Shark - Rotator Pet Upright Vacuum with PowerFins HairPro and Odor Neutralizer Technology ZU102

I don't recommend shark. We bought it, it's alright, but we still use our corded shark for the heavy lifting.

I have the Shark Rotator and really like it. It’s the white one with red trim

Corded Shark, I got my second one after 10 years. We have dogs, cats and kids. It does very well, would recommend.

Buy a shark vacuum to start. I used to have this problem going through vacuum’s every year but I bought the shark rotator pro about 8 years ago. Everything but that cardboard filter is washable. Makes keeping everything smelling fresh and clean and the belt has never even broken. Wash the filters regularly and buy a new cardboard filter every couple months. After i wash the foam filter it smells like fresh laundry when i sweep. Lol. It’s worth the investment. That gets rid of the carpet smell being in the air. You will also be amazed at what the shark picks up after your old vacuum. When you clean the carpets try adding and enzyme treatment in the carpet cleaning water solution. I learned that from a big apartment building landlord. It actually removed the smell of animals on the carpets. You could just sprinkle a lil baking soda until then when you vacuum. You could also make a homemade essential oil spray.

I have a corded Shark. It sucks... but in a good way.

It also picks up more than my old corded Shark (that I absolutely hated, but that’s neither here nor there I suppose) but people say corded is more powerful and I just think it really depends on what machine you’ve got with a battery and what machine you’ve got with a plug 🤷🏻

I had a Henry extra 5 years ago, it was fine. I replaced with a corded shark which has been better suction wise and has lasted 5 years but... I think it depends mainly on how much you want to care for it. For my shark I have the rollers to check, clean the housing, the anti hair wrap which eventually gets hair wrapped around it needs sorting. The dust collector needs washing out, the filter needs changing. Essentially it feels like there is always something than needs doing with it. With a Henry you just buy spare bags and stick them on, oh it's full changed the bag. Other than a quick wipe when he's grubby Henry will just keep going, no maintenance needed.

You may get different answers, but I don't think so. I've got a shark now, and don't find it works any differently than my old dyson, and it was quite a bit cheaper. I prefer corded models though, so not sure about other models.

I’m in sort of of the same boat. My wife trains service dogs and we have 5 dogs (and 3 kids) in the house. Also, because 5 dogs, my back yard is a mud farm and everything is coated in a layer of dirt. We have a tinneco pure 1 (it’s a stick vacuum with a base compartment). We vacuum the main part of the house where the dogs are (living room, laundry, entry, kitchen dining room). The living room really is the place we vacuum, 3-4 times a day but everything listed gets hit at least once a day (maybe twice in rainy days). We decided that making vacuuming convenient was more important than doing it super well (cause let’s face it, it’s gonna be dirty again in 5 minutes) and reliability took a back seat to convenience. So for us convenience > reliability > performance. We didn’t think ANY vacuum would make our floors 100% clean, so we didn’t try. Just get them 80% and but clean often. Then we mop probably every day or every other day…..(why do we have this many dogs again?) THEN we keep a corded shark in the basement where we keep their kennels. The shark is 5 years old and it sucks up everything but it’s heavy, so it stays in the basement) we also use this one to vacuum their kennels. We found that doing some work on our yard and cleaning the dogs as they come in, helped a ton. We still haven’t found a great solution yet. I rambled a lot. If you have any questions or suggestions for us. Let me know.

Got one. Thought it was pretty good. Suction started getting worse and worse. Had to replace dust door gasket. Paper filter became uncleanable after a while. After many complaints my ex finally went and bought a cheap ass Shark corded vac that was very similar. Difference was dramatic. Shark got lots of crap Ryobi couldn’t handle. This happened over about two years so it probably worked ok out of the box.