Our Tiffany R.I.P didn't care for them either but would just leave the room when my wife entered it with the vacuum,face it...to them it's a large ugly noisy creature thats moving around in their territory.
One of my earliest memorys was of my mother vacuuming the house when i couldn't have been more than 2 or 3 and remember it scared the livin' beejesus out'a me!!