So with dogs becomes accidents. And with messy accidents comes a wife telling you to clean them up. 
She does have a good excuse there.
So we got some cleaning tools to help us out. We needed a replacement dust buster, ours stopped taking a charge long ago. We picked up a Dirt Devil Scorpion Turbo at Home Depot. I like it. It works great, has a lot fo power, and gets the job done. Only real downside I see is the exhaust vents on the side of the have some high winds coming out of them. If you are vacuuming something that can be blown around easily, use the extender attachment or the dust is gonna fly everywhere.
For the messier… well.. messes, we got a Spot lifter PowerBrush Handheld Deep Cleaner. Gonna have to say avoid this one if you can. The biggest downsides are a small liquid cleaner tank. Seriously, why would the pickup tank be about 4x the side of the cleaner tank. Plus to deploy said cleaner onto said stain, it’s a manual sprayer. You can get better coverage with a pump bottle with more liquid cleaner available. The suction and scrubber is good, but in the liquid deployment area it is very weak.
Both tools will help for spot cleaning. Though my wish list is to get a good wet cleaner that has some good brushes on the end of it. We borrow the local parents steam vac, but it doesn’t have any scrubbing action. It cleans, but takes a lot more passes on the carpet that I think is needed. A good steam vac with some good scrubbing brushes at the bottom would work wonders.
On the dry cleaning side of things, the wish list item is to get a vacuum with a bagless system that I can see how full it is getting. The current vacuum takes bags and it’s hard to tell how full it gets. Plus with how much hair we have in the house (3 huskies and 4 cats, hair-o-rama), it fills up fast so it takes a lot of bags. Something like this Bissell vacuum might be a good option. It has pet specific attachments and a clear dirt bin.
