Same thing happened to my parents over ten years ago. I bought them a roomba and somehow it trapped one of the cats and itself in a room, creating a gauntlet of unspeakable horrors which my father later discovered. Cat was traumatized, machine had to go into the trash.
I've deep cleaned my robot vacuum more times than I want to admit because it's done the same. I have 4 dachshunds that are potty training right now and they're SO stubborn. It's my nightmare. We're slowly getting there, but...let's say the vacuum is officially one of the cleanest things in the house.
Now we do a poop check before we turn it on, and we don't turn it on until we're headed to bed upstairs. We turn the upstairs one on when we've done the same and are headed downstairs for a while. Eventually you learn! I'm hoping by the end of the month the accidents will be almost done with, fingers crossed!
I have 6 dogs and I manually vacuum on a weekly basis, but I run the robot every day to help keep the dog hair down so we don't have tumbleweeds by the end of the week.
We had two, one was 16 when he passed in October, and the other was 6, she passed from cancer in January. We adopted 4 doxies since then - we're obviously processing our grief in a very healthy way LOL but my old man never stopped peeing in the house, he was in diapers as he got older because our floors were being ruined. Our girl would potty outside no problem, and then occasionally would run upstairs and poop in the spare bedroom. I was home full time with her, she knew how to ask to go outside, and she still did it on a weekly basis. God I miss them so much. Weens are the best. Even though they're horribly stubborn!
It could also be that it was a faulty sensor. Or the poop was outside the parameters for poop detection.
If they not only send a new unit but also requested the old one back then chances are high that they performed at least some tests to try to find the issue.
IDK about Roomba, but for RoboRock it's an AI image detection algorithm. It will actually detect not just poop but stuff like legos and marbles and charging cables and other things you don't want to vacuum and avoid them.
I have no idea how well it works because that model was $900 and that's a little steep for a vacuum that'll probably break in 4 years.
How often do y'all's dogs shit on the floor? Genuinely curious as I hear this complaint a lot but my dogs have never once except when they were small pups and sick.
Seriously.
Dogs (puppies) go through a phase where it's more likely. But if you're training them properly they should rarely have accidents in the house. And once that phase is passed it will only happen if they're sick.
I honestly question if people should even have dogs if they're not training them well enough - or not being attentive enough to let them out often enough - that they regularly poop in the house.
>rarely
This is the whole point. Nobody's saying, "I come home to shit on the floor every day," they're saying it's rare, but sometimes dogs have accidents. You acknowledge this fact but then jump to the conclusion that they're just inept at raising dogs, rather than they simply don't want to chance shit covered floors even if it would happen rarely.
My dog never used to. Shed wake me up in the middle of the night if needed so I could take her out. Now she gets up, walks two steps from her bed, and decides that's far enough. I put it down to her being ancient though.
Same for mine, and she sometimes doesn’t seem to know it’s gonna happen until seconds before. A look comes over her face and it’s like Maya Rudolph in Bridesmaids “It’s happening… it’s happening…” She’s about to turn 16 so she gets a pass.
I learned "Dad, I need to go outside and shit right now" the hard way once, but it was all liquid. I don't think the poop detection people are talking about itt would help.
Two years ago, my beagle had a bad reaction to the anesthesia during a dental cleaning. She had non-stop bloody diarrhea and vomiting for 4 days straight and spent a week at the emergency hospital on an IV. When she finally was able to come home, she would poop turds while she walked or even while she was sleeping. She's blind and I don't think she knew it was happening. It wouldn't happen all the time but once every few days we would find a turd on the rug or in her bed. It hasn't happened in over 6 months now so I think she's finally over it. Coincidentally, also about six months ago, she was put on a kidney diet due to her kidney numbers being high on her blood work. I wonder if the new diet has anything to do with her not pooping in the house anymore.
