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One more: http://www.zephyrsf.com/agent/luba-muzichenko/buy/explore-neighborhoods

I used them in my kitchen and bottom stairwell.

Likes:
1) Incredibly, incredibly, incredibly, easy to install. A straightedge, a boxcutter, and a measuring tape is all you need. Knocked out the kitchen, including removal of the linoleum, in about six hours in my first time touching the stuff. No need to glue anything down, either.
2) Watertight and durable. No worries about using it in a kitchen or bathroom at all.
3) Warm & quiet
4) Looks nice.

Dislikes:
1) We went with the tile-look stuff, but the wood stuff doesn't look as nice in my opinion.
2) If you start the install, you need to keep going until you stop. If you leave the glue-strips exposed to air for more than a day, or if you screw up and have to undo a piece after it's stuck well, the glue won't really ever hold. I have to go through and gorilla glue some of the pieces at the bottom of our stairs because they keep popping up.
3) Seems to move around a bit with temperature / humidity, make sure you allot for some shifting along the walls.
4) Lots of waste in the install process, especially with the large tile planks.

Overall I'm quite pleased.

Wow, thanks for posting this, and thanks everyone for your comments! I think we're going to go with the FLOR tiles, they seem to be a good blend between price and durability.

I don't have any pictures of the rug in question, as the internet at home conveniently died, but here are our two dummies, Edison and Gus.

Otherwise, we do have a Dyson (I think it's pretty much required equipment when you have a dog that sheds this much,) but it's so powerful that we can't use it on the rug - it sucks the rug up and blocks the brush bar making a horrific ratcheting noise. We have the brush attachment, and it works fine on the furniture, but the stuff on the rug is in there way too deep.

The hair is a much worse deal than the rawhides, they get one of those every couple of days but very small ones, and they just kind of nibble on them over the course of a few days, then stash them somewhere. Recently they've been putting them outside in the snow for a few days, then bringing them back in - must be like putting a Snickers in the freezer for them. We also furminate them as often as we can, but it's impossible to keep up with the amount of fur they produce.

We'll also try the carpet rake and the carpet cleaner. Thanks again everyone!