We’ve been in our new house for almost a month now and I can now list one of the benefits of carpet: it holds down the Newf fur to prevent the tumbleweeds. Our new house has no carpet at all. It’s all tile and old hardwood floors and that’s the way we like it. Having spent our college years in Miami where everything is tile and wood, we couldn’t wait to get away from the carpet at our old rental house. But now that we’re here, we notice (now that Ayla is blowing coat as she grows in her adult fur) that there is nothing for the fur to stick to anymore. So it just sort of forms into tumbleweeds where it collects agains couch legs, appliances or anything else it comes into contact with. But the wind of a Newfie tail can quickly send it on a new journey into an entirely new room if it’s lucky. Ah the wonders of an open floor plan 😉
So now we basically need to vacuum every other day to keep the fur and dirt situation under control. Since it’s the rainy season in Frankfurt (Can someone PLEASE tell me when that ends exactly?!) and our walks are on farm roads, she tends to get dirty. And there is still quite a bit of loose dirt floating around our courtyard which she tracks in. The tiles in our kitchen are off white with a light brown structuring running through them which somehow always manages to look clean after the tumbleweeds & loose dirt have been vacated. Maybe we just need one of those vacuum cleaners that runs on its own…We’d probably need to replace it every year or so from wear & tear but it would certainly have its benefits.
