Dyson V8 Animal Cordless Stick Vacuum

There are extensive reviews on the product, so I will just highlight a few of the amazing features that I found stand out: (ranked in order of awesomeness) 0 - (didn’t feel like this could rank because it’s so obvious) but cordless has changed my life!!!! 1 - so lightweight you could run a 5k with it 2 - swivels on a dime (basically 360 degrees) 3 - can literally lay flat to vacuum under furniture 4 - sucks up literally anything... we have two medium pile wool natural fiber rugs and they did release some fibers but not too much shedding. I don’t think it’ll be an issue ongoing like several people mentioned. 5 - the canister emptying is genius (contrary to a previous review, I found it really intuitive) 6 - has turned me into the chronic clean freak that I always aspired to me 7 - I’m building up a nice callous in my thumb like the 70 yo male who left a review... he tells no lies, it broke the skin on even my 20 year old hands. But I’m going to stick with it and have a dang fine callous to show for it! 8 - the charge on the regular setting held for right at 40 minutes. The blue battery level buttons were helpful to know when you need to stop loitering and speed up your cleaning job! 9 - while this put a dent in my short term savings account, I was dancing around the house singing “best $400 that I ever spent!” 10 minutes into vacuuming. A few additional notes addressing previous issues mentioned in reviews: - the trigger issue... people mentioned how annoying it is to depress the power button the entire time. I have to admit, I was pretty nervous about this feature and thought I’d join them in finding this frustrating. and while I will say I think this is the only reason you risk getting a blister or callous because the way your finger has to stay poised on the trigger, I understand why this is a feature. Here’s why: this thing is so agile and so quick to move and swivel with you as you’re walking, that you basically can vacuum one handed while moving furniture out of the way and lifting to vacuum under rugs and stuff. And you honestly need the agility of pushing the power button on and off. It’s helpful because you normally wouldn’t turn a regular power button on and off as frequently as you do with this one. And I think that it is a fitting feature for this vacuum. - the one thing I do not like... gasp... dare I even admit there’s one thing, but I really wish there was a way to dock this puppy if you need to take a break mid-clean. In other words, it doesn’t stand upright on its own. So, you have to lay it on the ground or try and lean it against furniture, which isn’t the end of the world...it’s just too top heavy to stand upright which is a little bit of a bummer. - it doesn’t leave those gratifying carpet rows that show you vacuumed. I will say I kind of miss those, because I didn’t realize how subconscious those were to me feeling like my carpet was clean. So just know that your carpet is clean even though it doesn’t look like a well manicured field of corn after you vacuum. Closing remarks, we had an old DC17 Dyson tank that weighed 30 pounds and required you throw your whole body weight to maneuver. I have nerve damage from stepping on that cord at the wrong angle of my foot, and I shed blood and tears trying to haul that tank around my house for nearly a decade. I put in my time, and I’m so thankful we upgraded. This new beauty is the bomb! HIGHLY RECOMMEND!