Roomba and the 'Pooptastrophe'
6Roomba owners and wannabe owners might want to read this.
An Arkansas dad shared the story of how his family learned a messy lesson: “Do not, under any circumstances, let your Roomba run over dog poop.”
I don’t have any Rooma tales to match that one. The worst thing that has ever happened to me was having to crawl under the bed to rescue a meeping Rooma from a sock.
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It’s a caution that should be taken around any household with a robot vacuum and pet(s).
/youtube roomba dog poop
@narfcake I love how the dog leaves the room immediately, knowing full well it screwed up.
@narfcake I want that coffee table.
@narfcake had this happen with dog vomit. Took me days to figure out where the smell was coming from. The roomba bin was full, and it was all rubbed into an area rug with a similar color.
I honestly don’t know what they were expecting to happen.
This is precisely why we only run the Roomba (and the new Fuko Neato) when we’re home and have to hear them run, even though they both will run automatically on a schedule.
Think of the irony…
/giphy roomba problems
Cat poop is worse. And I want a roomba…or a scooba…or even a semi working fuko roomba
/giphy bad cat pop
@sarahsandroid Looks like you got a Pop Tart instead of Poop Tart.
@heartny and autocorrect strikes again
I saw this on the floor at a thrift store today. How can people just leave poop lying around like this?
@melonscoop Actually you’re looking at it upside down it’s “dood”
No dogs, and my cats don’t think outside the box, so no worries there. Of course, I keep my home far too cluttered for a robot vacuum to be of any use.
Won’t someone think of the irony?
@cmafba
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/irony
I don’t have dogs, but cat vomit is almost as bad and cat poop can be an issue as well. Also, I feed my cats wet food on paper plates, so I’d need something to fence off that area from the Roombas (virtual walls would work, but there are simpler and more reliable methods).
It is because of the possibility of randomly located gifts from my cats coupled with the lack of an adequate “poop detector” that I have not automated the starting of my two Roomba 530’s. I am too much of a realist to rely on “hasn’t happened before” given these variants and derivatives of “Murphy’s Law”