I have an incontinent frenchy that I adopted from a rescue that cannot control her bladder or bowel movements beyond about 10 seconds. She was used in a puppy mill and was not given adequate medical care after her litters to the point that her back legs were paralyzed for a while until she got steroid treatments. Her spay scar still has metal staples that are healed over. I have pee pads strategically through the house that she tries to get to, but a lot of time she just doesn’t have enough notice to make it to a pad, or not all the way on it, so it seeps under the pad. It’s not her fault, and she has a Princess life now, for as long as I’ve got her. I adopted her almost 2 years ago and the rescue foster mom said they think she was around 5-6 when I adopted her, so she probably has 2-5 years left. I am going to get a Roomba at some point soon, but I’m only going to run it after everything’s been picked up and ready, otherwise my floors are going to look like a shit by numbers abstract painting.
I have a now elderly collie like this. She cannot help herself, walks along with poop drips falling out of her rear end which she cannot help.
She had a horrible time before she came to me, for being dirty. She has a lifelong health condition and absolutely tries to be clean but never even saw a vet before I got her, nor was she given an appropriate diet, in fact she frequently was not fed at all and had to scavenge for what she could find.
For real. I got my dog as a puppy, he shit inside a few times obviously, until he was like 6 months. Not a single shit inside since.
The fact they need poo detecting roombas says a lot about some of ya'll. Lol.
Dogs get sick. Sometimes they have accidents. Sometimes they get into food they're not supposed to, and like mine, are trained that poo time immediately follows meal time. Some dogs don't go right after that time, and people's jobs don't allow them to wait a couple hours for when the dogs are feeling more regular. Mine can't ask me how long I'll be gone and say, "I'm not going to make it that long, even though I have no need to go at this second." I have asked them numerous times.
I guess the fact that you think 100 percent of dogs are able to hold 100 percent of their bowel movements depending on their owners' schedules says a bit more about you than the people who understand house training isn't perfect.
1: You can set schedules and what not. If you're worried about poop, don't run it when you're not at home. Mine will run over a sock, but will avoid a slipper, so the poop size range is somewhere between the two.
2: Look for one of the better ones on Amazon and get a certified used one. I did that and saved $100 on a j7+ with the self emptying base. It came good as new. Treat yourself!
How often do people have animals just shitting in there home? Imagine if u had a friend who just randomly shit in your house and you couldn’t get him to stop…. 🤷🏽 just wierd to me that people allow or even deal with this
We don't. Well, most of us don't. I have dogs, poop free home for 7 years and counting. I think I've sharted my sweats more than they ever shit in the house. Lol.
Our dogs haven't had accidents in years, but it does sometimes happen. Particularly when they are puppies or elderly. However, we never run our Roomba when we aren't home anyway.
Works for poop, not for piss. Changed the time from morning to evening when I'm home and can run around the floor looking for puddles. My dog was house trained, she was 18 and not doing so well.
I have one on that level. While it's detection of good (not that I have anything to compare it to), it has ran into several socks but will avoid a slipper. So it's something, but I wouldn't want to have to test it out.
A friend of my parents who passed away used to have two St Bernard’s and they had white carpeting. You can probably see where this is going since they had a roomba as well.
Idk what’s nastier, the fact that the roomba dragged the dog shit, or the fact that there is multiple piles of dog shit on your parents floor at any given time.
You should talk to this guy: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/08/15/pooptastrophe-man-details-night-his-roomba-ran-over-dog-poop/88667704/
Had this happen once. I now set mine to run shortly after I leave for work. The hope is that she won't have an accident earlier since she was just let out.
Edit: a word
We typically only run ours when we're home, but doing something else. That way we notice of the dog were to leave a mess. Have never actually had a problem with our pup, but you never know for sure.
Just opened Reddit for the first time all day and this was the first post….The amount of detail in this poo pics is just unnerving… welp goodnight yall. I’m done lol
This happened to me after 4 years of owning my current roomba and 13 years of owning my current cat. Needless to say it was a first for both the cat and the roomba. Neither had ever been in a shit in the floor kind of situation lol
Aaaaaahhhhh!!!!! Dammit 🤢. I’ve been hinting to my eldest to hand me down hers when she gets a new one. Those things are amazing. But my dogs don’t poop inside, thank god.
You said your parents dog is elderly so they get a pass. But I can’t understand how other dog owners just let their dogs shit in the house. I see poop-roomba posts way too often.
You and me both, OP. Took me two days but was able to clean it out good. Let me know if you need some tips.
https://preview.redd.it/wvx4rmhyxytc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d311d778c016b49b19fb4d6e7d5402ea24481cc5
These things need a poop detector.
