It works, Updated November 2006
I have to say that I was impressed with the animal. We have two dogs a bird and two kids so there is plenty to pick up. I have always had commercial type vacs that are heavy but do the job ok. This vac works extremely well. No bags no mess just results. Doing the stairs was actually very easy. We have 80% wall to wall but this worked just as well on bare floors too. It is worth it so far. My $.02It STILL WORKS!!!