Dog smell in bagless vacuum cleaner

Jethro_uk · 2013-04-16T16:04:58+00:00

The outlaws have kindly gifted us a bagless Vax vacuum cleaner. Unfortunately they have a dog, so the dust container stinks of dog, and when you fire the thing up it pumps doggy smell into the room. Is it possible to remove the smell. It has one filter you can clean, and one you can't (apparently). Would changing filters and soaking the dust container in bleach do the trick ?

Apr 16, 2013 57 Replies

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John Williamson 13 years ago

So you don't live in the UK, then? That is a place which is normally counted as part of Europe.

Maybe you're a leftpondian denizen. In which case, my apologies for overestimating your countrymen's knowledge of other countries. If, on the other hand, you're Australian, you have my sympathy for having to live so close to Wodders.

Still, my statement that I *personally* have never met a dog that did not have a distinctive odour stands as a fact, no matter where you are.

Maybe English is not your first language?

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bod 13 years ago

Erm! the UK IS in Europe.

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John Williamson 13 years ago

Ahbut, is Mr. Pounder's bridge *in* the UK?

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The Natural Philosopher 13 years ago

Indeed, According to EU law the UK actually doesn't exist at all. Its is

7 or 8 European Regions and Brussels has full sovereignty. over it.

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bod 13 years ago

:-)

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bod 13 years ago

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Tim Streater 13 years ago

No they don't. That's the good thing about them, they don't need training in that regard.

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Tim Streater 13 years ago

I do.

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bod 13 years ago

Of course they don't smell and we've had 8 of em over the years.

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Mr Pounder 13 years ago

Oh they will you know. I once knew a cat owner who was at work and forgot to put down the s*it trays. She came home to a carpet full of s*it. And yes, there was a cat flap. Oh, it was raining. Dirty bloody things are cats.

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John Williamson 13 years ago

To be fair, I have known stressed, un-modified cats to spray indoors on occasion. That leaves a fairly obvious reek hanging round for quite a while.

Are the attributions right? Someone's newsreader had made a right hash of them.

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Mr Pounder 13 years ago

Is it really?

I detest Australians.

It is.

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Mr Pounder 13 years ago

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The Other Mike 13 years ago

I take that as a compliment.

Remember a dog is not just for Christmas, there is often enough left over for a fry up on Boxing Day.

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The Other Mike 13 years ago

Then you'd be wrong. Maybe it's just those who don't own cats or dogs that seem to be able to detect the odour. It's not marking, it's not s*it or piss, it's something else. All houses with cats or dogs have it. Owners of dogs or cats often carry it.

P.S. I really like cats, but don't have one. I have no time for dogs, they are filthy disgusting dangerous smelly creatures..just like their owners.

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Gazz 13 years ago

Bollocks, it's only because you are used to their smell that you don't notice it,

When ever i go to my other halfs parents, the first thing i can smell is cat piss from the litter box that is located in the bathroom upstairs, Then i can detect the smell of the dirty little bastards spunking over the sofas to mark them,

Of course i can also see the shredded curtains and sofa corners as evidence cats lives there too,

everyone who lives in that house are totally oblivious to the smells and claim they don't exist,

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Grimly Curmudgeon 13 years ago

Ferk, I hope yours is spayed. The prospect of a Cat/Pounder creature...

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Grimly Curmudgeon 13 years ago

I think Comprehension is not his first language.

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