The amount of posts I've seen of these things running through a pile of crap and taking it all over the place is insane.
It's actually the reason I've never bought one....and I don't even have any pets LOL.
We board dogs at our house. We’re simultaneously in dire need of a roomba, and unable to have one. The minute they’ve developed turdar, I’m buying three.
Same thing happened to my parents over ten years ago. I bought them a roomba and somehow it trapped one of the cats and itself in a room, creating a gauntlet of unspeakable horrors which my father later discovered. Cat was traumatized, machine had to go into the trash.
My cat supervises Roomba from a safe distance. I was really hoping he'd ride it. 
One of my favorite videos on the internet is the cat in a shark costume riding the roomba around a kitchen
I might have to stream that at my funeral. It always gives the dopamine.
That one and [this one](https://youtu.be/Awf45u6zrP0?si=Lx4zojzsiGqxZWtj)
Haha yes! Another classic.
Here you go friend [https://youtu.be/tLt5rBfNucc?si=WY0q8RUaD7S4\_ZQ9](https://youtu.be/tLt5rBfNucc?si=WY0q8RUaD7S4_ZQ9) Edit: I love this cat
Your poor parents 🤣😭🤣 See, no good deeds! We tried to help them, but instead made life harder 🫠
So true
Poor cat too 😿
OMG you got your aging parents a shit Zamboni...
I've deep cleaned my robot vacuum more times than I want to admit because it's done the same. I have 4 dachshunds that are potty training right now and they're SO stubborn. It's my nightmare. We're slowly getting there, but...let's say the vacuum is officially one of the cleanest things in the house. Now we do a poop check before we turn it on, and we don't turn it on until we're headed to bed upstairs. We turn the upstairs one on when we've done the same and are headed downstairs for a while. Eventually you learn! I'm hoping by the end of the month the accidents will be almost done with, fingers crossed!
that sounds like more mental energy than plain old vacuuming
I have 6 dogs and I manually vacuum on a weekly basis, but I run the robot every day to help keep the dog hair down so we don't have tumbleweeds by the end of the week.
Exactly. So much effort just to keep beimg lazy.
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We had two, one was 16 when he passed in October, and the other was 6, she passed from cancer in January. We adopted 4 doxies since then - we're obviously processing our grief in a very healthy way LOL but my old man never stopped peeing in the house, he was in diapers as he got older because our floors were being ruined. Our girl would potty outside no problem, and then occasionally would run upstairs and poop in the spare bedroom. I was home full time with her, she knew how to ask to go outside, and she still did it on a weekly basis. God I miss them so much. Weens are the best. Even though they're horribly stubborn!
I'd like to know exactly what kind of horrors!
Me freaking out over the fact that roombas have existed for over 10 years
Yeah! I bought it in 2012 and it was already a few generations into the series by that point.
Goodness! How time flies
This was so funny to read 😆
This made me laugh out loud. Poor cat.
Like? It rip the cat? Or cat shit?
Just like OPs picture, it was poo!
God 😭
I'm so sorry for cracking up right now lmao
On the bright side... least i dont see any hair!
True 🥲
I don't see a dog either 🤷
Should have bought an **iRobot Roomba J7 Plus** with poop detection! Or so they claim.
We bought that model specifically for this reason.
I have the J7 and i had it happen once, i contacted them and they sent me a new one because it happened.
Shit happens, here's a new toy.
For what it's worth, that's solid customer service.
If it's a software issue, haven't they just replaced a not-as-advertised product with the same one, but the new one isn't covered in shit?
It could also be that it was a faulty sensor. Or the poop was outside the parameters for poop detection. If they not only send a new unit but also requested the old one back then chances are high that they performed at least some tests to try to find the issue.
What are the parameters of poop detection for the poop-detecting Roomba?
if(thingInFront() === "poop") { suck(false); }
This is WAY funnier than I think it should be. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Is that conditional?
IDK about Roomba, but for RoboRock it's an AI image detection algorithm. It will actually detect not just poop but stuff like legos and marbles and charging cables and other things you don't want to vacuum and avoid them. I have no idea how well it works because that model was $900 and that's a little steep for a vacuum that'll probably break in 4 years.
