so weird.  But we still love them.

© Linda Wozniak