Dyson - Dyson V7 Animal
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Last updated: Aug 27, 2025 Scoring
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"I live in a 2700 square foot cookie-cutter tract house. First floor is laminate with an office that has carpet. Then there’s the stairs which leads to 5 carpeted bedrooms, two tile bathrooms, a laundry room, and a walk-in carpeted closet. I can get all of that done one charge."
"being cordless and effective for what I need. ... For some the tradeoff for cordless, no bags, good suction, etal means we vacuum more than we otherwise would. ... I never would have thought I'd defend a near $1,000 cordless vacuum but I got one as a gift and will never buy anything different now."
"I love the dyson stick vacuum for quick pickups."
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"I’ve had my Dyson animal for years & it’s a workhorse. ... Absolutely swear by it"
"It’s 20 years old and it’s still working."
"I also used my Dyson stick vacuum for my 1000sf house, cleaned weekly plus as-needed clean ups. It’s still going strong 5+ years later."
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"Mine sheds consistently so the lightness and suction power makes it easy to do a few quick pickups a day vs long, thorough cleans that last all of 2 hrs."
"Had 3 goldens can’t live without the Dyson animal."
"Dyson Animal is the only way to go for us. ... We have 3 labs and 3 longhaired cats so we need something heavy duty. ... We ve tried multiple brands but we always end up going back to Dyson."
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"I live in a 2700 square foot cookie-cutter tract house. First floor is laminate with an office that has carpet. Then there’s the stairs which leads to 5 carpeted bedrooms, two tile bathrooms, a laundry room, and a walk-in carpeted closet. I can get all of that done one charge."
"Bought a $20 battery on Amazon last year and it runs like a champ."
"I also used my Dyson stick vacuum for my 1000sf house, cleaned weekly plus as-needed clean ups. It’s still going strong 5+ years later."
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"Mine sheds consistently so the lightness and suction power makes it easy to do a few quick pickups a day vs long, thorough cleans that last all of 2 hrs."
"Need to vacuum up sawdust and aluminum chips and plastic shavings and metal filings? The Dyson will do it."
"has crazy strong suction"
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"My cordless Dyson lasted 3 years. ... not worth having to replace every 3 years"
"the battery seems to not last as long"
"The Dyson battery was internal so you can't swap out a battery if it dies on you."
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"The out of warranty repair cost was 75% of what a new one would cost so I chucked it."
"terrible when something goes wrong. ... We used to just write them off if it was anything more than a blockage. ... Dyson are also very difficult to deal with to get parts etc. ... sourcing the parts for the customer and general support."
"My cordless Dyson lasted 3 years. ... not worth having to replace every 3 years"
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"you still have to clean the heads periodically because of the amount of cat hair that clog up the works!"
"I melted three Dyson pet vacs ... Hair melts the plastic eventually"
"if ANYTHING other than fur gets picked up, (twig, leaf, pine needle, moss), the Dyson immediately stops sucking. ... Then I have to take apart the hoses and manually clean them out. ... So, on average, for every whole house cleaning, I have two manual unclogging sessions. ... The air path in the Animal and Multi-Floor models have three 60 ° turns which is where the clogs occur."
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"The thing would not suck up the bigger chunks of dog hair on hard floors bc the head sits too close to the ground, so it ends up pushing bigger debris out of the way. ... I kept having to lift it up then drop it on top of the chunks of hair to suck it up. ... Sometimes it would kick the dog hair out instead of sucking it up. ... I was getting so mad and was very tempted to drive 20 minutes to my place for my Shark."
"But it was literally just pushing around debris on the floor."
"the amount of dog hair / ETC it can get out of the carpet vs the Dyson Cordless cannot be compared."
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"I hate to hold pressing the power button all the time."
"I couldn’t get over having to press the button down the entire time vacuuming."
"I have to baby it like it’s royalty. ... treat it like the sweet, fragile baby that it is."
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