My brother and I, when we were young, sucked our budgie up the vacuum cleaner once. The bird liked to talk into the wand because of the echo, but the temptation proved too much for us and one day while he was chattering into it, we turned the machine on. Fortunately he survived and we were able to pull him out of the hose by his tail feathers.

Our dogs attack both vacuums and didgeridoos.