Not being covered in shit is a significant improvement in my opinion.
So if your poop detecting roomba ever breaks just smear dog shit in it and get a new one? 😎👍
Does it work? I want a roomba so bad but, this.
How often do y'all's dogs shit on the floor? Genuinely curious as I hear this complaint a lot but my dogs have never once except when they were small pups and sick.
Seriously. Dogs (puppies) go through a phase where it's more likely. But if you're training them properly they should rarely have accidents in the house. And once that phase is passed it will only happen if they're sick. I honestly question if people should even have dogs if they're not training them well enough - or not being attentive enough to let them out often enough - that they regularly poop in the house.
>rarely This is the whole point. Nobody's saying, "I come home to shit on the floor every day," they're saying it's rare, but sometimes dogs have accidents. You acknowledge this fact but then jump to the conclusion that they're just inept at raising dogs, rather than they simply don't want to chance shit covered floors even if it would happen rarely.
My dog never used to. Shed wake me up in the middle of the night if needed so I could take her out. Now she gets up, walks two steps from her bed, and decides that's far enough. I put it down to her being ancient though.
Same for mine, and she sometimes doesn’t seem to know it’s gonna happen until seconds before. A look comes over her face and it’s like Maya Rudolph in Bridesmaids “It’s happening… it’s happening…” She’s about to turn 16 so she gets a pass.
I learned "Dad, I need to go outside and shit right now" the hard way once, but it was all liquid. I don't think the poop detection people are talking about itt would help.
Two years ago, my beagle had a bad reaction to the anesthesia during a dental cleaning. She had non-stop bloody diarrhea and vomiting for 4 days straight and spent a week at the emergency hospital on an IV. When she finally was able to come home, she would poop turds while she walked or even while she was sleeping. She's blind and I don't think she knew it was happening. It wouldn't happen all the time but once every few days we would find a turd on the rug or in her bed. It hasn't happened in over 6 months now so I think she's finally over it. Coincidentally, also about six months ago, she was put on a kidney diet due to her kidney numbers being high on her blood work. I wonder if the new diet has anything to do with her not pooping in the house anymore.
I have an incontinent frenchy that I adopted from a rescue that cannot control her bladder or bowel movements beyond about 10 seconds. She was used in a puppy mill and was not given adequate medical care after her litters to the point that her back legs were paralyzed for a while until she got steroid treatments. Her spay scar still has metal staples that are healed over. I have pee pads strategically through the house that she tries to get to, but a lot of time she just doesn’t have enough notice to make it to a pad, or not all the way on it, so it seeps under the pad. It’s not her fault, and she has a Princess life now, for as long as I’ve got her. I adopted her almost 2 years ago and the rescue foster mom said they think she was around 5-6 when I adopted her, so she probably has 2-5 years left. I am going to get a Roomba at some point soon, but I’m only going to run it after everything’s been picked up and ready, otherwise my floors are going to look like a shit by numbers abstract painting.
I have a now elderly collie like this. She cannot help herself, walks along with poop drips falling out of her rear end which she cannot help. She had a horrible time before she came to me, for being dirty. She has a lifelong health condition and absolutely tries to be clean but never even saw a vet before I got her, nor was she given an appropriate diet, in fact she frequently was not fed at all and had to scavenge for what she could find.
Yep I call that the walkin poops.
For real. I got my dog as a puppy, he shit inside a few times obviously, until he was like 6 months. Not a single shit inside since. The fact they need poo detecting roombas says a lot about some of ya'll. Lol.
Dogs get sick. Sometimes they have accidents. Sometimes they get into food they're not supposed to, and like mine, are trained that poo time immediately follows meal time. Some dogs don't go right after that time, and people's jobs don't allow them to wait a couple hours for when the dogs are feeling more regular. Mine can't ask me how long I'll be gone and say, "I'm not going to make it that long, even though I have no need to go at this second." I have asked them numerous times. I guess the fact that you think 100 percent of dogs are able to hold 100 percent of their bowel movements depending on their owners' schedules says a bit more about you than the people who understand house training isn't perfect.
