thought I should post this to the tips and advice section, seeing as my new advice to all
bengal owners is to get a Roomba vacuum cleaner!!!
Now that we're in our (temporary) new place, hubby offered me the choice between a once a week cleaner, or a roomba. I chose the latter.
I'm not convinced of how well it actually cleans as of yet, but it's supposed to be excellent at detecting room dimensions, where it has been before, where is has yet to go, and doing a really thorough cleaning job on the floors. What I HAVE found is that it is an excellent bengal toy! Pretty sure we're never going to get a good clean though, as she chases it around everywhere and jumps in front of it and confuses it so that it thinks it is about to hit a wall or something. It just turns around and starts vacuuming elsewhere and she jumps in front of it again and sends it in a completely different direction again. She even tried letting t run over her tail (although this didn't seem to deter it from its course!)
Well and truly worth it for the comic value! Once our video camera arrives I might manage to get something up on youtube of her antics