7 Meet My Nemeses:

What do you mean you don't see him?!?  He's RIGHT there, front and center!  Look again. YES.  That's right.  That RUG.  I loved it when I purchased it.  So nice and thick and beautiful.  But then I got him home and he reared his ugly, shaggy head!  The thing sheds like there is no tomorrow.  Seriously, am I stuck with the shedding or is it new rug syndrome?  Although he is a year old now, so he really isn't new in my book. When we first got him all I had was my central vac which was just not up to the task of keeping Shaggy-here's fiber-bunnies from reaching every corner of my living room... not to mention under the couches - ohhh, don't get me going about under the couches!   Then I met my hero:

This guy grabs those fibers like nobody's business! This is under one minute of running good ole' Sucky over Shaggy {hmmmm... does that sound inappropriate?}:

See?  {No - that is not all grossness on my rug - I took the rug picture BEFORE vacumming! Those are the fibers - and maybe a little of my hair - that you are looking at!} You can only imagine where those would go if I didn't have a good vacumm to manage it all!  In your experience am I bound forever with a fiberous rug {until I can't stand it anymore and buy a new one} or will it eventually slow its shedding down? I'm still on vacation without computer access, but seriously had to get this off my chest, so won't you please help me?   I look forward to reading your resonses when I get home!