This grooming vacuum has rocketed to #1 of all of my Amazon purchases!Kiba (kEba) is a Husky / Great Pyrenees mixed-breed rescue. He’s a very good boy, but he doesn’t just shed hair balls. He sheds tumbleweed!He’s very skittish of any vacuum and left the room as soon as I removed the unit from the box. Here’s how I overcame that:1) I brushed him a few times with just the brush head, keeping the unit out of his sight.2) Next, I added the hose to the brush head and brushed him a few more times.3) I then connected the hose to the vacuum and brushed him a few times without starting the vacuum and keeping the vacuum as far as possible from the brush head. The flexible hose made that possible.4) Now, I only run the vacuum long enough to clear the brush head. I let Kiba watch the fur disappear and I make a game of it, saying, “Where’d the fur go?” He’s fascinated by the disappearing fur and seems to enjoy being brushed and having his coat thinned with the thinning attachment!Thank you, Autens, for helping to make our house and my truck free of Kiba “tumbleweed”!