My pups all run when I turn it on...except for our 15 wk old Biewer. He, like V-'s girls, crawls on top of the dumb machine and rides it. If I leave it on long enough he actually goes to sleep on it! I e-mailed the breeder in Germany cause I thought it was so funny I wanted to share it with her. She told me that one of her adult females was so terrified of the machine it almost made the pup sick. So she started leaving the vacume cleaner right next to the baby puppies and turned it on at various times during the day. The pups learned the sound and learned to play "by and on" it. Said she had never had trouble since with the babies. She didn't want that "fear" transmitted to her other dogs. Guess it works, but its hell to try to vacume with a 3 lb dog "riding" on it. We go from room to room with him jumping on and off of it. Cute now...wonder what it will be as he gets bigger and heavier?
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