Comments on: Breaking up a fight between a dog and a robot

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:06:24 +0000

Togethah, we shall conquer the living room! Thanks–hadn’t seen this one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ-jv8g1YVI

By: E. Foley | Geek's Dream Girl

E. Foley | Geek's Dream Girl — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:55:21 +0000

My cats were first scared of, and then intrigued by the Roomba. It was great for cleaning up the cat litter from the area around their box.

The best ever video of a pet and a Roomba has to be the Roomba Driver video on YouTube. It’s a kitty sitting on a Roomba and letting it drive him around. Totally awesome.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:31:40 +0000

Michelle, oh, we are definitely going to need to see your “My Cats vs. The Roomba Pet Edition.” Since you have TWO cats, you’re basically doubling the entertainment pleasure! Excellent.

By: Michelle Russell

Michelle Russell — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:24:34 +0000

Okay, now I TOTALLY want to see “My Dogs vs. The Roomba Pet Edition”!

Hmmm. Maybe then I could borrow it from you and make the equivalent film about cats. I can just see it now . . . one of mine (the little one) would walk up to it unhesitatingly and start yelling at it. The other I’d have to unpeel from the ceiling, one claw at a time . . .

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:11:39 +0000

Khritteroo, good catch! How did I miss that? Thanks so much–it’s fixed now. If only my 7th grade English teacher could see her former spelling bee star now… [hangs head in shame]

By: Khritteroo

Khritteroo — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:08:10 +0000

Do you really mean “discrete”? Or were you thinking “discreet”? Not trolling (honestly!), but I very much like your writing and came to you via the Parisoma site. I thought you were funny and great and should not be held hostage by the spelling auto-correct tool. Wishing you well!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:01:24 +0000

Nathan, okay, that is a pretty wonderful image. I can totally see that in an episode. Ha!!!

Jessica, really? Your dog eats celery stalks!? The image of your dog chewing thoughtfully on a celery stick, making loud crunching sounds, cracks me up. So, since you are a proud owner of both a dog AND a Roomba, are you saying it DOESN’T pick up pet hair and dander? Or maybe you have one of those non-shedding dogs?

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:51:29 +0000

I have a Roomba and love it. Izzy (my dog) not so much–he hides when it comes out. I can only imagine how much more he’d hate it if it also *ate his food*. (Though, I do have probably the world’s only Lab who won’t eat food off the floor if it’s the wrong kind of Canidae–the celery stalks, on the other hand, he gobbles down along with cucumber peels…)

I wonder, though, if the problem is that it doesn’t pick up pet hair and dander very effectively and after they got the whole thing together they decided to sell it anyway, so the best they could come up with was that it picks up spilled dog food. (Because it seems like if it picks up large stuff well, it might not also pick up the small stuff.)

By: Nathan Briggs

Nathan Briggs — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:07:12 +0000

I have a wonderful mental image of Crazy Cat Lady from The Simpsons, outfitted with an army of cat-hair-collecting Roombas. Thanks Kelly!