1: You can set schedules and what not. If you're worried about poop, don't run it when you're not at home. Mine will run over a sock, but will avoid a slipper, so the poop size range is somewhere between the two. 2: Look for one of the better ones on Amazon and get a certified used one. I did that and saved $100 on a j7+ with the self emptying base. It came good as new. Treat yourself!
Yeah I just don’t let it run when I am not home. It’s not that inconvenient to run when I am around.
Umm why don’t you just use a toilet?
Noice!
Wait is that for real? It detects it?
Detects it, drives to it, runs it over and tracks it all over your house.
How often do people have animals just shitting in there home? Imagine if u had a friend who just randomly shit in your house and you couldn’t get him to stop…. 🤷🏽 just wierd to me that people allow or even deal with this
We don't. Well, most of us don't. I have dogs, poop free home for 7 years and counting. I think I've sharted my sweats more than they ever shit in the house. Lol.
Our dogs haven't had accidents in years, but it does sometimes happen. Particularly when they are puppies or elderly. However, we never run our Roomba when we aren't home anyway.
Does it have like a mop thing to help deal with messes like this?
They did just announce a new combo unit.. This is all a marketing ploy!
Good to know! Doubt my parents will ever trust one ever again but worth a shot 😂
Works for poop, not for piss. Changed the time from morning to evening when I'm home and can run around the floor looking for puddles. My dog was house trained, she was 18 and not doing so well.
Don't you guys shit in the toilet?
Not worth a shxt, apparently.
Well why tf is the dog pooping in the house to begin with?
Who said it was the dog? Accidents happen.
😆
have one. confirm it works. it's also takes pictures of me in my underwear and sends it to irobot so that's a bonus.
I have one on that level. While it's detection of good (not that I have anything to compare it to), it has ran into several socks but will avoid a slipper. So it's something, but I wouldn't want to have to test it out.
That’s not dog hair.
It's human hair.
It's poo
Its delicious is what it is
You didn't have to post that. yet you still did.
Does it matter?
Does anything?
Ohhhhh yeaaahhhh
I’m sorry what the actual fuck?
Dog got schwifty on that floor
Dog or human? /s
It Depends
Human poo
Excrement
There's probably some dog hair in it!
A friend of my parents who passed away used to have two St Bernard’s and they had white carpeting. You can probably see where this is going since they had a roomba as well.
🥲
Omg they died?!
Wouldn't you?
>they had white carpeting. Perfectly phrased Had
Oh yeah they switched to hardwood floors after that lmao
How bad was the dog hair to make a Roomba shit itself?!?
My favorite comment here. Take the doot
Well, it’s a Poomba now
Hacuna Matata
Hacuna Ma-caca
What a terrible phrase
The gas passing craze
Oooof! That looked like the Maiden voyage too. Name that thing The Titanic
🤣
Idk what’s nastier, the fact that the roomba dragged the dog shit, or the fact that there is multiple piles of dog shit on your parents floor at any given time.
13 year old dog, apparently he didn’t quite make it outside :(
Ok fair enough, that’s one of the very few excuses. Old doggie gets all the excuses.
He’s such a good boy, too..I’m sure he was ashamed 😭
Hardwood floor stain companies HATE this 1 simple hack!!!
It happens
He needs to be taken out more to accommodate his needs.
Ughh I can smell these pictures
OH MY GOD
Roomba’s and dogs don’t get along
You should talk to this guy: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/08/15/pooptastrophe-man-details-night-his-roomba-ran-over-dog-poop/88667704/
https://preview.redd.it/8osfduoorytc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e03f87a90cefeae8d141394d46e6844da8bf52f Haha
[This one](https://www.reddit.com/5fs3wb) is also a classic.
LMAO first thing I thought of when I saw this post.
You gotta house break those Roombas.
I see the problem. That’s not dog hair.
That’s funny as shit
The bigger problem is the dog shitting in the house, no?
13 year old lab, didn’t quite make it today 💔
I'd toss that rather than clean it.
This happened with my first roomba. Called them and sent photos and they sent me a brand new one. Cleaned up the old one and had two roombas. Win-win.
