[Slave to the Wheek]

Oh wow! Such great posts! Thanks everyone..but please keep them coming!

I suspected that using a hand vac sounds like a good idea at first, but then may not work out long term and it's beginning to sound like that just might be the case for most folks.

By the way, my own shop vac is very tiny. At 2.5 gallons it's about the size of 2 milk gallon jugs. It also fits under my cage into one of the cube squares easily. It comes with optional filter that's for catching hair. I change the filter every 3 months, and dump the little bucket about once a week. It also has a hose that is the size of a regular vacuum instead of the normal really fat hoses that shop vacs normally have.

I do wonder how people use regular shop vacs though because the hoses on those are really huge and seem cumbersome and hard to use. I don't think I could get my hands around them, but then they seem like they would suck hay without getting stuck --and maybe a guinea pig or two though--hehe.

We have dirtdevil here too. Do you mean the one with the beater bar? I have that one and it seems like it would be a nightmare for poops, Hmm I never even tried it, although I forgot that you can add a hose to the front of it.

I would love to hear more stories! This is very interesting! I have big dreams for my project and since you all know of my tendency to talk someone to death, you can imagine my problems with editing! I plan on running it by everyone here though so you'll all get to watch it eventually. I plan on having done by this time next year. I haven't decided what to do with it when it's done though.