I've had the vacuum for a few months and it's so bad, I'm giving up and going to buy a Shark. This vacuum is poorly designed. All the dog hair gets stuck between the hose and the container - it never makes it past the connection, it builds up and gets stuck. This mean I have to empty it way more often and have to remove the whole top part to fish out all the hair. Emptying the container from the bottom doesn't even matter, since every time I have to take the full purple top off. Screw this!!!