I have a long haired cat who loves to roll on soft surfaces. Naturally her fur is on all furniture, rugs, and carpets. This vacuum is a dream at picking up pet hair and cat litter! The SurfaceSense Life Off makes it very easy to transition from one surface to the next. For Example my living room / dining roomis hard tile surfaces with rugs and I could vacuum under my dining room chairs easily to vacuuming between sofa cushions to cat's kitty litter corner. My previous vacuum required multiple passes to get all the fur from the carpets. But the Bissel got the fur in just a couple of passes. It even got the glitter from my holiday decorations that previously refused to be vacuumed up.