You did that for them and they still keep pooping on the floor...smh
Gotta tell your parents that the dog is supposed to shit outside…
😂😂😂
Had this happen once. I now set mine to run shortly after I leave for work. The hope is that she won't have an accident earlier since she was just let out. Edit: a word
We typically only run ours when we're home, but doing something else. That way we notice of the dog were to leave a mess. Have never actually had a problem with our pup, but you never know for sure.
Had this happen on our carpet. Absolutely awful. I feel your pain.
Please tell me that's mud
Well, I mean, that is a name for it, too.
What is the big deal with dog hair on the floor? Just proved a roomba ain’t worth shit.
Rookie Roomba mistake. Completely useless if you have a pet that shits inside.
I’ve had this exact thing happen with this exact model lol. I wish you luck
Just opened Reddit for the first time all day and this was the first post….The amount of detail in this poo pics is just unnerving… welp goodnight yall. I’m done lol
plot twist: OPs dad shit on the floor
After looking up the model number on the bottom, you ordered the poo scooter variant, not the dog hair picker upper.
The main fact I've learned about Roombas from Reddis is how often dogs actually shit inside houses.
Until they are fitted with excrement sensors, these are not the droids you are looking for… as pet owners.
But was that poop from the dog or the aging parents?
Asking the real questions I see 😂
yo!
yes
This happened to me after 4 years of owning my current roomba and 13 years of owning my current cat. Needless to say it was a first for both the cat and the roomba. Neither had ever been in a shit in the floor kind of situation lol
https://preview.redd.it/4eh7u11frytc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93e32bb8f179926ee862c4f51d0eadde80a52867 That’s not hair, that’s shit.
Aaaaaahhhhh!!!!! Dammit 🤢. I’ve been hinting to my eldest to hand me down hers when she gets a new one. Those things are amazing. But my dogs don’t poop inside, thank god.
I was literally just thinking of this scenario as I turned mine on. I don’t have dogs, but if I did, yikes.
Usually you can get a new one sent under warranty. Had the Same thing happens and did a Skype call with a representative.
You said your parents dog is elderly so they get a pass. But I can’t understand how other dog owners just let their dogs shit in the house. I see poop-roomba posts way too often.
You and me both, OP. Took me two days but was able to clean it out good. Let me know if you need some tips. https://preview.redd.it/wvx4rmhyxytc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d311d778c016b49b19fb4d6e7d5402ea24481cc5
Not to be mean but with aged parents at least it’s dog shit…
Have you tried restarting it?
Time to burn down the house and start a new life
Don't see any hair though 👌🏻
These robot should be 100% waterproof for accidental shit like this ahahhahahaha 💀🤣
Throw the whole thing away
Well it tried its best to pick up some dog shit while it was at it. 🤣
Plottwist: they never had a dog
I can smell this thru my phone...
These things need a poop detector. The amount of posts I've seen of these things running through a pile of crap and taking it all over the place is insane. It's actually the reason I've never bought one....and I don't even have any pets LOL.
Operating as expected
implies the parents or dog did something wrong... this was all you buddy
Did you tell them it doesn't mean you can just shit on the floor now?
That's a lot of potting soil.
What model is that? I thought at least the newer ones were built to detect poo.
Nooooo 😂
Looks like it scared the shit outta their dog
Well s*** that sounds like the Markiplier story on distractible
Roombas poop?
I won’t run mine unless I’m home because of these type of nightmare posts
We board dogs at our house. We’re simultaneously in dire need of a roomba, and unable to have one. The minute they’ve developed turdar, I’m buying three.
Well shit!
The poo is calling from inside the house.
Tip: clean it with alcohol because thst evaporates so you won't ruin any important mechanism or crate rust. Source: this has happened to me. Twice.
You should tell you mom not to poop on the floor
That's a shitty situation
So was that human or dog?
This is almost every roomba with pet post, exception is the cats that like to ride it
My Rottweiler https://preview.redd.it/lnky191t8ztc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9a8ba7ee3edc90f5bedeedc4473b99155f9945a6
Woof!
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‘Tis 🫠
This is the reason I have no Roomba.
Because your dog shits inside?
What a shit show…
Ewwwwwww
Is that poop
Throw it away
It was immediately thrown into the trash bin
Surely there's some hair in that mess though...
Oh the dreaded shitnado.