Michael Thomas wrote
in oups.com:

replying to Al, Michael Thomas wrote:
acunniff wrote:

When we vacuum our rugs it makes the room smell like "stale dog"
(for lack of a better phrase) for a while. We do have a dog, a small
(clean) Bichon, but she has no noticeable smell, and 'way back
when our vacuums didn't raise a dog smell.
We formerly used a Eureka bagged vacuum cleaner, and we thought
the smell was due to that cleaner, so we switched to our current
Hoover twin-chamber bagless. The Hoover is actually worse than
the Eureka, as it tosses out fine dust while it vacuums!
Any advice on how we can get rid of the dog smell, and whether
we should consider switching from the Hoover? Thanks.


I used to have that problem. I owned a Kirby G6 best of the best or so
I thought...
Didn't own a dog and my vac would smell up the entire house every
saturday. I used the HEPA bags and did everything that I was supposed
to but nothing helped. Then I had a Rainbow sales lady show up. She
did a few simple demonstrations:

1 She held a spotlight next to my bag while the Kirby was running but
not picking up dirt (looked like a dustbowl in the midwest)
2 She held up the same spotlight next to the Rainbow NO DUST AT ALL
Rainbow filters with water (wet dirt don't fly)
3 Had me vacuum a high traffic area 1ft by 2ft for several minutes
until I was sure it was clean (so I thought)
4 Went over the same area with the Rainbow 1 time and picked up a
handful of dirt I was shocked and sold
Then came the sticker shock $3500 I was impressed but not that
impressed. So off I go to Craigslist and found a second hand previous
generation Rainbow for $150 that price I can handle. Of course this
machine was only about 80% of the power and cleaning ability (still
way better than any other machine you can buy). Bonus: it was a
fraction of the price of the new one. I was so impressed when I used
it for the first time it cleaned so well the water turned to mud. I
have since had several vacuum cleaner salesmen come to the house and
when they see I have a Rainbow they just give up and leave. So I went
from being a die hard Kirb user for 20+ years to a Rainbow and I can
say that I will never own anything else.

Bonus I was able to get rid of my shop vac and this machine cleans the
air while you vacuum I no longer have to dust every week,


$3500? !! When was that?

Bought a Rainbow somewhere in the 1990 timeframe. 700-800 range I think.