Many people with both dogs and a Roomba have the same fear.

It’s a dread that haunts them in their waking and sleeping hours equally.

What if my Roomba runs over dog poop in the middle of the night?

It’s a horror that one man experienced firsthand. Now, he wants us all to learn from his experience. He is reaching out to others in his time of suffering to ensure they don’t make the same mistakes.

Do not ever let your Roomba run over dog poop.

Roomba and new puppies need to be monitored.

If you have a new puppy that is not yet 100% house trained, and you also have a Roomba, you might have a recipe for disaster brewing in your home. The man in this story began his post by explaining his family forgot to let their new puppy out before they went to bed. The results were horrific.

“Sometime between midnight and 1:30am, our puppy Evie pooped on our rug in the living room. This is the only time she’s done this, so it’s probably just because we forgot to let her out before we went to bed that night”

Forgetting to let your dog out at night can be uncomfortable for them. It can be even more uncomfortable for you if you have a Roomba running in the middle of the night as well.

“Our Roomba runs at 1:30am every night, while we sleep. And it found the poop. And so begins the Pooptastrophe. The poohpocalypse. The pooppening,” he continued.

How to create a pooptacular Jackson Pollock-esque work of art.

The latest models of Roomba come with a camera and sensors to avoid hazards such as dog poop. That’s not what this man was working with, however.

The new Roomba uses AI to avoid smearing dog poop all over your house.

“But in order to make this possible, the company first had to create a diverse dataset of poop.”https://t.co/sXwXe9YvSW

— hardmaru (@hardmaru) September 10, 2021

He continued to detail his nightmare come to life.

“Do not, under any circumstances, let your Roomba run over dog poop. If the unthinkable does happen, and your Roomba runs over dog poop, stop it immediately and do not let it continue the cleaning cycle. Because if that happens, it will spread the dog poop over every conceivable surface within its reach, resulting in a home that closely resembles a Jackson Pollock poop painting.”

The poopening continues.

What an interesting experience this must have been for Evie, the young puppy who had her poop scattered throughout the home. We can only wonder what she thought of the experience.

“It will be on your floorboards. It will be on your furniture legs. It will be on your carpets. It will be on your rugs. It will be on your kids’ toy boxes. If it’s near the floor, it will have poop on it. Those awesome wheels, which have a checkered surface for better traction, left 25-foot poop trails all over the house. Our lovable Roomba, who gets a careful cleaning every night, looked like it had been mudding. Yes, mudding – like what you do with a Jeep on a pipeline road. But in poop.”

We should all learn from this poor woman’s experience and never let our Roombas run over dog poop. Or we should purchase the latest models that are designed to avoid such hazards. If sharing this woman’s experience prevents even one Roomba from running over dog poop, it’ll have all been worth it.

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Source: The Verge/The Pooptastrophist