We have two cats and two dogs. It seems as though we have animal hair everywhere. This is quite literally the first vacuum in which we do not have to use over and over to get all the hair. It picks up the hair easily, even the coarser and harder hair of my St Bernard. We can make one round in all of the rooms whereas our old took going through at least twice. It also has an automatic cord retrieval with a foot button. I LOVE that also. The emptying of the container is also quite easy. I DEFINITELY recommend and am SO glad to have it!